Shrek 2 How-To

mblase writes "Animation World Magazine has an article online about some of the technical hurdles Dreamworks Animation had to overcome in making "Shrek 2". With November's "The Incredibles" being Pixar's first movie to feature an all-human (er, superhuman) cast of characters, it's interesting to watch how these two studios push each other to the limits of computer animation."

Comments

Re:State of the art?

[bonch]

Shrek looked good to me. I don't know what to tell you. What does Pixar have? Little fish, plastic toys, and hairy monsters. Finding Nemo wasn't a good animated movie because it was detailed in any way (it was mostly just water, for pete's sake).

Shrek 2 had more believable humans than any Pixar movie has had. And they had to scale back Fiona's realism in the first film because she looked too realistic and didn't fit in with the cartoonish style.

I know there is major Pixar fanboyism going on, but come on, give credit where credit is due. The more good CG animation out there, the better, I say.

Can't anyone make a DIFFERENT cgi movie?

[ZipR]

I haven't seen Shrek 2, but from what I've read and heard, it's very much like the original, which is a lot like Toy Story, Ice Age, Finding Nemo, etc. Why do all big cgi movies have to follow the same basic comic plot. I'm wowed by the animation, but bored by the stories of these flicks.

ugh

[shokk]

Could there be a bigger ripoff of the Fantastic Four than The Incredibles? Originality indeed.