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GUESS WHO’S COME
TO DINNER?
Fiona’s parents, the King and Queen of Far Far Away (voiced by John Cleese and Julie Andrews) are not altogether delighted by their daughter’s new friends.
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So animated characters can have cosmetic surgery too?
They do, yes. And it costs a lot!
How about you? Did you start with traditional, hand-drawn animation?
Yes, I did.
Did you find it difficult to switch to working with computers?
It does take a while. The comparison I make is, doing hand-drawn animation, you’re drawing with a pencil and paper right in front of you. I remember at the beginning when I was starting with computer animation, it felt like you were holding a 10-foot-long pencil, like a broomstick, and you were trying to draw on the wall from the back of the room.
Did you have to relearn everything?
Yes, you have to adjust your way of thinking in terms of doing animation on the computer. In a way, you have to think about timing and curve more than you would in drawing. Also you have to think about rotation in order to get certain poses.
Is there ever a sense of having lost something? With hand-drawn 2-D animation, you can make a character do almost anything, like Looney Tunes with Wile E Coyote or whoever. Now, with 3-D, you have to make people move like they really move.
I think it depends on the style. If we want to make it look like a Warner Bros cartoon with a lot of squash and stretch, we can do that. It has to be determined before we start the movie, before the production starts. We have to say ‘OK, this is the style that we would like this movie to be’. And if that’s the direction, then we would set up the character to do it that way. But with Shrek, it was decided that we wanted to go with this style: not a lot of squash and stretch and not a lot of cartoony moves. Then we just follow this path and make our animation that way. With Shrek 1 and 2, this was the style and so we didn’t do squash and stretch, but it doesn’t mean we cannot do it. It’s just not the right thing for this movie right now.
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SHREK 2
PDI/DreamWorks
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Prod: Aron Warner, David Lipman, John H Williams; Exec prod: Jeffrey Katzenberg; Dir: Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon; Scr: Andrew Adamson, Joe Stillman, J David Stem, David N Weiss, from a story by Adamson, based on the book by William Steig; Prod des: Guillaume Aretos; Ed: Michael Andrews, Sim Evan-Jones; Vis f/x super: Ken Bielenberg; Supervising animator: Raman Hui, Tim Cheung, James Baxter; Mus: Harry Gregson Williams; Mus super: Chris Douridas.
With the voices of Mike Myers (Shrek), Eddie Murphy (Donkey), Cameron Diaz (Princess Fiona), Julie Andrews (Queen Lillian), Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots), John Cleese (King Harold), Rupert Everett (Prince Charming), Jennifer Saunders (Fairy Godmother).
International distribution: DreamWorks/UIP
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