Post by overhillmaster on Apr 21, 2017 22:19:59 GMT
Hi I was wondering if you guys have any screen shots or anything on the motion capture film they made before they tried to make Chris farley's version, then ultimately making Mike Myer's version.
Back when Jeffrey Katzenberg & Co. envisioned making this CG animated feature using motion capture technology. After a year and a half of R & D, a test for this version of "Shrek" was finally screened. The result -- or so I hear -- was a disaster.
"It looked terrible, it didn't work, it wasn't funny, and we didn't like it," Katzenberg recalled. So Dreamworks shut down production of this particular version of "Shrek" (Which reportedly layered the motion-capture CG that Dreamworks' artists had produced on top of live action background plates of these miniature fairy tale settings that the studio had filmed. Which -- in theory -- would have given this version of the film a very visual distinct look). The studio then turned to its production partners at PDI (Who were -- at the time -- still buttoning up production of Dreamworks' first CG feature, "Antz") and asked them to come help get the studio's next computer animated film back on track.
Back when Jeffrey Katzenberg & Co. envisioned making this CG animated feature using motion capture technology. After a year and a half of R & D, a test for this version of "Shrek" was finally screened. The result -- or so I hear -- was a disaster.
"It looked terrible, it didn't work, it wasn't funny, and we didn't like it," Katzenberg recalled. So Dreamworks shut down production of this particular version of "Shrek" (Which reportedly layered the motion-capture CG that Dreamworks' artists had produced on top of live action background plates of these miniature fairy tale settings that the studio had filmed. Which -- in theory -- would have given this version of the film a very visual distinct look). The studio then turned to its production partners at PDI (Who were -- at the time -- still buttoning up production of Dreamworks' first CG feature, "Antz") and asked them to come help get the studio's next computer animated film back on track.
