Animation. Shrek was originally set up to be a live-action/CG animation hybrid with background plate miniature sets and the main characters composited into the scene as motion-captured computer graphics, using an ExpertVision Hires Falcon 10 camera system to capture and apply realistic human movement to the characters.
Although the movie was originally supposed to be animated with traditional 2D animation, Shrek was ultimately created using computer animation. Overall, the look was much different from what audiences were used to and made the film stand out from the typical Disney movies being released at that time.
Shrek is a fictional ogre character created by American author William Steig. Shrek is the protagonist of the book of the same name, a series of films by DreamWorks Animation, as well as a musical. The name "Shrek" is derived from the German word Schreck, meaning "fright" or "terror".
The Very Different Version Of Shrek We Never Got To See
What is Shrek's accent?
In the case of the Shrek franchise, Shrek's Scottish accent was a much-needed addition to the film for character background, historical depth, and individuality.
Shrek was actually based on a real person named Maurice Tillet. He was a French wrestler who married an extremely beautiful woman named Olga. Maurice developed a disease called Acromegaly which made his bones keep growing and growing.
The box office run of Sinbad flopped causing a loss of $125 million for DreamWorks Animation. When speaking of the disappointment, Katzenberg commented, "I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past."
The studio originally made some traditionally animated films, as well as three stop-motion co-productions with Aardman Animations, but now exclusively relies on computer animation.
Why didn't Disney ever sue DreamWorks for Shrek? Shrek was based on a book. Very hard to sue a screenplay based on a book. Shrek is also a parody of the classic fairy tale which accords it even more protection.
Émile Eugène Jean Louis Cohl (French: [kol]; né Courtet; 4 January 1857 – 20 January 1938) was a French caricaturist of the Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon".
In the 1990s, CGI masters used all their know-how to get the most out of the technology available at the time and released groundbreaking titles such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), Toy Story (1995), and The Matrix (1995).
3D animation, also referred to as CGI, or just CG, is made by generating images using computers. That series of images are the frames of an animated shot.
DreamWorks Animation's first movie was Antz, released two months before A Bug's Life, and thus this studio was born into incessant comparison to Pixar's output, molded by it, becoming the snarky and sarcastic foil to its competitor's earnestness.
Starting with Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), DreamWorks Animation released all its feature films in 3-D, or stereoscopic, format. Shrek (2001), a DreamWorks Animation film based on magazine cartoonist William Steig's book about an eponymous lovable ogre, won the first Academy Award for best animated feature.
Katzenberg was so angry that he not only put up Dreamworks SKG (with Spielberg and Geffen) but he made Shrek to make fun of Disney. Shrek has many jokes at Disney's expense such as the villain being based on Eisner, the exploitation of fairy tale characters, Disney's depiction of princesses and others.
The prospects of a new Shrek movie starting production in 2023 strongly suggest that Shrek 5 won't hit the big screens until late 2024 or 2025 at the earliest. During the franchise's peak, a fresh Shrek film was typically released every three years.
Films made by neither Disney nor Pixar have broken through and won the award six times. DreamWorks won the award once for Shrek, a film produced in house, and again for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, a co-production with indie studio Aardman Animations.
Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was a commercial success, grossing $813 million worldwide on a budget of $160 million, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2007. It was nominated for the Best Animated Film at the 61st British Academy Film Awards.
Shrek was the first genuine hit that Dreamworks Animation had produced, after films like Antz, The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado (despite having their fans now) failed to really excite audiences at the time. Shrek helped to establish Dreamworks as one of the real competitors to Pixar in the 2000s.
As of July 2022, the four biggest movie flops of all time were Disney productions. "Turning Red" (2022), "Jungle Cruise" (2021), "Mars Needs Moms" (2011), and "Mulan" (2020) recorded losses of more than 140 million U.S. dollars at the global box office.
Ultimately DreamWorks approved Myers' choice to go Scottish due to the accent being perceived as funnier by American audiences, and this meant not only another re-record but re-animating every scene that included the titular character.
