Ain’t It Cool News brings the latest news on George Miller’s animated film Happy Feet, which Miller hopes to animate with photo-realistic CGI animation. However, Animal Logic, the special effects company commissioned to bring the project to life, has never handled this type of task before. Still, the company has spent the last eighteen months building digital models, sets, and pipelines, in addition to many other things, in order to make Miller’s vision of photo-realistic CGI penguins a reality, only to discover an important, overlooked detail: photo-realistic penguins can’t act.
Happy Feet in hot water?