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Happy feat: digital effects studio Animal Logic choreographs a new pipeline to create its first animated CG feature.

Computer Graphics World

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Oh, those irresistible penguins! They can't help but charm as they shuffle, toboggan, swim, fall, tumble, huddle together, and waddle across the ice, the adults all dressed up in their jazzy tuxedos and the children as fuzzy as a stuffed toy. But there's one thing penguins can't do. Penguins can't dance.

In the penguin world, this isn't a problem, but for the Sydney, Australia-based animation and visual effects studio Animal Logic, making digital penguins dance became a four-year obsession. And dancing was but one tangle the studio had to rumble through to create Warner Bros.' musical-adventure-comedy Happy Feet.

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