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It's all about Cody Maverick, an inspiring surfer, who is the subject of a surfing documentary and the star of Sony Picture Animation's Surf's Up.
If surfing were a religion, the first two commandments would be: "Live in the moment," and "Have as good a time as you can."
So, if you were filming a documentary about surfers, even if those surfers were penguins and not people, you'd want to capture that spontaneity. To do that using animation, in which every frame is handcrafted and precisely controlled, would be ... well ... radical, dude.
Yet, that's exactly what the directors and producers at Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) did, thanks to a crew ...