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Summer (well for North America and Europe anyway) is the perfect season for big movie releases, and 2010 was the big come-back for animated films. The latest animated releases Shrek Forever After and Toy Story 3 were hugely successful at the box office, and what a lot of people don’t know is that taking them to the big screen is not as easy as it seems. Making animated movies requires a lot of effort and technological innovation, which not only takes a lot of time, but also costs a lot.

To give you an idea of the complexity of the process, technicians working on the second part of Shrek worked for months developing the animation that made it possible for the characters to have long hair.  Things like recreating a forest or giving movement to the characters takes months to be accomplished. For Shrek the third, Dreamworks had to assign two animators per scene, when usually only one person per scene is required.

The software that most animation programs utilize is Linux, and the technicians that are part of this creative process have skills in 3D modeling, Maya, and Linux commercial package for 3D design.

So if you thought that computer-related careers were boring, maybe you should reconsider and explore this ever-expanding industry!

Tags: Animated Movies, Computer Software, Linux, Shrek Ever After, Toy Story 3