FLUSHED AWAY, The final collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, which also marked the latters first 3D foray, is available on DVD Feb. 20, 2007 (Paramount Home Ent., $29.99)...
FLUSHED AWAY, The final collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, which also marked the latters first 3D foray, is available on DVD Feb. 20, 2007 (Paramount Home Ent., $29.99). Learning how to adopt more of a stop motion character performance style within a photoreal 3D world was the biggest challenge for DreamWorks animators on FLUSHED AWAY, the wild comedy in which upper crust London Rat, Roddy (voiced by Hugh Jackman), gets lost in the unfamiliar rodent sewer world below with the resourceful Rita (voiced by Kate Winslet). Directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell, with Simon Otto and Jason Spencer-Galsworthy serving as supervising animators, Brad Blackbourn and Frank Passingham comprising the virtual cinematography team and Wendy Rogers serving as vfx supervisor.
Bonus features include:
* Commentary by Bowers and Fell* Two Animated Slug Songs* From Clay to CG: A Technical Journey* Jammy Dodger Fly-Thru* Featurette: Meet the Cast* Animator's Gallery* Behind the Scenes Interactive Tour* DWA Jukebox* Trailers: BEE MOVIE, SHREK THE THIRD* FLUSHED AWAY Juke Box* Build-A-Slug* Learn to Draw Roddy* The Music of FLUSHED AWAY* Games: A Maze of Pipes* Maze of Pipes* DVD-Rom: FLUSHED AWAY Underground Adventure
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
