1 00:00:08,270 --> 00:00:11,342 Bernie Mac. I love Bernie. 2 00:00:13,510 --> 00:00:17,981 We were able to use Ben Stiller's son for some of these vocalizations 3 00:00:18,070 --> 00:00:20,710 of the Baby Alex lion. 4 00:00:24,030 --> 00:00:28,024 Remember the rattle used to be a zebra rattle. We actually... 5 00:00:28,110 --> 00:00:30,829 And Baby Alex bit the butt of the zebra rattle and the dad said, 6 00:00:30,910 --> 00:00:33,106 "That's a bad habit." 7 00:00:33,190 --> 00:00:37,070 But it seemed more appropriate for the story that it was a lion rattle. 8 00:00:37,150 --> 00:00:39,824 Yeah. We wanted to stay away from food issues. 9 00:00:40,990 --> 00:00:45,826 Setting up this idea that, just like lions in the real world, 10 00:00:45,910 --> 00:00:50,347 in this world you have to sort of be tough and fight your way to the top. 11 00:00:50,430 --> 00:00:53,627 It's not a Manifest Destiny situation here. 12 00:00:56,070 --> 00:00:57,629 There's Alec Baldwin's character. 13 00:01:05,270 --> 00:01:08,979 Very much a coincidence that they have the same hairstyle. 14 00:01:14,190 --> 00:01:16,386 Actually, a lot of Baby Alex, 15 00:01:16,470 --> 00:01:21,306 it is Ben's son, Quinn, but also Mark's son, Declan. 16 00:01:21,390 --> 00:01:23,984 - Yeah. - Baby Declan. 17 00:01:24,070 --> 00:01:27,540 We went about 50 times to record the six lines that he did. 18 00:01:27,630 --> 00:01:29,223 No, he does a great job. 19 00:01:29,790 --> 00:01:32,384 He's got a real future. 20 00:01:32,470 --> 00:01:34,825 I hear he's turned into quite the diva. 21 00:01:34,950 --> 00:01:37,385 He was asking about his credit. 22 00:01:37,470 --> 00:01:40,223 He's three years old, asking about his credit. 23 00:01:41,630 --> 00:01:46,659 We thought this was a great opportunity to just set up the story from the start. 24 00:01:46,750 --> 00:01:50,345 That's the benefit of a sequel, 'cause, you know, 25 00:01:50,630 --> 00:01:52,326 a lot of people are familiar with the characters, 26 00:01:52,350 --> 00:01:55,627 so we could jump right into story, which is great. 27 00:01:56,070 --> 00:01:59,461 I think this beginning really helps the story, just seeing 28 00:01:59,550 --> 00:02:02,303 what happened to Baby Alex and how it impacted his father 29 00:02:02,390 --> 00:02:06,941 sets it up for the rest of the movie. It really makes it powerful at the end. 30 00:02:09,070 --> 00:02:12,062 We also spent a lot of time on the music in that opening part, 31 00:02:12,150 --> 00:02:15,984 how to make it feel different from Lion King, that other movie 32 00:02:16,070 --> 00:02:18,459 that shall never be mentioned, in Africa. 33 00:02:21,470 --> 00:02:24,428 I like that hunter's voice. It's really good. 34 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:26,660 - Eric. - Such a mean man. 35 00:02:29,870 --> 00:02:33,579 This grass was a huge challenge for the film. Millions of blades 36 00:02:33,670 --> 00:02:37,061 blowing in the wind and moving when characters walk through it. 37 00:02:37,150 --> 00:02:40,222 The beginning of the film, we didn't think we could do it. 38 00:02:40,350 --> 00:02:44,230 But the guys figured out some technology, and between our effects 39 00:02:44,310 --> 00:02:47,905 and lighting department, we were able to create massive fields 40 00:02:47,990 --> 00:02:49,583 of savannah grass. 41 00:03:03,870 --> 00:03:07,909 This is the intense moment of the film. We sometimes screen this to kids, 42 00:03:07,990 --> 00:03:11,779 and it can be really a little bit disturbing for them. 43 00:03:11,870 --> 00:03:13,941 - Again... - Right there. 44 00:03:14,030 --> 00:03:17,148 Half-dozen versions of that ear, tried to get it to be clear, 45 00:03:17,230 --> 00:03:19,790 - but not too gross. - Right. 46 00:03:19,870 --> 00:03:24,899 The blood had been fluorescent at one time. Just really bright. 47 00:03:24,990 --> 00:03:27,379 This is where some kids cry in the theater. 48 00:03:27,470 --> 00:03:32,829 We debated whether or not to reveal that Zuba was okay or not here. 49 00:03:33,070 --> 00:03:36,426 We thought that might have been too sad. 50 00:03:36,550 --> 00:03:40,259 Yeah. In retrospect, it seemed like the right thing to do. 51 00:03:40,350 --> 00:03:43,388 Here's the magic of the movies. He comes from Kenya, 52 00:03:43,470 --> 00:03:46,588 floats in the ocean and will make his way to New York. 53 00:03:46,670 --> 00:03:48,946 - It could happen. - It could. 54 00:03:51,190 --> 00:03:55,149 It's fun. When we were figuring out the timeline of when this was happening, 55 00:03:55,230 --> 00:03:56,823 it was in the '70s. 56 00:03:56,910 --> 00:04:01,859 We just thought it would be appropriate to have the Twin Towers in there. 57 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:05,147 But some people thought it was disturbing to have the Twin Towers, 58 00:04:05,230 --> 00:04:06,846 even though, historically, they'd be there. 59 00:04:06,870 --> 00:04:09,339 There was a debate about that. 60 00:04:09,430 --> 00:04:11,660 I felt it was disturbing if we hadn't had it. 61 00:04:11,750 --> 00:04:14,390 It's like rewriting history. 62 00:04:14,710 --> 00:04:18,590 Just to prove it was in the '70s, earlier, in the last sequence, 63 00:04:18,670 --> 00:04:22,504 the characters actually had sideburns. Just to make it feel legit. 64 00:04:28,990 --> 00:04:31,220 A natural performer, Alex. 65 00:04:32,110 --> 00:04:35,626 Gets to the zoo and he's right at home. 66 00:04:38,550 --> 00:04:42,384 This is the first song that will.I.am worked on with Hans Zimmer 67 00:04:42,470 --> 00:04:45,110 using some themes from the first film. 68 00:04:47,550 --> 00:04:51,225 That's Willow as Gloria. Jada's daughter. 69 00:05:00,150 --> 00:05:04,109 The butterfly maneuver, which comes back later. 70 00:05:07,390 --> 00:05:09,620 It was nice to revisit the zoo, 71 00:05:09,750 --> 00:05:14,267 and have an opportunity, in this movie, to set up where they came from. 72 00:05:14,350 --> 00:05:16,990 Good thing we still had the set lying around. 73 00:05:17,070 --> 00:05:18,185 So to speak. 74 00:05:30,270 --> 00:05:33,069 We reused some footage from the first film. 75 00:05:33,190 --> 00:05:36,945 - Give it a TV look. - That's Meredith Vieira 76 00:05:37,030 --> 00:05:39,021 from The Today Show, which I love. 77 00:05:39,110 --> 00:05:40,589 - Yeah. - Watch every day. 78 00:05:40,670 --> 00:05:42,707 Setting up Nana here. 79 00:05:42,830 --> 00:05:45,060 "Previously, on 24." 80 00:05:46,470 --> 00:05:49,030 This is a good opportunity, even if you didn't see the movie, 81 00:05:49,110 --> 00:05:52,819 we kind of just replayed a bit... The first movie, if you didn't see, 82 00:05:53,550 --> 00:05:55,700 it would just keep people up to speed. 83 00:05:57,670 --> 00:06:00,822 - Al Roker. - Lesley Stahl was the other one. 84 00:06:00,910 --> 00:06:02,344 60 Minutes. 85 00:06:08,470 --> 00:06:12,907 The song that drove parents crazy is coming up soon. 86 00:06:15,390 --> 00:06:18,542 We thought it'd be fun to have this NASA moment 87 00:06:18,630 --> 00:06:20,223 with them going up in the elevator. 88 00:06:20,310 --> 00:06:23,621 Guillermo Navarro came in. We should talk about him. 89 00:06:23,710 --> 00:06:25,781 He helped us with our cinematography. 90 00:06:25,910 --> 00:06:29,983 This is a shot he devised. He thought it was important to set up 91 00:06:30,190 --> 00:06:33,660 the world and where we left off and... 92 00:06:33,790 --> 00:06:37,499 An excruciating shot for the people who had to light it. Mark, I don't know... 93 00:06:37,630 --> 00:06:41,669 For a year. I think this is the most expensive shot in the movie. 94 00:06:41,750 --> 00:06:43,070 And it's a great shot, though. 95 00:06:48,750 --> 00:06:52,584 When we play this with the kids, they start getting up and dancing. 96 00:06:52,670 --> 00:06:55,389 It's great. This song is like 97 00:06:55,470 --> 00:06:58,269 - candy to these kids. - There's the duty-free shop 98 00:06:58,350 --> 00:07:01,661 in the background, if you see it. Buy coconuts and masks there. 99 00:07:07,510 --> 00:07:11,504 We thought it'd be fun to use that plane that we set up in the first movie. 100 00:07:11,590 --> 00:07:14,946 Originally, it was Amelia Earhart's lost plane. 101 00:07:16,710 --> 00:07:22,023 It turned into a Madagascar tour plane, right? In French. 102 00:07:36,430 --> 00:07:38,626 Sacha Baron Cohen is King Julien. 103 00:07:38,710 --> 00:07:43,420 A lot of improvisation for us, like this little song there... 104 00:07:43,510 --> 00:07:47,788 We can use about 10% of his improv. We want to get a PG rating. 105 00:07:57,630 --> 00:08:02,147 I was just thinking in watching this, going back to the beginning, 106 00:08:02,430 --> 00:08:05,548 we'd be watching it in boards, a long time ago. 107 00:08:05,630 --> 00:08:08,304 But thinking about Rob Koo, our head of story, 108 00:08:08,750 --> 00:08:12,061 especially the opening and all that, but through all of this 109 00:08:12,150 --> 00:08:13,886 and how it developed. Talking about Guillermo, 110 00:08:13,910 --> 00:08:16,823 but how it all starts with those boards. 111 00:08:21,190 --> 00:08:23,989 Yeah. For those of you who don't know, we start with drawings. 112 00:08:24,110 --> 00:08:27,740 We draw thousands and thousands of drawings to put the film up, 113 00:08:28,230 --> 00:08:32,781 and watch it like a movie before we do any animation. 114 00:08:33,510 --> 00:08:34,726 We really count on these artists 115 00:08:34,750 --> 00:08:37,981 to kind of help with our cinematography, our story. 116 00:08:38,070 --> 00:08:40,505 They come up with a lot of gags and lines as well. 117 00:08:47,190 --> 00:08:49,864 Andy Richter as Mort. He's so funny. 118 00:08:50,870 --> 00:08:54,261 Doesn't seem like airport security will change in the next 20 years, 119 00:08:54,390 --> 00:08:57,428 so that gag might hold up. 120 00:08:57,830 --> 00:09:00,299 We always joked about the world's biggest slingshot, 121 00:09:00,390 --> 00:09:03,382 since this is the second... "Madagascar Space Program." 122 00:09:03,510 --> 00:09:05,660 - That line got cut. - It did get cut. 123 00:09:20,630 --> 00:09:25,545 Great effects work on this plane from Scott Peterson and his team. 124 00:09:27,750 --> 00:09:30,310 All through this scene and coming up with the plane crash, 125 00:09:30,390 --> 00:09:34,224 just an incredible amount of work to get all this smoke 126 00:09:34,310 --> 00:09:39,146 and props and pieces of metal falling off the plane, that sort of thing. 127 00:09:39,270 --> 00:09:41,580 Vines right there. Huge effort. 128 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:52,068 - Great sound, as that plane falls. - Skywalker guys. 129 00:09:52,150 --> 00:09:54,949 That's a great joke. Always gets a huge laugh. 130 00:09:55,030 --> 00:09:57,670 - I love the one guy that falls off. - Yeah. 131 00:09:57,750 --> 00:10:00,629 We could have ended the movie there. 132 00:10:00,910 --> 00:10:03,982 That was the end of the movie for Mort for a while. 133 00:10:04,070 --> 00:10:06,380 - Yeah. - We just loved Andy so much. 134 00:10:06,470 --> 00:10:07,904 Loved Mort. 135 00:10:08,710 --> 00:10:12,499 We used to have this dream Alex would have about being back in New York 136 00:10:12,590 --> 00:10:15,548 and being a nightmare, and he would be waking up from it here. 137 00:10:15,630 --> 00:10:19,589 It ended up being cut and it seemed to work okay with the lightning. 138 00:10:50,990 --> 00:10:53,709 This was a tough scene 'cause we'd had fun action, 139 00:10:53,790 --> 00:10:56,350 and we needed to get out some information. 140 00:10:56,470 --> 00:11:01,340 We used to have dozens of different versions of this conversation. 141 00:11:04,350 --> 00:11:06,068 I always liked the tourist skeletons. 142 00:11:06,190 --> 00:11:08,625 They didn't really do much to clean out the plane. 143 00:11:08,710 --> 00:11:11,828 All these old tourists from the Madagascar tour. 144 00:11:34,310 --> 00:11:36,699 That was a great example of what the animators do 145 00:11:36,790 --> 00:11:39,304 to capture the essence of David Schwimmer, 146 00:11:39,430 --> 00:11:42,821 especially when he's looking awkward and gets up and leaves. 147 00:11:42,910 --> 00:11:45,789 It helps to videotape him while they're recording, 148 00:11:45,870 --> 00:11:49,864 but the animators are great at caricaturing these expressions. 149 00:11:52,550 --> 00:11:56,464 I felt that was one place where Rex Grignon, head of animation, 150 00:11:56,550 --> 00:11:59,019 pushed more on this. It's not quite as... 151 00:11:59,110 --> 00:12:03,149 We don't have as much of that, like, stretchy, kind of goofy, 152 00:12:03,230 --> 00:12:07,383 but we put more into acting. It's much more subtle. 153 00:12:07,510 --> 00:12:10,263 - Don't you think? - Yeah. It was great to push the nuance. 154 00:12:14,710 --> 00:12:18,590 It's one of the things we were able to do with this film, 155 00:12:18,670 --> 00:12:20,183 since we knew the characters 156 00:12:20,270 --> 00:12:22,510 after working with them for five years on the first film. 157 00:12:22,550 --> 00:12:26,987 We knew we could go to deeper, richer, more emotional places with them. 158 00:12:27,070 --> 00:12:29,346 It put demands on the animators 159 00:12:29,430 --> 00:12:33,264 to, at times, really get that subtlety 160 00:12:33,350 --> 00:12:37,025 and really show what's going on deep inside our characters. 161 00:12:37,910 --> 00:12:40,026 Some of those emotional moments. 162 00:12:40,110 --> 00:12:43,421 We're coming into the plane crash, which is the first sequence 163 00:12:43,510 --> 00:12:46,901 we put into production. Tom, you originally boarded this, 164 00:12:46,990 --> 00:12:51,029 and it's close to what you did three years ago. 165 00:12:51,110 --> 00:12:56,139 It was one of the hardest sequences, and our first sequence, which was good, 166 00:12:56,230 --> 00:12:58,187 but a challenge getting it through. 167 00:12:58,270 --> 00:13:00,341 Bold move. 168 00:13:00,470 --> 00:13:02,461 The effects work in this is just fantastic. 169 00:13:02,550 --> 00:13:04,029 That's what makes it. 170 00:13:05,630 --> 00:13:10,943 The Skipper is your alter ego. Do you have a little doll at home? 171 00:13:11,030 --> 00:13:14,386 Yes. The doll is great. That was the first scene with the doll. 172 00:13:14,470 --> 00:13:17,940 And I think Mireille wanted to... 173 00:13:18,070 --> 00:13:21,859 Eventually, we named it Lola, after the Copacabana song 174 00:13:21,990 --> 00:13:23,264 at the end of the movie. 175 00:13:26,310 --> 00:13:29,541 Amazing shot here. All these objects floating around. 176 00:13:29,630 --> 00:13:31,382 Big challenge for the effects guys. 177 00:13:37,430 --> 00:13:41,139 This is one of the scenes where we actually got Ben and Chris together 178 00:13:41,230 --> 00:13:43,949 and recorded them performing this scene. 179 00:13:44,270 --> 00:13:48,059 So it was really funny to just sit back and watch them play off each other. 180 00:13:48,150 --> 00:13:50,869 They did more iPod humor with Marty saying, 181 00:13:50,950 --> 00:13:55,342 "I had 10,015 songs on that thing." 182 00:13:55,670 --> 00:13:58,742 Alex would say, "Neil Diamond didn't write 10,000 songs." 183 00:13:59,790 --> 00:14:02,259 "So now you're dissing Neil Diamond?" 184 00:14:04,630 --> 00:14:08,100 I think it was also an area where Guillermo Navarro, who came in, 185 00:14:08,190 --> 00:14:11,820 really helped us do some cinema on that. 186 00:14:12,150 --> 00:14:15,268 It's really fun, we had layout people. We just shot it live-action. 187 00:14:15,350 --> 00:14:18,103 We had some layout artists sitting on top of chairs. 188 00:14:18,190 --> 00:14:19,339 He'd move the camera around. 189 00:14:19,430 --> 00:14:22,548 I think he helped us push to make it more dynamic. 190 00:14:23,190 --> 00:14:26,785 Dumped the couch on its back so the animators were in the couch 191 00:14:26,870 --> 00:14:29,464 looking up into the ceiling, shaking the couch. 192 00:14:29,550 --> 00:14:31,746 It was very low-rent, low-tech stuff. 193 00:14:32,990 --> 00:14:35,903 But it really helped us in a very quick and inexpensive way 194 00:14:35,990 --> 00:14:40,188 to find ways to shoot the sequence, keep it dynamic 195 00:14:40,270 --> 00:14:44,264 and not get locked into standard, cliché setups. 196 00:14:45,230 --> 00:14:49,144 I miss a line there. It says, "Kiss it like you kiss your sister." 197 00:14:49,230 --> 00:14:52,780 - Tom, you also used to say... - "Like you're kissing the pope's ring." 198 00:14:52,870 --> 00:14:56,147 "Kissing the pope's ring." I love that. We had to cut it out for timing. 199 00:14:56,230 --> 00:14:58,028 It was a great line. 200 00:14:58,110 --> 00:15:00,386 Being a good Catholic boy, I like that one. 201 00:15:09,750 --> 00:15:12,503 Just to mention the clouds here. We took a trip to Africa. 202 00:15:12,590 --> 00:15:15,343 We realised clouds would be two-thirds of our set. 203 00:15:15,430 --> 00:15:19,503 So we had to come in and talk to the smart people 204 00:15:19,590 --> 00:15:22,104 about how to build the clouds, 205 00:15:22,470 --> 00:15:25,781 make them three-dimensional so we could light them in particular ways. 206 00:15:31,310 --> 00:15:34,029 Remember Kendal Cronkhite, our production designer's, 207 00:15:34,110 --> 00:15:37,341 early vis-Dev on this, the visual development on this? 208 00:15:37,430 --> 00:15:39,706 Remember how graphic... Beautiful paintings 209 00:15:39,790 --> 00:15:44,705 of very, very graphic trees. We wanted this to look not... 210 00:15:44,790 --> 00:15:47,350 We didn't want it to tip off that we were in Africa. 211 00:15:47,470 --> 00:15:49,746 - More ambiguous. - We wanted to be ambiguous in this. 212 00:15:49,830 --> 00:15:53,710 We hid the horizon line. Kendal kept it moody. 213 00:16:03,790 --> 00:16:06,987 There's Ben ad-libbing, which brought about that 214 00:16:07,070 --> 00:16:09,505 "69 months" gag throughout the film. 215 00:16:19,590 --> 00:16:23,788 When the switchblade came up, too, we wondered if we could get away with it. 216 00:16:23,870 --> 00:16:28,262 We were prepared to do a switchblade comb in case we couldn't. 217 00:16:28,390 --> 00:16:29,824 But a switchblade's fine. 218 00:16:38,350 --> 00:16:40,580 There's so many little details that are great. 219 00:16:40,670 --> 00:16:43,184 You can look at this endlessly, controls in the cockpit 220 00:16:43,270 --> 00:16:48,629 or the air mask that Melman's breathing through. It's in French. 221 00:16:49,750 --> 00:16:51,900 - On the air bag... - The little guy with a beret. 222 00:16:51,990 --> 00:16:52,990 Yeah. 223 00:16:57,790 --> 00:17:01,784 There's even an artist creating Marty's drink. Making sure it looks... 224 00:17:01,870 --> 00:17:05,101 Bumps around and the cubes are floating correctly. 225 00:17:05,190 --> 00:17:08,706 You get nothing for free in these movies. Always an artist behind it. 226 00:17:15,030 --> 00:17:18,705 Bill Winter Safaris. There's our tribute to Bill Winter. 227 00:17:18,990 --> 00:17:21,948 He was our guide in Africa, when we went to Africa. 228 00:17:23,070 --> 00:17:26,301 We took all the creative leads from the film. 229 00:17:26,390 --> 00:17:28,028 Jeffrey Katzenberg said, 230 00:17:28,110 --> 00:17:29,966 "If you're gonna make a movie that takes place in Africa, 231 00:17:29,990 --> 00:17:34,541 "you've got to go and see it." And he happened to have a plane. 232 00:17:34,710 --> 00:17:37,907 He took us there. We had a great trip. Ten days... 233 00:17:37,990 --> 00:17:41,142 - It was amazing. Unbelievable. - and nine reserves. 234 00:17:42,230 --> 00:17:46,861 When Alex was chasing the jeep, the shot seemed a little bit soft focus. 235 00:17:46,950 --> 00:17:49,021 Could we fix that, you guys? 236 00:17:49,630 --> 00:17:54,864 I'm keeping a file of notes we've gotten since the movie's come out. 237 00:17:54,950 --> 00:17:57,908 This is another scene we talked about. Was it too violent? 238 00:17:57,990 --> 00:18:01,779 Was it over the top? What really helps here is the music. 239 00:18:01,950 --> 00:18:04,510 The music makes it so silly and ridiculous 240 00:18:04,590 --> 00:18:07,742 that I don't think anyone's questioned that since it came out. 241 00:18:08,110 --> 00:18:12,149 - Yeah, go ahead. - We did that polka theme for Nana. 242 00:18:12,230 --> 00:18:15,222 We could do covers in polka. That was her music. 243 00:18:15,310 --> 00:18:17,699 We originally had the Star Trek fight music in there. 244 00:18:19,910 --> 00:18:22,584 If you didn't get the joke, seemed really dark. 245 00:18:25,390 --> 00:18:29,349 The thing is, you can beat Nana up, as long as she never gets hurt 246 00:18:29,430 --> 00:18:31,023 and she always wins. 247 00:18:42,310 --> 00:18:45,621 We're just about to reveal the beautiful... 248 00:18:45,710 --> 00:18:49,908 We called it the Jurassic Park shot. Our first reveal of the watering hole. 249 00:18:49,990 --> 00:18:53,381 The is where the art team did an amazing job. 250 00:18:53,470 --> 00:18:57,782 You can really see that they went to Africa and took it all in. 251 00:18:57,910 --> 00:18:59,821 I think this is such a beautiful shot. 252 00:18:59,990 --> 00:19:03,267 Mireille, you always wanted to make sure we did this right. 253 00:19:03,350 --> 00:19:06,024 To make sure we landed the moment here. 254 00:19:07,750 --> 00:19:10,503 - Well, it's like landing in Oz. - Yeah. 255 00:19:11,470 --> 00:19:12,744 We always... 256 00:19:13,870 --> 00:19:18,740 Here's the first sighting of our crowds, which is an incredible task for us. 257 00:19:18,830 --> 00:19:21,344 We didn't know if we could do this. 258 00:19:21,430 --> 00:19:25,310 Our crowd scene did four times the amount of crowds 259 00:19:25,390 --> 00:19:27,427 we've ever done in a movie before. 260 00:19:27,510 --> 00:19:29,865 They did an amazing job, Justin and his team. 261 00:19:34,830 --> 00:19:38,107 On top of the fact that you've got thousands of animals, 262 00:19:38,190 --> 00:19:41,979 you've got animals of all different sizes, some are on two legs, 263 00:19:42,070 --> 00:19:44,823 some are on four. Managing those extras 264 00:19:44,910 --> 00:19:48,699 and making sure they're not crashing into each other is a monumental task. 265 00:19:48,990 --> 00:19:50,788 - Putting them in grass. - Yeah. 266 00:19:51,790 --> 00:19:57,468 Here's a piece where a lot of the animators used to film themselves 267 00:19:57,630 --> 00:19:59,286 doing the line and show it to the director 268 00:19:59,310 --> 00:20:01,950 so they'd have a quick feedback on the acting. 269 00:20:02,390 --> 00:20:04,904 One of the animators, Carlos, did a few of these shots. 270 00:20:04,990 --> 00:20:08,346 Every time I see these shots, I see Carlos acting them out. 271 00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:16,103 It's also a testament to Ben Stiller and just his creativeness, 272 00:20:16,190 --> 00:20:18,067 - ad-libbing all this stuff. - Yeah. 273 00:20:21,150 --> 00:20:24,063 - That's Fergie. - Yeah. Fergie is the hippo. 274 00:20:24,870 --> 00:20:26,349 Little cameo. 275 00:20:34,070 --> 00:20:37,665 So, now, we're not in the '70s any more. So no more sideburns. 276 00:20:43,190 --> 00:20:45,989 Then the coughing that Bernie had done there, he did cough 277 00:20:46,070 --> 00:20:48,823 when he tried to roar. It just seemed fitting for the character. 278 00:20:48,910 --> 00:20:52,790 - So we actually put it in. - We searched and searched 279 00:20:52,870 --> 00:20:56,545 for the right voice for Zuba, Alex's father here. 280 00:20:56,630 --> 00:21:00,260 And it was really tough, because we needed this conflict 281 00:21:00,350 --> 00:21:03,866 between father and son. But we're not making The Great Santini. 282 00:21:03,950 --> 00:21:07,864 We wanted him to still be warm and for audiences to know 283 00:21:07,950 --> 00:21:09,748 that he still loved his son. 284 00:21:10,430 --> 00:21:13,104 Ultimately, you hope that they come together again. 285 00:21:13,710 --> 00:21:16,350 Then when we found Bernie, he was just perfect. 286 00:21:17,590 --> 00:21:19,945 - And Sherri Shepherd, too. - Yeah. 287 00:21:20,590 --> 00:21:23,104 - Yes. - One person that can hold her own. 288 00:21:23,510 --> 00:21:26,343 - She's a great actor. - Yeah. Up against Bernie Mac. 289 00:21:26,430 --> 00:21:28,467 We wanted somebody tough. 290 00:21:29,030 --> 00:21:31,260 We went through so many birthmark signs. 291 00:21:32,630 --> 00:21:35,941 Some were African symbology for "fighting lion," 292 00:21:36,030 --> 00:21:39,386 and it ended up being Africa and Madagascar. 293 00:21:39,470 --> 00:21:42,383 - Not too subtle. - Kids understand it, I suppose. 294 00:21:42,470 --> 00:21:45,110 - Yeah, not too subtle. - This is one of the areas 295 00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:49,866 the animators really landed. This was John Hill's team. 296 00:21:49,950 --> 00:21:53,705 This sequence, I think, was just seen as the starting 297 00:21:53,790 --> 00:21:57,579 to recognize as Alex, is really powerful and the animators, with very little, 298 00:21:57,670 --> 00:21:59,946 really landed this. It's so emotional. 299 00:22:02,390 --> 00:22:07,669 Even little eye twitches and eye darts really helps out the subtlety. 300 00:22:18,830 --> 00:22:22,585 We end up having a lot of these 360 shots, 301 00:22:22,670 --> 00:22:27,187 which... 360 shots in the movie that are hard to light. 302 00:22:27,270 --> 00:22:31,309 You have to light it from every angle. 303 00:22:31,430 --> 00:22:34,422 But we had a lot of these, and the lighters really 304 00:22:34,510 --> 00:22:38,629 made a great effort to give us what we wanted. 305 00:22:38,710 --> 00:22:43,625 We have Zuba, 20 years later. He's got a little gray streak in his hair. 306 00:22:43,750 --> 00:22:46,139 - You mean Makunga? - Makunga, sorry. 307 00:22:46,590 --> 00:22:49,981 I think this was partly... Didn't Kendal see someone at an airport 308 00:22:50,070 --> 00:22:53,108 who had a gray streak and thought it'd be great for the character? 309 00:22:53,230 --> 00:22:56,109 I saw that guy, too, at the airport the same day. 310 00:22:56,230 --> 00:23:01,179 Rob Koo put the dik-dik in Makunga's hands that he's playing with. 311 00:23:01,590 --> 00:23:04,787 Like in Africa, we just saw dik-diks everywhere. 312 00:23:05,390 --> 00:23:08,906 - What do you call them, Tom? - Africa's Cheetos. 313 00:23:10,550 --> 00:23:12,302 Every animal snacks on them. 314 00:23:12,430 --> 00:23:16,469 Kendal was great. We did this Lawrence of Arabia bit here 315 00:23:16,550 --> 00:23:20,259 and she made sure that it was... Their hats were made 316 00:23:20,390 --> 00:23:22,028 out of the parachute they landed in. 317 00:23:22,110 --> 00:23:25,899 To try and keep the details real, to make the world a little real. 318 00:23:31,630 --> 00:23:35,669 We said, "Chris, we want you to voice every zebra in Africa." 319 00:23:35,750 --> 00:23:38,344 - He just said, "Okay." - It was amazing. 320 00:23:38,430 --> 00:23:40,182 He was so wonderful about it. 321 00:23:40,270 --> 00:23:43,262 Then we had him say the same line over and over again. 322 00:23:43,350 --> 00:23:46,388 He would have to say "It's crack-a-lackin'" 50 times. 323 00:23:46,590 --> 00:23:49,389 "It's crack-a-lackin'. It's crack-a-lackin'." 324 00:23:57,630 --> 00:24:01,225 It was very difficult in the production design of this 325 00:24:01,310 --> 00:24:06,305 to differentiate our characters from the other African animals. 326 00:24:06,390 --> 00:24:10,304 Kendal Cronkhite and Shannon Jeffries did a great job of, like, 327 00:24:10,430 --> 00:24:14,708 de-saturating the other animals, having them different designs. 328 00:24:14,910 --> 00:24:17,982 And to pull our main characters out, which is really hard. 329 00:24:18,070 --> 00:24:21,859 Then the problem of getting the animals to stand out from the background 330 00:24:21,950 --> 00:24:25,625 because they're made to blend in so they don't get eaten. 331 00:24:26,470 --> 00:24:29,110 We learned that Mother Nature knows what she's doing. 332 00:24:30,190 --> 00:24:33,626 We put our lions out in the field of grass, and we couldn't see them. 333 00:24:33,710 --> 00:24:38,022 So we had to bring up their color, knock back the color of the grass 334 00:24:38,110 --> 00:24:41,990 and other tricks to make sure our characters popped. 335 00:24:42,070 --> 00:24:44,983 I think, with the lions, we designed them once, 336 00:24:45,070 --> 00:24:48,904 and Kendal felt strongly that they looked too similar to Alex and Zuba, 337 00:24:48,990 --> 00:24:53,587 that we had to go back in and redo our lions to make them stand out more. 338 00:24:53,670 --> 00:24:56,423 With the zebras, it's the other way. 339 00:24:56,510 --> 00:24:59,389 They all look just like Marty, with little variations. 340 00:25:19,670 --> 00:25:22,822 Originally, these were individual scenes, and then... 341 00:25:23,950 --> 00:25:27,181 It's great that we kind of did the intercutting here. 342 00:25:27,270 --> 00:25:31,104 We really tightened them up so we could make it a party scene. 343 00:25:31,630 --> 00:25:35,100 We had Will on the film 344 00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:41,143 to work with Hans Zimmer to do music. But he also did voices. 345 00:25:41,990 --> 00:25:45,381 He did what he called his "deep, dark, chocolate" voice 346 00:25:45,470 --> 00:25:48,462 for... Moto Moto. 347 00:25:48,550 --> 00:25:51,702 We just knew we had to use him. It was so much fun. 348 00:25:52,150 --> 00:25:54,983 We were even in the studio doing that voice then, 349 00:25:55,070 --> 00:25:58,620 and he said, "I've got an idea for a song." It just hit him. 350 00:25:59,110 --> 00:26:00,623 He pulled a piano bench over 351 00:26:00,750 --> 00:26:02,627 and started banging on it in front of the mike. 352 00:26:02,750 --> 00:26:04,343 Boom, boom, boom. 353 00:26:05,150 --> 00:26:09,462 - Then he started to do that... - Amazing. So wonderful. 354 00:26:09,590 --> 00:26:13,982 He ran back behind the end of the booth and pushed the engineer aside 355 00:26:14,070 --> 00:26:16,664 and started using his software to cut it together. 356 00:26:16,750 --> 00:26:20,425 In 20 minutes, he had the song. Pretty much as it appears in the film. 357 00:26:27,430 --> 00:26:32,823 Also, with Moto Moto it's great that the guys who rigged our virtual puppets, 358 00:26:32,910 --> 00:26:37,268 we wanted to have him to be able to flex his pecs and also flex his butt cheeks. 359 00:26:40,150 --> 00:26:42,790 So they gave the animators the tools to do that. 360 00:26:46,670 --> 00:26:49,788 It's surreal when you're doing your job and saying things like, 361 00:26:49,870 --> 00:26:51,588 "We need more butt cheek flex." 362 00:26:53,870 --> 00:26:59,422 Always, the little hairs on Moto Moto's chest kind of creeped me out. 363 00:27:00,030 --> 00:27:03,102 They used to go a lot lower. We had to... 364 00:27:03,190 --> 00:27:04,783 What is it called, manscaping? 365 00:27:24,550 --> 00:27:26,621 Sacha did this... 366 00:27:27,030 --> 00:27:28,941 It wasn't even in the film, this song. 367 00:27:29,030 --> 00:27:31,385 He said, "It'd be great if Julien sang Private Dancer." 368 00:27:31,470 --> 00:27:35,668 He went off for 10 minutes doing this song and dancing and... 369 00:27:35,830 --> 00:27:37,946 Didn't he do an hour of all different songs? 370 00:27:38,030 --> 00:27:39,748 Yeah, he did many songs. 371 00:27:39,950 --> 00:27:43,625 My favourite was when he was singing Word Up! by Cameo. That was great. 372 00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:48,586 This little sequence, we just thought a nice comedic introduction 373 00:27:48,670 --> 00:27:52,140 to get us in, and then we remembered Sacha's singing 374 00:27:52,230 --> 00:27:54,540 and found a place to put it in. 375 00:27:55,350 --> 00:27:58,581 We could make a film on each of these characters. 376 00:27:58,670 --> 00:28:01,310 That's the hard part of the job. 377 00:28:01,510 --> 00:28:05,424 Losing a lot of stuff to fit the story into the movie. 378 00:28:05,510 --> 00:28:10,061 It was a big challenge on this story 'cause we carry 12 characters, 379 00:28:10,310 --> 00:28:13,826 13 characters from Mad 1, and then all the characters they meet. 380 00:28:13,910 --> 00:28:17,187 So it was a big challenge just to service everybody. 381 00:28:26,070 --> 00:28:29,301 This is the first sequence we did the 3D clouds in. 382 00:28:29,390 --> 00:28:31,904 It took them a long time to get it worked out, 383 00:28:31,990 --> 00:28:34,140 but I think it looks beautiful. 384 00:28:38,230 --> 00:28:41,348 This is fun, with the penguins. They never support the story, 385 00:28:41,430 --> 00:28:44,741 so they can always be comic relief, in a way. 386 00:28:45,430 --> 00:28:47,228 That's why they're so fun to work with. 387 00:28:57,070 --> 00:29:01,587 We just all love Boston so much. We wanted to get them into the film. 388 00:29:03,150 --> 00:29:06,506 What about Nana getting tossed out through the windshield? 389 00:29:06,590 --> 00:29:09,104 Is that a Rob Koo special, or was that... 390 00:29:09,230 --> 00:29:12,700 We had a whole fight sequence here at one point. 391 00:29:13,070 --> 00:29:18,019 This joke was Jeffrey's joke. We showed it to Jeffrey, and he said, 392 00:29:18,110 --> 00:29:22,024 "They gotta stop and say, 'Is she dead? No?' And go back for her." 393 00:29:22,110 --> 00:29:24,499 The sound effect was really important on that. 394 00:29:24,590 --> 00:29:27,503 - When they hit, the beach-ball sound. - Right. 395 00:29:27,830 --> 00:29:31,027 When it was too harsh, you went... 396 00:29:31,110 --> 00:29:33,829 No one likes their grandmas being hit by jeeps. 397 00:29:41,510 --> 00:29:43,262 This is the extension sequence. 398 00:29:43,350 --> 00:29:45,546 We completed the sequence and added this beat 399 00:29:45,630 --> 00:29:48,941 as Nana became a bigger character throughout the movie. 400 00:29:49,030 --> 00:29:51,670 Originally, we had many types of villains. 401 00:29:51,750 --> 00:29:54,947 We had evil hunter-poachers, we had... Who was it? 402 00:29:55,030 --> 00:29:59,388 - German princess. - Goethe Von Ishkabibble. 403 00:29:59,550 --> 00:30:04,226 We needed a blue-eyed lion. So it was all these diabolical plans 404 00:30:04,310 --> 00:30:07,189 to dam the river that feeds the reserve. 405 00:30:07,310 --> 00:30:11,429 - She was a princess from... - Löwenbräuenstein. 406 00:30:12,750 --> 00:30:15,663 - Sounds like a bottle of lager. - It does. 407 00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:22,230 This was great. It was suggested in a story meeting that we just use Nana. 408 00:30:22,310 --> 00:30:25,746 It fell into place because it became more of a cause-and-effect situation 409 00:30:25,830 --> 00:30:28,265 with her and the tourists losing their jeeps. 410 00:30:29,870 --> 00:30:31,986 She's not the villain, either. 411 00:30:32,510 --> 00:30:36,060 It's really more Makunga who's pulling the strings 412 00:30:36,190 --> 00:30:39,626 - and doing the evil stuff. - Let's talk about lighting, here... 413 00:30:39,710 --> 00:30:40,859 It's so beautiful. 414 00:30:48,470 --> 00:30:51,940 I love Bernie in this sequence. He does such a great job. 415 00:30:52,030 --> 00:30:55,102 So much of it was ad-libbed. It makes him so sweet. 416 00:30:55,190 --> 00:30:58,501 This is a great sequence for the family dynamic. 417 00:30:59,150 --> 00:31:02,347 Bernie went into this whole ad-lib about Alex hiding in a box. 418 00:31:02,430 --> 00:31:05,627 He wouldn't come to dinner. We didn't have boxes in Africa, 419 00:31:05,710 --> 00:31:08,099 so we couldn't use it, but it was really cute. 420 00:31:08,190 --> 00:31:12,741 The music here is really beautiful underneath this scene. 421 00:31:12,830 --> 00:31:16,300 It helps with the emotions. Again, Hans Zimmer. 422 00:31:30,510 --> 00:31:34,424 We knew we wanted this nice, warm light in here. 423 00:31:35,150 --> 00:31:38,586 And weren't sure exactly how to achieve it. You never... 424 00:31:38,710 --> 00:31:41,463 Throughout the scene, you never see the source of that light, 425 00:31:41,590 --> 00:31:42,989 until the very end. 426 00:31:43,070 --> 00:31:45,664 Which is another idea that came from the story department. 427 00:31:52,790 --> 00:31:54,827 Kids always like the foofie joke. 428 00:31:54,910 --> 00:31:56,628 They can identify. 429 00:32:02,110 --> 00:32:03,908 That was a great line that Sherri ad-libbed. 430 00:32:13,390 --> 00:32:17,020 As opposed to the first one, you were talking about this before, Mireille, 431 00:32:17,110 --> 00:32:20,740 we wanted the opportunity to flex muscles in animation, 432 00:32:20,830 --> 00:32:22,980 both with broad and the subtle stuff. 433 00:32:23,070 --> 00:32:26,347 This is where the animators came through with bringing that. 434 00:32:26,430 --> 00:32:28,899 We didn't have too much of that in the first movie. 435 00:32:28,990 --> 00:32:33,029 The story alone created opportunities to do this kind of acting. 436 00:32:44,510 --> 00:32:48,060 She had this moment coming up where she kisses him. I love that moment. 437 00:32:48,150 --> 00:32:51,268 - We used to have dialog. - Wasn't this you insisting here, 438 00:32:51,350 --> 00:32:54,388 when you had little children, you used to just stare at... 439 00:32:54,470 --> 00:32:57,667 My kids are older. They still get mad. 440 00:32:57,790 --> 00:32:59,670 I go in when they're sleeping and stare at them. 441 00:32:59,750 --> 00:33:02,947 They're trying to go to sleep, saying, "Go away, Mom. Go away!" 442 00:33:03,310 --> 00:33:06,666 - We should have just kept her there. - Peeking. 443 00:33:07,710 --> 00:33:10,429 We did have her there. Zuba would come get her. 444 00:33:10,510 --> 00:33:12,103 "Come on, let the boy sleep." 445 00:33:16,830 --> 00:33:18,662 We're back to our polka. 446 00:33:25,030 --> 00:33:27,909 That's Philly Joe, who's Stephen. 447 00:33:28,030 --> 00:33:32,422 Stephen is the reader who'd work with the actors every time we're recording. 448 00:33:33,190 --> 00:33:36,467 He's an actor himself and does voices. He was great. 449 00:33:36,550 --> 00:33:39,303 He's Philly Joe, with the video camera, 450 00:33:39,390 --> 00:33:43,463 as well as one of the giraffes, Stephen. 451 00:33:44,030 --> 00:33:46,067 - Named after him. - You're in my light, Stephen. 452 00:33:47,950 --> 00:33:52,421 This is great work that Philippe Gluckman and Scott Peterson 453 00:33:52,510 --> 00:33:55,901 did with lighting and effects to make this gag play. 454 00:33:59,870 --> 00:34:01,622 There's the corporate-ladder people. 455 00:34:01,710 --> 00:34:03,508 There used to be 25 of them. 456 00:34:03,590 --> 00:34:05,945 "What's up with the corporate-ladder people?" 457 00:34:06,030 --> 00:34:09,466 So we had to find more variety with T-shirts. 458 00:34:48,270 --> 00:34:51,183 Mort's so fun. Andy Richter is just like, 459 00:34:51,270 --> 00:34:53,739 he created the "tra-la-la" song. 460 00:34:54,390 --> 00:34:58,384 He's the only one that could get to that falsetto voice 461 00:34:58,470 --> 00:35:01,144 and not have it be really super-annoying. 462 00:35:01,590 --> 00:35:03,422 He's just funny, you know? 463 00:35:05,030 --> 00:35:08,182 But that was a challenge. We had to make sure 464 00:35:08,270 --> 00:35:10,022 we didn't see him in the water. 465 00:35:10,110 --> 00:35:11,862 - Oh, yeah. - We added that scene. 466 00:35:11,950 --> 00:35:14,100 We couldn't show the shark in the water. 467 00:35:37,270 --> 00:35:40,979 It's sort of the "infinite number of monkeys" concept, 468 00:35:41,070 --> 00:35:44,062 which allows you to accomplish anything. 469 00:35:44,150 --> 00:35:47,222 We had jokes about writing works of Shakespeare, eventually, 470 00:35:47,310 --> 00:35:51,861 - but those kind of went away. - Mason, played by Conrad Vernon, 471 00:35:51,950 --> 00:35:56,387 one of the directors of Monsters vs. Aliens and Shrek 2. 472 00:35:58,150 --> 00:36:01,268 I love the fact that most of the animals in the movie talk, 473 00:36:01,390 --> 00:36:04,860 apart from the monkeys. They're actual monkeys. They don't talk. 474 00:36:04,950 --> 00:36:07,021 - And the flamingos. - And the flamingos. 475 00:36:07,550 --> 00:36:09,470 And the dik-diks. The dik-diks talk a little bit. 476 00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:13,790 We call that monkey Mason. 477 00:36:13,870 --> 00:36:17,704 Conrad does his best James Mason impersonation. 478 00:36:17,830 --> 00:36:21,141 - He's the only talking monkey. - Whenever Phil does sign language, 479 00:36:21,230 --> 00:36:25,588 as well, we do our research and bring in people that know sign language 480 00:36:25,670 --> 00:36:28,503 so the animators can actually get it right. 481 00:36:39,350 --> 00:36:42,980 We used to have Alex here with mime makeup. He looked like a mime. 482 00:36:43,430 --> 00:36:48,220 We're just... Since we wanted this emotional scene after he gets banished, 483 00:36:48,310 --> 00:36:50,950 it didn't really... He was hard to take seriously 484 00:36:51,030 --> 00:36:53,465 - with the mime-face makeup. - He looked like a clown. 485 00:36:53,550 --> 00:36:55,427 Yeah, it was a clown. 486 00:37:04,030 --> 00:37:06,624 This was one of the first ideas in the film, 487 00:37:06,710 --> 00:37:11,068 that Alex would go through this rite of passage. We tried many things, 488 00:37:11,550 --> 00:37:15,225 you know, even alluding to circumcision at one point. 489 00:37:15,310 --> 00:37:19,827 Different gags. But it kept coming back to this idea 490 00:37:19,910 --> 00:37:24,905 that Etan Cohen, our writer, came up with, 491 00:37:24,990 --> 00:37:27,106 that Alex would do this dance performance 492 00:37:27,190 --> 00:37:29,022 and actually do West Side Story. 493 00:37:30,150 --> 00:37:32,949 We went away from it a few times, but it kept coming back. 494 00:37:33,030 --> 00:37:35,180 It just seemed so Alex. 495 00:37:35,270 --> 00:37:37,261 His dad was explaining it, he used to say, 496 00:37:37,350 --> 00:37:40,149 "There's not gonna be any snipping, is there?" 497 00:37:40,230 --> 00:37:42,267 Zuba would laugh and say, "Not if you're quick." 498 00:38:03,750 --> 00:38:07,186 We used to have this to make it clear cubs would pick out partners to fight. 499 00:38:07,270 --> 00:38:12,106 One of them fought Grampy, the elderly lion. 500 00:38:12,870 --> 00:38:16,784 - Picked lions they could beat. - The other one, his little brother. 501 00:38:16,870 --> 00:38:20,261 I think Grampy said, "Get off my lawn!" 502 00:38:20,910 --> 00:38:23,299 - Wheezy, I think, was there. - Yeah. 503 00:38:25,750 --> 00:38:27,024 Teetsi was fun. This is great. 504 00:38:27,110 --> 00:38:30,740 We wanted to do these muscles popping out of him. 505 00:38:30,830 --> 00:38:34,949 They went to great lengths to have two models of Teetsi. 506 00:38:35,990 --> 00:38:38,584 One was the lethargic one, and one was fully ripped. 507 00:38:38,670 --> 00:38:42,106 They could make muscles pop out of it, which is really fun. 508 00:38:55,550 --> 00:38:58,861 I like how, despite all his fierceness, he gets kind of, 509 00:38:59,030 --> 00:39:01,419 "Not 'dance' dance." He gets bummed out. 510 00:39:03,670 --> 00:39:06,583 This was great. And, as earlier before, 511 00:39:06,670 --> 00:39:10,425 the animators would act this out and videotape themselves dancing. 512 00:39:10,510 --> 00:39:13,423 We had a choreographer, Yeko, who also broke down 513 00:39:13,510 --> 00:39:16,309 the West Side Story choreography 514 00:39:16,390 --> 00:39:19,826 and was an aid to the animators, as well. 515 00:39:20,910 --> 00:39:24,665 Also, the cubs coming out, a lot of African movement. 516 00:39:24,750 --> 00:39:28,300 African dance, choreographed a whole dance for them. 517 00:39:48,310 --> 00:39:49,983 Even for things like Alex's black eye, 518 00:39:50,070 --> 00:39:54,985 we had to track it through the movie and, you know, different stages. 519 00:39:55,070 --> 00:39:58,108 I'm sure it's the same continuity you'd have in live-action. 520 00:39:58,190 --> 00:40:00,306 But there's three stages for Alex's black eye 521 00:40:00,390 --> 00:40:02,381 that thread throughout the movie. 522 00:40:03,390 --> 00:40:07,349 As well, the fruit hat has three stages of wilting. 523 00:40:14,310 --> 00:40:19,589 Just for the choreography here, with these grandstands, again, 524 00:40:19,670 --> 00:40:23,903 Guillermo Navarro encouraging us to shoot these scenes low-tech 525 00:40:23,990 --> 00:40:28,700 with video cameras and just people around the studio being the actors. 526 00:40:28,790 --> 00:40:32,340 It really helped in our low-tech version of shooting these shots 527 00:40:32,430 --> 00:40:34,990 to choreograph the staging and blocking. 528 00:40:35,070 --> 00:40:39,268 In this one, I remember we went outside and shot it on the stands, 529 00:40:39,350 --> 00:40:42,024 where they had baseball, so we could have steps 530 00:40:42,110 --> 00:40:46,820 and Nol and the team, out there in the cold, shooting it. 531 00:40:46,910 --> 00:40:51,461 Yeah. There's probably 60% of the movie we shot that way. 532 00:40:51,550 --> 00:40:55,544 I just wanted to have H., our editor, cut that together 533 00:40:55,630 --> 00:41:00,101 so we had a version of video of us acting it out. 534 00:41:00,390 --> 00:41:01,505 Yeah. 535 00:41:14,270 --> 00:41:17,900 These Hats of Shame, they have this in some tribes in Africa. 536 00:41:17,990 --> 00:41:20,027 Eric had researched. 537 00:41:21,590 --> 00:41:25,265 When we were unsure of whether we should have Alex wearing a fruit hat 538 00:41:25,350 --> 00:41:29,105 for a third of the movie, it was justified by reality. 539 00:41:29,190 --> 00:41:31,750 They make kids, if they fail the rite of passage, 540 00:41:31,830 --> 00:41:35,619 wear this big, flowery, feathery hat of embarrassment. 541 00:41:39,070 --> 00:41:43,667 We used to try and justify where they had gone, far away from watering hole 542 00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:46,469 in the dik-dik area with dik-diks surrounding them. 543 00:41:47,350 --> 00:41:49,341 But we decided we didn't need to explain it 544 00:41:49,430 --> 00:41:51,660 as much as just get into the scene. 545 00:41:52,230 --> 00:41:54,665 We used to have a lot of dik-dik jokes. 546 00:41:54,750 --> 00:41:57,503 We were afraid people wouldn't know that it was a real animal. 547 00:41:59,510 --> 00:42:00,784 This was one of the sequences 548 00:42:00,870 --> 00:42:03,783 we reworked more than any other sequence. 549 00:42:04,510 --> 00:42:08,583 Right. It was tough. It's the big split between father and son. 550 00:42:09,710 --> 00:42:12,987 - Finding the right tone. - Hans, with this bit, 551 00:42:13,070 --> 00:42:17,621 wanted to be subtle with the music. And had that nice piano beat. 552 00:42:17,710 --> 00:42:20,179 When we were in London scoring, 553 00:42:20,310 --> 00:42:23,348 Eric's son had the opportunity to sit at the piano 554 00:42:23,430 --> 00:42:27,310 - and play those chords. - He was thrilled. 555 00:42:27,430 --> 00:42:30,343 Eric's tearing up now as we're talking about it. 556 00:42:38,070 --> 00:42:42,985 In this sequence, we used to have the ostrich giving birth. 557 00:42:44,830 --> 00:42:48,266 - Melman was delivering an egg. - Twelve-pound omelet. 558 00:42:49,630 --> 00:42:51,667 Schwimmer had a great line. He said, 559 00:42:51,750 --> 00:42:53,790 "Don't worry about the shell. He'll grow out of it." 560 00:42:57,910 --> 00:43:02,541 He also had an assistant, Sandy, who is on the cutting-room floor. 561 00:43:02,630 --> 00:43:06,021 The gum-chewing, clipboard-toting Sandy. 562 00:43:06,150 --> 00:43:09,427 I'd love to know what the elephant did to get his trunk in such a knot. 563 00:43:09,510 --> 00:43:13,219 Melman says he's been naughty. I want to know what that means. 564 00:43:13,310 --> 00:43:14,948 Don't ask. 565 00:43:17,190 --> 00:43:20,740 That was the old magic trick. The knot was not part of his trunk. 566 00:43:20,870 --> 00:43:25,068 It was a model put on there. We had to find a way to get rid of the knot. 567 00:43:25,150 --> 00:43:29,144 The animator pulled it off screen and did the old switcheroo. 568 00:43:30,710 --> 00:43:34,226 This is Cassidy Curtis' sequence. Did a great job with his crew 569 00:43:34,310 --> 00:43:37,701 - to bring out the comedy in Melman. - This is from the first film, 570 00:43:37,790 --> 00:43:40,623 when Marty did his show in the zoo in New York City. 571 00:43:49,310 --> 00:43:52,507 They helped him, too, because I believe they used... 572 00:43:52,590 --> 00:43:56,185 They started with the effects of water that we used in the first movie. 573 00:43:56,270 --> 00:43:59,706 So it gave the effects artists a helping hand there. 574 00:43:59,790 --> 00:44:05,502 Water is extremely difficult for Effects to get it to look right. 575 00:44:05,870 --> 00:44:10,546 This, actually, you wouldn't think of as being a difficult effects sequence. 576 00:44:10,670 --> 00:44:14,903 But between the water and grass... It's not like it's explosions. 577 00:44:14,990 --> 00:44:17,869 It was a really tricky sequence for our effects team. 578 00:44:19,750 --> 00:44:22,105 We had many debates over this shot here 579 00:44:22,190 --> 00:44:25,467 about the water hitting Marty, 580 00:44:25,550 --> 00:44:30,340 'cause that's a really hard contact, when water contacts another character. 581 00:44:30,830 --> 00:44:32,946 And wet characters are very difficult. 582 00:44:37,510 --> 00:44:41,504 Something that's probably easy in live action, but hard in computer animation. 583 00:44:43,910 --> 00:44:47,187 A lot of help from Skywalker Sound. 584 00:44:47,270 --> 00:44:52,026 Mixing a million zebras and trying to make it feel like a huge group. 585 00:44:58,270 --> 00:45:02,184 This is Eric's joke that was always funny. "Folding it here." 586 00:45:04,190 --> 00:45:05,703 Another huge scene. 587 00:45:05,790 --> 00:45:09,624 This took a long time, to choreograph all these monkeys. 588 00:45:09,710 --> 00:45:13,943 If you notice here, that's meant to be toilets that get knocked over. 589 00:45:14,030 --> 00:45:16,943 We move by it so fast, it's hard to catch it. 590 00:45:17,070 --> 00:45:19,380 But a lot of thought went into that joke. 591 00:45:19,470 --> 00:45:22,189 Another great thing, when we come in on the plane, 592 00:45:22,270 --> 00:45:25,547 you see Lunch Monkey underneath the plane, eating his banana. 593 00:45:25,630 --> 00:45:27,382 I love seeing that little guy. 594 00:45:27,670 --> 00:45:30,230 The crowds people would put monkeys everywhere. 595 00:45:30,310 --> 00:45:32,904 They have their own little jokes... 596 00:45:33,190 --> 00:45:35,500 Find Waldo. Where's Waldo? 597 00:45:36,990 --> 00:45:39,903 This was another scene we shot with Guillermo. 598 00:45:39,990 --> 00:45:43,301 A lot of the ideas with these monkeys tearing apart the plane 599 00:45:43,430 --> 00:45:47,025 is sort of their relationships all get torn apart, 600 00:45:47,110 --> 00:45:50,466 - came out of that live-action shoot. - When we started, 601 00:45:50,550 --> 00:45:53,224 it played like talking heads. 602 00:45:53,310 --> 00:45:55,824 It's like, what do we have around the plane? 603 00:45:55,910 --> 00:45:58,663 Monkeys came up, and people pretended to be monkeys, 604 00:45:58,750 --> 00:46:02,061 pulling chairs out from under them. It gave it a little bit of life. 605 00:46:03,190 --> 00:46:06,546 One of the tools that the art department team used... 606 00:46:06,670 --> 00:46:10,504 Before the movie starts, they ask us about emotional highs and lows 607 00:46:10,590 --> 00:46:13,503 going on in the film. This is a moment where things 608 00:46:13,590 --> 00:46:16,867 are going wrong for the characters. Skies are Grey. 609 00:46:16,950 --> 00:46:21,069 Maybe people don't connect that. But it really helps with the film 610 00:46:21,150 --> 00:46:23,346 that when things are down, 611 00:46:23,470 --> 00:46:26,781 you'll see skies are Grey, the color's pulled out. 612 00:46:26,870 --> 00:46:30,545 When things are happy for characters, they're the most colorful scenes. 613 00:46:30,630 --> 00:46:33,861 Kendal and her team will track this and plan sequences around 614 00:46:33,950 --> 00:46:37,147 the emotional beats of the sequence. 615 00:46:43,190 --> 00:46:47,024 It's fun to hear the ripple go through the crowd as they realise, 616 00:46:47,110 --> 00:46:51,627 "Wait a minute. That's Mart... He's not Marty... Oh!" 617 00:46:52,550 --> 00:46:56,748 As Alex is discovering it, the audience is, too. 618 00:46:56,830 --> 00:47:00,186 This is another great scene. Ben and Chris, again in the same room, 619 00:47:00,270 --> 00:47:05,060 played off each other and brought this scene to life. 620 00:47:17,830 --> 00:47:19,582 This is another one where you see 621 00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:21,900 the live-action reference coming from the animator, 622 00:47:22,030 --> 00:47:25,227 - it's Jason Spencer Galsworthy. - It looks like Jason. 623 00:47:25,310 --> 00:47:26,983 It does. 624 00:47:27,070 --> 00:47:30,222 A lot of times, animators will look in a mirror when doing performances, 625 00:47:30,310 --> 00:47:34,349 and as much as you can get Ben Stiller, you can also get the animator in there. 626 00:47:52,110 --> 00:47:56,263 Way in the distance, behind Marty, there's a thousand zebras. 627 00:47:56,350 --> 00:47:59,263 If you watch close, you'll see them, they're grazing, moving around. 628 00:48:02,550 --> 00:48:06,862 It's that little touch, just helps keep it real. 629 00:48:12,110 --> 00:48:13,942 Great scope in this. 630 00:48:14,030 --> 00:48:17,705 This film could have benefited from 3D, in a way. 631 00:48:17,950 --> 00:48:21,989 But we're fortunate not to have to jump through all those hoops. 632 00:48:22,070 --> 00:48:25,586 It is the last 2D movie for DreamWorks. 633 00:48:25,670 --> 00:48:28,822 If you kids run up and touch the screen and feel how smooth it is, 634 00:48:30,430 --> 00:48:34,219 enjoy, because it will soon have 3D effect. 635 00:48:41,350 --> 00:48:42,420 Stereoscopic. 636 00:48:43,950 --> 00:48:46,021 In all these environments, you know, 637 00:48:46,910 --> 00:48:50,505 a lot of the tone and the feel of these spaces 638 00:48:50,590 --> 00:48:53,821 come from our trip to Africa. We really 639 00:48:54,950 --> 00:48:58,500 shared these sunsets, what have you, together. 640 00:48:58,590 --> 00:49:00,228 When we came to the studio, 641 00:49:00,310 --> 00:49:02,779 it was shorthand for us with the creative leads. 642 00:49:02,870 --> 00:49:06,181 "Remember that day, sun was going down on the Masai Mara, 643 00:49:06,270 --> 00:49:09,262 - "trees were silhouette?" - We'd get up to watch the sunrise. 644 00:49:09,350 --> 00:49:13,583 And so it was kind of a real shorthand for us. 645 00:49:17,670 --> 00:49:19,110 King Julien's moved up in the world. 646 00:49:19,150 --> 00:49:22,222 He's riding ostriches instead of flamingos. 647 00:49:23,790 --> 00:49:27,385 Throughout the movie, we track King Julien's apparent rise as king. 648 00:49:27,470 --> 00:49:31,065 You'll notice he's riding a higher class of animal each time. 649 00:49:31,950 --> 00:49:35,022 Sacha ad-libbing this scene. We had something else in here, 650 00:49:35,110 --> 00:49:37,989 and he decided, "Julien would want to whistle." 651 00:49:38,070 --> 00:49:39,902 He probably whistled a dozen songs, too. 652 00:49:39,990 --> 00:49:42,266 "This is Maneater, by Hall & Oates." 653 00:49:46,670 --> 00:49:50,140 He did the entire song, too. So we have that recorded. 654 00:49:52,550 --> 00:49:56,703 "Invade a neighboring country, impose your own ideology," that was all Sacha. 655 00:49:59,670 --> 00:50:04,267 I love this little bit here with Julien embracing Melman's head. 656 00:50:07,310 --> 00:50:09,301 And ignoring him at the same time. 657 00:50:21,950 --> 00:50:23,429 We had so much flamingo trouble. 658 00:50:23,510 --> 00:50:26,263 We used to have many flamingos. They were hot pink. 659 00:50:26,350 --> 00:50:29,149 - It was very distracting. - Your eye kept going to it. 660 00:50:29,230 --> 00:50:33,588 So we had to make Julien and Maurice forefront. 661 00:50:35,470 --> 00:50:38,189 - This is a really beautiful shot. - Yeah. 662 00:50:39,030 --> 00:50:42,944 And this one looks exactly like the color key that was painted. 663 00:50:43,310 --> 00:50:45,950 One of those scenes where you see the original color key, 664 00:50:46,030 --> 00:50:49,625 and it turned out exactly how the art team envisioned it. 665 00:50:49,710 --> 00:50:52,828 That's what's great about the art department, is we... 666 00:50:53,350 --> 00:50:56,308 All these key scenes and shots, they do paintings of... 667 00:50:56,390 --> 00:50:58,904 Very elaborate paintings that set the mood and lighting 668 00:50:58,990 --> 00:51:02,346 that the CG artists then try and emulate. 669 00:51:04,630 --> 00:51:07,702 These scenes, like before, talking about each character 670 00:51:07,790 --> 00:51:10,225 could have their own movie. I always feel like Cedric... 671 00:51:12,390 --> 00:51:14,825 He's a great partner for Julien. 672 00:51:14,910 --> 00:51:16,070 He's clearly the smarter one, 673 00:51:16,150 --> 00:51:19,780 but he loves to get into whatever Julien's into at the moment. 674 00:51:20,710 --> 00:51:24,340 Cedric's great. You go, "Want to sing?" He's like, "Yeah! I'll sing." 675 00:51:26,430 --> 00:51:28,068 Did some great stuff in here. 676 00:51:36,150 --> 00:51:39,347 Again, will.I.am, creating a song for the scene. 677 00:51:42,150 --> 00:51:46,383 This choreography is also derived from African dances 678 00:51:47,110 --> 00:51:49,306 Yeko pulled together for us. 679 00:51:50,270 --> 00:51:54,104 We started this without the choreography, originally, in animation, 680 00:51:54,190 --> 00:51:58,661 and it just wasn't feeling right. So we brought a choreographer in, 681 00:51:58,750 --> 00:52:01,503 and it made it feel more African. 682 00:52:01,590 --> 00:52:05,470 Right. They had a very traditional waltz there. 683 00:52:07,510 --> 00:52:10,104 Through no fault of their own, that's how we were directing them. 684 00:52:10,190 --> 00:52:12,909 It didn't feel right as we were seeing the scenes animated. 685 00:52:12,990 --> 00:52:17,143 We stopped, brought the choreographer in, and she did a great job. 686 00:52:17,230 --> 00:52:19,346 Denis and his team did a great job in this sequence. 687 00:52:20,950 --> 00:52:24,944 More moving camera. This is something we weren't able to do on the first, 688 00:52:25,030 --> 00:52:28,819 because we couldn't render these elaborate camera shots. 689 00:52:28,910 --> 00:52:31,629 This is just another example 690 00:52:31,710 --> 00:52:33,621 of how technology has improved so much 691 00:52:33,710 --> 00:52:37,101 and enabled us to let the camera 692 00:52:37,190 --> 00:52:39,227 be choreographed as well as the characters. 693 00:52:39,310 --> 00:52:42,746 The layout team, lead by Nol Meyer, they're really excited to be able 694 00:52:42,830 --> 00:52:46,380 to move that camera around a lot more than they could on previous films. 695 00:52:47,950 --> 00:52:51,181 This is... Also, in this sequence, at different times 696 00:52:51,270 --> 00:52:53,910 we have Moto Moto animated. 697 00:52:54,390 --> 00:52:59,669 And I think he came across slightly more aggressive than what we wanted. 698 00:52:59,750 --> 00:53:02,663 - Seedy? - Yeah. We started testing him. 699 00:53:02,750 --> 00:53:04,821 People weren't responding well to the character. 700 00:53:04,910 --> 00:53:08,790 We went back and looked at every scene Moto Moto was in and said, 701 00:53:08,870 --> 00:53:11,384 "Are we pushing him in a slightly seedier way?" 702 00:53:11,470 --> 00:53:14,986 We went back in. I guess we adjusted five or six shots... 703 00:53:15,070 --> 00:53:17,346 - We dumbed him up. - We dumbed him up. 704 00:53:17,510 --> 00:53:20,423 He played so much better the next time. It was amazing. 705 00:53:20,510 --> 00:53:22,945 In those few moments where we changed him, 706 00:53:23,030 --> 00:53:25,783 the difference it could make to his overall character. 707 00:53:25,870 --> 00:53:28,259 He comes across like Joey from Friends now. 708 00:53:29,510 --> 00:53:31,820 At the time, he was coming across more macho, 709 00:53:31,910 --> 00:53:34,629 and not quite as dumb, and certainly not as sweet. 710 00:53:34,710 --> 00:53:39,068 - Making Gloria seem more victimized. - Fine-tuning. 711 00:53:39,150 --> 00:53:42,108 We had a love story with Melman and Gloria in the first movie 712 00:53:42,190 --> 00:53:44,784 that we tried to play so many different ways, 713 00:53:44,910 --> 00:53:47,982 but ultimately we could never fit it into the film. 714 00:53:48,070 --> 00:53:53,383 So when we had the chance to do the sequel here, 715 00:53:53,470 --> 00:53:58,909 we found a way to put it in. It's such a great component of the film. 716 00:53:59,110 --> 00:54:02,660 And works with the theme of just being who you are, 717 00:54:02,750 --> 00:54:06,539 whatever the rest of the world might expect you to be. 718 00:54:06,630 --> 00:54:09,463 In the first movie we had boarded... 719 00:54:09,550 --> 00:54:12,668 They did a dance to... It was like the Dirty Dancing? 720 00:54:12,750 --> 00:54:16,584 Yeah. And then Gloria had a baby. 721 00:54:16,990 --> 00:54:19,425 She had been at the breeding program. She had a baby. 722 00:54:19,510 --> 00:54:21,387 Water broke, penguins were washed away. 723 00:54:21,470 --> 00:54:24,064 - My favourite. - It got around and round, 724 00:54:24,150 --> 00:54:27,222 and we had forgotten to tell Jada 725 00:54:27,310 --> 00:54:29,620 that her character was no longer pregnant. 726 00:54:29,710 --> 00:54:33,465 When we were doing the EPK at the end of the movie, she mentioned it. 727 00:54:33,550 --> 00:54:35,746 And Mireille had to update her. 728 00:54:35,830 --> 00:54:38,982 That is a sweet speech you wrote for Melman there. 729 00:54:39,070 --> 00:54:41,425 I really believe he loves her, it's so sweet. 730 00:54:46,870 --> 00:54:50,386 If you look closely, you'll see Makunga's face drawn on that nest. 731 00:54:50,470 --> 00:54:52,859 It's moving around so much, it's hard to catch. 732 00:54:52,950 --> 00:54:55,829 But, again, one of those things we put in, 733 00:54:55,910 --> 00:54:58,265 and sometimes it's hard to read in the movie. 734 00:54:58,350 --> 00:55:02,867 Another huge challenge, to get all these birds to do the right thing here. 735 00:55:06,590 --> 00:55:08,581 And go back into their nest. 736 00:55:14,750 --> 00:55:19,426 This is a plot point that we started with, about the watering hole, 737 00:55:19,510 --> 00:55:21,387 a crisis at the watering hole. 738 00:55:21,470 --> 00:55:24,588 When we went to Africa, there was a big drought. 739 00:55:24,670 --> 00:55:28,425 It confirmed in our minds that this is a legitimate crisis 740 00:55:28,510 --> 00:55:29,886 that could happen to these animals. 741 00:55:29,910 --> 00:55:33,426 The importance of it. We see herds of animals searching for the water. 742 00:55:39,790 --> 00:55:43,101 There was one tiny watering hole near one place that we visited. 743 00:55:43,190 --> 00:55:47,423 Elephants just stood there 24 hours a day and guarded it 744 00:55:47,510 --> 00:55:49,467 so they could have it to themselves. 745 00:55:59,710 --> 00:56:02,099 - Little squeak toy. - Yeah. 746 00:56:02,190 --> 00:56:05,660 It's amazing, with these crowds, they're cycles of animation 747 00:56:05,750 --> 00:56:10,142 that are cleverly designed so that the characters can actually 748 00:56:10,750 --> 00:56:12,502 transition from mood to mood. 749 00:56:12,590 --> 00:56:16,948 When we'd speak with the crowd animators of what we needed here, 750 00:56:17,030 --> 00:56:20,546 it'd be like "confused chatter" to "confused, worried looking" 751 00:56:20,630 --> 00:56:24,669 to "confused silence" to... 752 00:56:25,030 --> 00:56:27,829 They do a great job of keeping animals alive, 753 00:56:27,950 --> 00:56:30,988 making them feel independent of each other, 754 00:56:31,070 --> 00:56:33,300 but still being able to emote. 755 00:56:34,230 --> 00:56:37,746 We were talking, before, about the different villains we had for the film. 756 00:56:37,830 --> 00:56:41,710 At one point, we had Alec Baldwin, early on, 757 00:56:41,830 --> 00:56:43,406 playing a completely different character. 758 00:56:43,430 --> 00:56:48,903 He was playing himself in Africa, hiding out from the PETA folks. 759 00:56:49,230 --> 00:56:51,983 He was tired of PETA... 760 00:56:52,070 --> 00:56:54,664 I think he got a PETA plaque in the mail for his hard work, 761 00:56:54,750 --> 00:56:57,105 and he used it for skeet shooting. 762 00:56:57,230 --> 00:57:00,268 He recruited help to build his hunting lodge with actors. 763 00:57:00,350 --> 00:57:04,184 - It was an acting school. - He tricked actors to build this... 764 00:57:04,270 --> 00:57:09,140 Saying it was an acting school. What was the line about the carpenter? 765 00:57:09,230 --> 00:57:13,428 Yeah, they're building his lodge, complaining about having to build. 766 00:57:13,750 --> 00:57:14,979 "When do we start acting?" 767 00:57:15,070 --> 00:57:20,349 He goes, "Suppose you had to play the part of a carpenter or a painter. 768 00:57:20,430 --> 00:57:21,500 "You'll be well prepared." 769 00:57:24,750 --> 00:57:27,663 That character went away, and, fortunately, we were able 770 00:57:27,750 --> 00:57:33,746 to re-pitch the Makunga character to Alec. He was perfect for that. 771 00:57:34,630 --> 00:57:39,147 Just in case anyone wants to know, there's 4,231 zebras in that shot. 772 00:57:39,270 --> 00:57:41,341 - But we asked for 8,000. - I know. 773 00:57:41,430 --> 00:57:45,424 Also, sound-wise, with all these zebras chattering, 774 00:57:45,510 --> 00:57:49,788 the Skywalker folks had actually taken the dialog 775 00:57:49,870 --> 00:57:52,066 from Chris behind the mic, when just talking to him, 776 00:57:52,150 --> 00:57:55,939 and they used anything they could to fill out the sounds 777 00:57:56,030 --> 00:57:58,783 of thousands of zebras. 778 00:57:59,830 --> 00:58:01,950 So if you listen closely, there might be Chris talking 779 00:58:02,030 --> 00:58:04,067 about his Kill the Messenger tour, or 780 00:58:06,270 --> 00:58:07,590 if he could have a water. 781 00:58:08,950 --> 00:58:13,820 We had a version where Alex doesn't recognise Marty in the crowd, 782 00:58:13,910 --> 00:58:16,584 and just gives such an emotional heartfelt speech 783 00:58:16,670 --> 00:58:18,229 that Marty comes out. 784 00:58:18,350 --> 00:58:19,988 One of the executives, Bill Damaschke, 785 00:58:20,070 --> 00:58:24,462 thought it'd be more powerful if Alex actually recognised Marty. 786 00:58:24,550 --> 00:58:26,700 We tried it and we all agreed. 787 00:58:26,990 --> 00:58:30,665 Marty's turned the other way, so Alex, technically, 788 00:58:30,750 --> 00:58:36,428 is able to pick him out with the butt-bite mark on his butt. 789 00:58:37,470 --> 00:58:40,588 At one point, we even did that gag at the end of the film here, 790 00:58:40,670 --> 00:58:43,583 where as they're walking off to the jungle, we see Alex take a peek 791 00:58:43,710 --> 00:58:46,543 at Marty's butt to make sure he's got the right zebra. 792 00:58:47,110 --> 00:58:49,340 In a way, it undermined the moment here. 793 00:58:49,430 --> 00:58:53,708 We wanted to just make it up and positive and heartfelt, 794 00:58:53,790 --> 00:58:55,622 as these two guys go upriver. 795 00:58:55,710 --> 00:58:59,146 Later, we get the gag in at the end of the film, where we realise, 796 00:58:59,230 --> 00:59:01,699 "He saw the butt mark." 797 00:59:01,790 --> 00:59:04,430 So if you have a big-screen TV or Blu-ray, 798 00:59:04,510 --> 00:59:09,220 you'll see, as Marty's walking off, he doesn't have his bite mark. 799 00:59:09,390 --> 00:59:12,667 It would be confusing here, but later they magically appear. 800 00:59:15,710 --> 00:59:21,069 This is another example of where the computer world will generate 801 00:59:21,150 --> 00:59:24,381 so much of the set and light it. 802 00:59:25,230 --> 00:59:28,382 But it can't do everything. There's too much data. 803 00:59:28,470 --> 00:59:32,941 So these really talented matte painters really kind of 804 00:59:33,030 --> 00:59:37,627 extend the set off into the horizon, or the clouds, if they have to. 805 00:59:37,750 --> 00:59:40,708 They add to where the set ends up. 806 00:59:44,830 --> 00:59:47,185 Sometimes Michael Collery and his team 807 00:59:47,270 --> 00:59:50,342 would take a matte painting and break it into levels 808 00:59:50,430 --> 00:59:52,819 so we could do a camera move on it 809 00:59:52,910 --> 00:59:56,540 and get a little bit of parallax, even though there's not 3D elements. 810 00:59:56,630 --> 01:00:01,261 And make the leaves move within the paintings or clouds. 811 01:00:09,510 --> 01:00:11,865 Chris Rock... We showed him the scene and he thought 812 01:00:11,950 --> 01:00:15,386 it'd be funny if all the zebras were into Alex's hat. 813 01:00:15,590 --> 01:00:18,867 We jumped in the booth and recorded all these hat lines. 814 01:00:18,950 --> 01:00:21,624 Probably the last few weeks of animation. 815 01:00:27,630 --> 01:00:30,702 Notice he's on top of an elephant now. 816 01:00:30,790 --> 01:00:33,464 Because he's getting more powerful in Africa. 817 01:00:36,310 --> 01:00:39,746 This was an animator's idea, that he'd lose his staff here. 818 01:00:46,190 --> 01:00:49,581 Which, in our minds, some dik-dik retrieved and gave to him. 819 01:00:50,350 --> 01:00:52,626 This is a great beat that Sacha came up with. 820 01:00:52,710 --> 01:00:56,146 He should have an argument with himself. He came up with it on the fly. 821 01:00:56,230 --> 01:00:58,346 It lasted about 10 minutes. 822 01:00:58,470 --> 01:01:03,340 Unfortunately, we did have to cut it down to keep the story moving. 823 01:01:15,550 --> 01:01:20,420 Again, with production design, they took a lot of leaves off the trees 824 01:01:20,510 --> 01:01:22,228 to make it feel drier. 825 01:01:22,350 --> 01:01:26,821 They added dust and atmospherics to make it feel drier. 826 01:01:27,270 --> 01:01:30,467 There's hardly any clouds in the sky. 827 01:01:30,550 --> 01:01:34,384 Everything is desaturated to sell the dryness of it. 828 01:01:41,270 --> 01:01:44,740 We went through this with King Julien, same thing we did with Moto Moto. 829 01:01:44,830 --> 01:01:47,868 Walking that line of not wanting to feel like a jerk 830 01:01:47,950 --> 01:01:50,863 because he's gonna sacrifice an animal. 831 01:01:50,950 --> 01:01:53,385 So just going through and making him sweet. 832 01:01:53,750 --> 01:01:57,141 He used to call everyone "twit" and "nincompoop" and seemed a little... 833 01:02:07,150 --> 01:02:10,939 This was a huge challenge for the crowds. All running, chasing and... 834 01:02:15,230 --> 01:02:18,746 I was thinking of the music, how themes are done different ways. 835 01:02:19,910 --> 01:02:22,743 In the... With King Julien, 836 01:02:22,830 --> 01:02:26,425 I remember being so surprised when Hans did Move it, Move it 837 01:02:26,510 --> 01:02:29,980 in an orchestral version. 838 01:02:30,070 --> 01:02:32,710 But it sounds beautiful. The song that's like... 839 01:02:32,790 --> 01:02:34,861 I've got kids. I'm sick of that song. 840 01:02:34,950 --> 01:02:37,703 But when I hear Hans' version of it, it's so beautiful. 841 01:02:38,710 --> 01:02:43,739 All the animals here used to be chanting, "Sacrifice, sacrifice!" 842 01:02:43,910 --> 01:02:46,060 It just felt kind of dark. 843 01:02:46,150 --> 01:02:49,666 Then we changed it to celebrating Melman. 844 01:02:49,790 --> 01:02:53,226 But the lip sync is still "sacrifice," if you look closely. 845 01:03:06,390 --> 01:03:08,686 These are one of the scenes you write and you overwrite them, 846 01:03:08,710 --> 01:03:10,462 and they're two pages long. 847 01:03:10,550 --> 01:03:15,101 When you boil it down, there's only a couple of key lines that sell the point. 848 01:03:24,630 --> 01:03:27,748 We always loved this scene, too, with Makunga coming here. 849 01:03:27,870 --> 01:03:32,740 So we kept having to change the ending of the watering-hole scene, 850 01:03:32,830 --> 01:03:35,902 when it dries up, to make sure we could motivate him coming. 851 01:03:35,990 --> 01:03:39,585 But it was like how to keep that connected. 852 01:03:45,710 --> 01:03:47,781 Sean Mahoney did this shot here. 853 01:03:47,870 --> 01:03:50,749 Great tribute to Alec and his expressions. 854 01:03:57,230 --> 01:04:00,461 This was a Baldwin ad-lib. Funny. 855 01:04:06,590 --> 01:04:10,299 Now, we come to the jungle. Very different than jungles in Madagascar, 856 01:04:10,990 --> 01:04:15,427 which were very colorful, filled with beautiful foliage. 857 01:04:16,110 --> 01:04:18,147 This is the scary jungle. 858 01:04:20,670 --> 01:04:23,867 It's difficult, within the story, to try and find variety 859 01:04:23,950 --> 01:04:28,228 within the landscapes to... This is all set in Africa, and... 860 01:04:31,030 --> 01:04:34,307 The art department did a fantastic job of making you feel 861 01:04:34,390 --> 01:04:38,748 like you come to a new, dynamic area with its own feel and mood 862 01:04:38,830 --> 01:04:42,425 and not get environment fatigue. 863 01:04:42,510 --> 01:04:44,740 I love that Alex still has his hat. 864 01:04:44,910 --> 01:04:47,823 He's left, and he still insists on wearing the Hat of Shame. 865 01:04:47,950 --> 01:04:51,068 - The wilted, stage three hat. - Stage three. 866 01:04:53,270 --> 01:04:54,624 Here, we used to have this scene 867 01:04:54,710 --> 01:04:57,702 where Nana showed them how to hunt with her purse, 868 01:04:57,790 --> 01:05:00,543 and she was beating up a straw zebra. 869 01:05:04,110 --> 01:05:06,784 She was just thrashing it and thrashing it. 870 01:05:06,910 --> 01:05:11,381 She's funnier when she's more benign. It made this reaction even funnier. 871 01:05:11,470 --> 01:05:15,987 This is a reaction to her bashing the zebra. 872 01:05:16,070 --> 01:05:19,745 Only when she's provoked is she violent. 873 01:05:25,150 --> 01:05:27,539 They're doing all these maneuvers to escape spears, 874 01:05:27,630 --> 01:05:31,225 and Ben and Chris were just making up their own maneuvers, 875 01:05:31,310 --> 01:05:35,781 - the Squiggly Squid and... - Etch A Sketch is my favourite. 876 01:05:36,270 --> 01:05:40,264 - Is it in The In-Laws? - The Serpentine. 877 01:05:40,550 --> 01:05:44,509 Serpentine. It started with an homage to The In-Laws. 878 01:05:44,630 --> 01:05:46,223 They took it to a new level. 879 01:05:53,030 --> 01:05:56,625 This was a tricky scene as well. They used to be chanting "jump." 880 01:05:56,710 --> 01:05:59,987 It's a very dark-looking scene. 881 01:06:00,430 --> 01:06:04,264 And Melman's about to kill himself. 882 01:06:04,350 --> 01:06:07,468 So, again, musically, with Hans, 883 01:06:07,550 --> 01:06:13,023 they made it more a celebration of Melman, which kind of made it more... 884 01:06:13,110 --> 01:06:14,145 Less dark. 885 01:06:15,070 --> 01:06:19,064 For a long time, we were gonna use songs here. Didn't we have... 886 01:06:19,150 --> 01:06:21,346 - Jump. - By The Pointer Sisters. 887 01:06:21,430 --> 01:06:24,548 - We had The Ohio Players doing Fire. - Fire. 888 01:06:24,670 --> 01:06:27,822 - Hans shot down Van Halen. - Hans just refused. 889 01:06:28,550 --> 01:06:30,109 "We're not even gonna do that." 890 01:06:30,190 --> 01:06:34,104 This witch-doctor scene, which is Eric, used to be at the end of the movie. 891 01:06:34,190 --> 01:06:38,343 It just felt like such an add-on that we decided to put it in here, 892 01:06:38,430 --> 01:06:42,344 - which meant more. - Now, we realise he's not dying. 893 01:06:42,430 --> 01:06:45,343 The last thing we want him to do, obviously, is throw himself in. 894 01:06:49,390 --> 01:06:53,224 There's that pull-out shot, and the crowds were Justin's group. 895 01:06:53,630 --> 01:06:55,223 He just really went to town. 896 01:06:55,310 --> 01:06:57,870 This was a big challenge for all the departments. 897 01:07:00,190 --> 01:07:03,421 The way this rock breaks away here... 898 01:07:03,510 --> 01:07:05,183 All that's done by hand. 899 01:07:07,950 --> 01:07:11,864 Every crack is pre-scored into the rock so they can pull it apart. 900 01:07:19,830 --> 01:07:22,709 - That was a Schwimmer add. - Really helps. 901 01:07:28,670 --> 01:07:31,059 We thought it'd be funny if Melman was dressed as the bride, 902 01:07:31,150 --> 01:07:34,825 and Gloria's more the groom. 903 01:07:35,790 --> 01:07:39,624 So he has this little bridal veil and orchids and... 904 01:07:39,710 --> 01:07:41,383 It's kind of a reversal. 905 01:07:43,830 --> 01:07:45,389 His lashes seem to go with it. 906 01:07:50,390 --> 01:07:51,983 It's amazing what these actors do. 907 01:07:52,070 --> 01:07:55,950 We go into a studio with just a microphone and nothing else. 908 01:07:56,030 --> 01:07:58,101 We describe the sequence to them 909 01:07:58,190 --> 01:08:01,342 and they imagine all this stuff going on around them. 910 01:08:01,990 --> 01:08:03,663 For Schwimmer, he picked up on the fact 911 01:08:03,750 --> 01:08:05,582 that Gloria's holding him by the horn. 912 01:08:06,710 --> 01:08:09,179 Thinking about that, how would Melman respond? 913 01:08:09,270 --> 01:08:11,181 It comes out of his imagination. 914 01:08:14,590 --> 01:08:16,866 This scene we had with the monkeys striking... 915 01:08:16,990 --> 01:08:21,188 It was before the big Hollywood strikes, 916 01:08:21,270 --> 01:08:24,820 the Writers Guild or the Actors Guild. 917 01:08:24,950 --> 01:08:27,669 Probably a year before those happened. 918 01:08:27,750 --> 01:08:31,903 We worried if we could keep those in, in good taste. 919 01:08:33,910 --> 01:08:37,187 - Hopefully, the actors won't... - Yeah. 920 01:08:37,270 --> 01:08:39,227 But yeah, discussions of all the strikes. 921 01:08:44,950 --> 01:08:49,387 This last photo used to have Skipper's tongue on the hula doll's cheek. 922 01:08:49,470 --> 01:08:52,781 - But it looked a little bit too much. - We had to tone it down. 923 01:08:57,070 --> 01:09:01,906 I love this first reveal of the new plane as it's coming together. 924 01:09:01,990 --> 01:09:06,905 We did so much work on the different stages of the plane. Alex did them all. 925 01:09:06,990 --> 01:09:10,301 In the movie, you get glimpses of it, but a lot of work went into it. 926 01:09:11,550 --> 01:09:14,827 We didn't want to reveal the plane completely, which was the trick of it. 927 01:09:14,910 --> 01:09:20,030 To save it for the third act. For the big moment, the climax. 928 01:09:24,070 --> 01:09:27,779 This sequence looks beautiful, and it's one of the sequences... 929 01:09:27,870 --> 01:09:31,864 Often, what happens on these movies is towards the end, you run out of time 930 01:09:31,950 --> 01:09:35,625 to get them finished and give less time to some departments. 931 01:09:35,710 --> 01:09:40,102 The lighting department had, probably, half the time they're used to. 932 01:09:40,190 --> 01:09:43,740 They somehow pull out beautiful images, and you can't tell at all. 933 01:09:43,870 --> 01:09:45,986 They always pull it together at the end. 934 01:09:58,790 --> 01:10:01,942 These are the Stage 3 tourists that are created. 935 01:10:02,030 --> 01:10:06,547 - All dirty and torn up. - Lord of the Flies tourists. 936 01:10:06,630 --> 01:10:11,067 The Alex performance used to be more of a pastiche act, 937 01:10:11,190 --> 01:10:14,820 where it had a little bit of everything, not just dancing. It had mime, 938 01:10:14,910 --> 01:10:19,461 as Eric called it, the "mimax." And other bits. 939 01:10:19,550 --> 01:10:23,020 But the dance worked so well. Then the music just 940 01:10:23,110 --> 01:10:25,989 pulled it all together, that Hans and Will created. 941 01:10:26,070 --> 01:10:29,108 You think about what the animators added to this, 'cause it was... 942 01:10:29,190 --> 01:10:33,309 It would be funny and it got laughs, but when it got animated, 943 01:10:33,390 --> 01:10:36,462 - it just completely got big laughs. - Yeah. 944 01:10:36,590 --> 01:10:40,299 It really was one of those scenes where it was never gonna work 945 01:10:40,390 --> 01:10:42,745 - until it was completely done. - It became, 946 01:10:42,830 --> 01:10:46,903 - "Who knows how to do The Worm?" - We actually had people who knew. 947 01:10:47,030 --> 01:10:49,943 - "Are there any poppers in the house?" - All the poppers came. 948 01:10:51,350 --> 01:10:53,102 Funny. A talented group. 949 01:11:01,150 --> 01:11:05,781 But, early on, this was always... In the early versions of the story, 950 01:11:05,910 --> 01:11:12,145 in different forms, Alex would save he and his father with some performance. 951 01:11:14,430 --> 01:11:18,822 We're back to the butterfly that we saw little Alex doing at the start. 952 01:11:22,950 --> 01:11:25,066 I love how the father's just off-kilter here. 953 01:11:25,150 --> 01:11:26,926 As he gets in the air, he's doing a great job, 954 01:11:26,950 --> 01:11:29,180 but no, no, no! Panic. 955 01:11:29,270 --> 01:11:30,340 Faceplant. 956 01:11:36,830 --> 01:11:40,869 We never explain why all these African tourists happen to be from New York. 957 01:11:41,590 --> 01:11:43,706 A happy accident. 958 01:11:43,790 --> 01:11:47,146 Some effects artists, instead of ricocheting off the barrel, 959 01:11:47,230 --> 01:11:50,825 had Alex getting shot and blood pouring out of him. 960 01:11:50,910 --> 01:11:53,220 And put it up for us to review at one point. 961 01:11:53,310 --> 01:11:56,223 - It kind of worked, in a way. - It was pretty funny. 962 01:12:00,230 --> 01:12:02,983 We were happy to get a barrel of monkeys into this movie. 963 01:12:03,670 --> 01:12:06,310 We started with that idea and constructed the movie around it. 964 01:12:08,310 --> 01:12:11,587 We went around and around with these telephone lines. 965 01:12:14,750 --> 01:12:17,026 What would happen. The lines change. 966 01:12:17,110 --> 01:12:21,502 So we had to keep finding twisted versions of lines going up the chain. 967 01:12:21,670 --> 01:12:23,263 You can't hear everything 968 01:12:23,350 --> 01:12:26,741 that Skywalker did with the sound with this plane. 969 01:12:26,830 --> 01:12:30,266 They did amazing stuff where they took old engines and opened them up 970 01:12:30,350 --> 01:12:32,227 and dropped microphones into them 971 01:12:32,310 --> 01:12:36,508 and hand-cranked them to get the sound of gears meshing. 972 01:12:36,590 --> 01:12:39,025 It's really cool stuff they came up with. 973 01:12:39,110 --> 01:12:42,819 Of course, there's music and dialog that covers a lot of it. 974 01:12:42,910 --> 01:12:46,744 We used to have Walking on Sunshine be the music in here as a joke. 975 01:12:46,830 --> 01:12:49,106 No one seemed to get the joke. 976 01:12:49,550 --> 01:12:53,783 Hans and his guys were trying all these different songs. 977 01:12:53,870 --> 01:12:57,864 - They hit on Copacabana, which is... - Perfect. 978 01:12:58,030 --> 01:13:00,544 - And Lola got her name. - Lola got her name. 979 01:13:03,590 --> 01:13:06,469 That's what I love about Lola, it makes it so absurd. 980 01:13:06,550 --> 01:13:07,620 It was absurd before, 981 01:13:07,710 --> 01:13:10,099 and when we added Lola, it became even more absurd. 982 01:13:17,390 --> 01:13:19,222 She's so determined. 983 01:13:19,710 --> 01:13:23,829 Throws a gun, got her magic bag. She's gonna take that plane out with her bag. 984 01:13:23,910 --> 01:13:26,584 That was Mireille's joke, the medic and the tape. 985 01:13:32,590 --> 01:13:36,060 This is probably the biggest effects shot, one they were excited to get. 986 01:13:36,150 --> 01:13:39,142 - The breaking water. - Cost hundreds of dollars. 987 01:13:39,270 --> 01:13:43,309 Hundreds. We had to have a collection for that. 988 01:13:47,470 --> 01:13:48,983 We had a different version of this. 989 01:13:49,070 --> 01:13:51,710 Sacha saw it, and thought he could do better. 990 01:13:51,790 --> 01:13:54,259 This brought the whistling back around. 991 01:13:54,350 --> 01:13:56,626 - And... - Reanimated it. 992 01:13:56,710 --> 01:14:01,546 Reanimate it, yeah. John Hill and his team. 993 01:14:02,110 --> 01:14:05,182 We had explored having lots of cutaways to Mort and this shark 994 01:14:05,270 --> 01:14:07,420 traveling through the African landscape. 995 01:14:07,670 --> 01:14:10,708 It just became too much film for us. 996 01:14:12,030 --> 01:14:15,739 A bus? Didn't he hijack a bus at some point? 997 01:14:15,830 --> 01:14:19,266 There it was, the only death in the movie. The shark. 998 01:14:22,030 --> 01:14:24,226 The gods needed a sacrifice. 999 01:14:28,630 --> 01:14:33,500 Usually, animated films kill off parents. We just killed off a shark. 1000 01:14:33,590 --> 01:14:35,979 Another beat. We had lots of, "You did it. I did. 1001 01:14:36,070 --> 01:14:38,380 "I did it 50%. You did it 60%." 1002 01:14:39,030 --> 01:14:41,260 Great Sacha beat that went on for about five minutes. 1003 01:14:41,350 --> 01:14:42,943 "The eagle has landed." 1004 01:14:43,230 --> 01:14:45,221 We used about one second of it in the end. 1005 01:14:50,870 --> 01:14:52,986 Now the fish. It's gonna be okay. 1006 01:14:55,270 --> 01:14:58,467 We went around and around on how to take care of Makunga here. 1007 01:14:58,550 --> 01:15:00,746 We had a version where Zuba took him out, 1008 01:15:00,830 --> 01:15:03,663 where Alex took him out with a dance kick. 1009 01:15:05,590 --> 01:15:11,302 We thought it would kind of make closure to Nana's story 1010 01:15:11,390 --> 01:15:14,382 - if she was the one who took him out. - Less expected. 1011 01:15:14,470 --> 01:15:15,585 Yeah. 1012 01:15:16,630 --> 01:15:19,827 We were gonna have a beat, later on at the end of the credits, 1013 01:15:19,910 --> 01:15:25,303 where Nana would be back in New York, and she'd see tourists come in 1014 01:15:25,390 --> 01:15:29,145 to JFK, and there's Makunga in a cat carrier. 1015 01:15:32,710 --> 01:15:34,860 I like their expressions in that shot. 1016 01:15:37,430 --> 01:15:40,627 This is a great bit. Just pitching the scene to Alec, 1017 01:15:40,710 --> 01:15:43,224 saying, "Alex hands you a purse." 1018 01:15:44,030 --> 01:15:49,708 He thought he should really admire it, and ad-libbed this hiking line. 1019 01:15:53,870 --> 01:15:57,306 We had to make the bag with an adjustable strap because he said that. 1020 01:15:58,070 --> 01:16:00,584 - We liked it so much. - We had to change it. 1021 01:16:04,910 --> 01:16:09,381 This scene actually went on about three times as long as it ended up. 1022 01:16:10,950 --> 01:16:15,148 It felt a little brutal. She did a lot more to him than just that. 1023 01:16:15,230 --> 01:16:17,870 We had fun thinking of all the Catholic-schoolboy things 1024 01:16:17,950 --> 01:16:19,748 the nuns used to do to you at school. 1025 01:16:19,830 --> 01:16:21,343 We had a list of all those things. 1026 01:16:21,430 --> 01:16:24,786 Our board artists love those challenges. 1027 01:16:43,310 --> 01:16:47,065 Again, we were... The animals, we wanted them to get in the water. 1028 01:16:47,150 --> 01:16:49,380 Water's really expensive, so you can't touch it. 1029 01:16:50,670 --> 01:16:53,549 Because it's a great deal of effects work there. 1030 01:16:53,630 --> 01:16:57,464 At the end, they said... They made an effort to make that happen, 1031 01:16:57,550 --> 01:16:59,223 that the animals could go in the water. 1032 01:17:09,790 --> 01:17:12,828 - Our little misdirect here. - Yeah. 1033 01:17:12,910 --> 01:17:16,665 I always liked, "For better, please." Like there's a choice. 1034 01:17:17,750 --> 01:17:20,708 Tom's always wanted to marry a hula doll, so this was his dream. 1035 01:17:20,790 --> 01:17:24,306 - Closest thing he could achieve to it. - Yep. 1036 01:17:28,710 --> 01:17:31,623 I also like that we have eight-track tape players in this movie. 1037 01:17:31,710 --> 01:17:36,500 Kids'll see that, "What's that new music technology? I gotta get one of those." 1038 01:17:42,630 --> 01:17:45,349 I love the idea of the penguins being in Monte Carlo. 1039 01:17:51,990 --> 01:17:55,460 This is one of the last scenes we recorded with Bernie, too. 1040 01:17:55,550 --> 01:17:58,986 There was a couple of lines we didn't get with him 1041 01:17:59,070 --> 01:18:00,822 before he passed, unfortunately. 1042 01:18:00,950 --> 01:18:05,581 We reviewed a lot of the material he'd done, sequences that were cut, 1043 01:18:05,670 --> 01:18:07,946 and it was great listening to all that again. 1044 01:18:08,030 --> 01:18:10,419 Just brought back many great memories of him. 1045 01:18:10,510 --> 01:18:11,739 He did this little bit. 1046 01:18:11,830 --> 01:18:16,666 Eric found this bit with him doing a little song and dance. 1047 01:18:18,550 --> 01:18:21,349 "I got you, son!" This bit here, which was great. 1048 01:18:21,470 --> 01:18:25,065 It worked better than any line we would've written. 1049 01:18:34,030 --> 01:18:37,466 These are the last shots that were done in the film. 1050 01:18:37,550 --> 01:18:41,259 It's rare in a film, where that would ever happen. 1051 01:18:41,350 --> 01:18:42,943 You jump around so much. 1052 01:18:44,990 --> 01:18:46,901 There's our little butt bite. 1053 01:18:50,550 --> 01:18:52,029 Off they go. 1054 01:18:52,990 --> 01:18:56,142 We always joked about... Eric wanted to have the butterfly 1055 01:18:56,230 --> 01:18:58,460 come in here at the end, at the beginning. 1056 01:18:58,590 --> 01:19:00,706 Thought it'd be funny to see it, then go to another 1057 01:19:00,790 --> 01:19:04,545 lion father playing with his cub. It was all the butterfly's fault. 1058 01:19:07,270 --> 01:19:09,307 Just to try and do something interesting. 1059 01:19:10,750 --> 01:19:13,583 Producers brought on Jamie Caliri at Duck Studios 1060 01:19:13,670 --> 01:19:15,707 to create something unique for the credits. 1061 01:19:15,790 --> 01:19:17,781 So they're not just a scroll. 1062 01:19:18,350 --> 01:19:21,308 It was fun to have something completely different, 1063 01:19:21,390 --> 01:19:24,826 as far away from 3D as we could. He did a great job. 1064 01:19:24,950 --> 01:19:28,864 These are actually practical paper sculptures that they did. 1065 01:19:28,950 --> 01:19:30,782 Just absolutely beautiful. 1066 01:19:33,270 --> 01:19:38,504 And we opted to put the credits here, which the cast was great about. 1067 01:19:38,630 --> 01:19:41,748 So we could just get right into our story, right away, 1068 01:19:41,830 --> 01:19:44,106 and not have a big intro. 1069 01:19:47,710 --> 01:19:50,145 When you watch these credits, 1070 01:19:50,670 --> 01:19:53,059 it's a huge long list, they may be boring, 1071 01:19:53,150 --> 01:19:54,526 but these are the people we work with, 1072 01:19:54,550 --> 01:19:56,621 who we represent when we make movies. 1073 01:19:56,710 --> 01:20:01,864 There's 400-plus people at the studio, and artists that pitch in 1074 01:20:01,950 --> 01:20:03,827 to make these movies. 1075 01:20:05,990 --> 01:20:10,029 So really enjoy the credits and know that everyone had a great deal 1076 01:20:10,110 --> 01:20:11,862 to do with this movie. 1077 01:20:20,630 --> 01:20:23,030 Thanks, everybody. Three and a half years to make this movie. 1078 01:20:23,110 --> 01:20:26,626 An incredible timeline. It was made with a lot of grit, 1079 01:20:26,710 --> 01:20:31,580 - spit and a whole lot of duct tape. - Lot of laughs and love. 1080 01:20:31,670 --> 01:20:34,139 - And tears. - And tears. And blood. 1081 01:20:34,270 --> 01:20:36,989 - And blood. - We hope you enjoy it.