SUBMITTED BY Fred Hill

May 25, 2005 —

DreamWorks didn't want the animation to look too perfect for the movie, so they added a little animation history to the movements of all of the characters.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The art of making a 21st-century animated cartoon will never be the same again.

That is because the new comedy Madagascar - a magical mystery tour with zoo animals - makes such a significant breakthrough in digital animation that it will, in the words of one animator, "blow the doors off" what is possible.

Oddly enough, DreamWorks animators had to go back to the past to create their new future. "We wanted to harken back to the old days of animation when it was really snappy movement with the 'squash and stretch' - really quick stuff," Rex Grignon says in a recent interview in San Francisco, where DreamWorks chose to meet the press...

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