Racing Stripes

(2005)

Creating talking animals required a significant amount of research and development into phonemes and visemes since the director wanted the animals to "act" more realistically and less cartoon-like.

After designing mouth shapes, Hybride developed a new approach for head and mouth texturing where live footage was projected onto an animal's head to make process easier and the texturing more realistic. As for animating tiny files, Hybride artists created close-up details and textures for visually accurate torsos, fluttering wings and body hair. The results, of course, speak for themselves.

Racing Stripes
Racing Stripes