Cartoon Kitty Purrs with Life
Computer Animation Program Takes 12 Months to Produce Garfield
Post film production animation took more than 12 months. The animators produced an animation program that showed the musculature of the figure so that movement was as lifelike as possible. The first computer animation program generated shots of the film that featured Garfield as a grey, boxy figure, with little internal movement and virtually no features. Next, the figure was developed using the computer animation program so that it appeared lifelike in terms of movement and expression, but still in grey. Later, the animation programmers added color and texture to the figure, as well as lighting and luminescence effects.Visually, the final version of Garfield was fairly true to the original strip cartoon, with good expression and movement. Whether you could suspend disbelief enough to inhabit the world of Garfield for the length of the film is another question entirely.
