To me the image looks like the background was painted in Corel Painter or Photoshop and the two characters were stills taken from a 3d model and pasted onto the background. They might have filtered parts of the character to make it blend more though but the nose and tail don't looke like they were ...

No, it's obviously not. First of all, you can easily tell that the characters are CG in the HD version of the image. And secondly, like Ben said, why in the world would they release a painting instead of a CGI image for this without specifying so? Conceptual paintings have been released before we s...

The whole thing is painted.

Umm. Are you guys nuts? This is not a CG render. It is concept artwork that was drawn.

Ben wrote:Looks like standard 1.78:1 to me. I'd be very surprised if it was 2.35:1. It would be very cool, but I'd be very surprised.

it's 2.35 (well, actually 2.4)

It is said that DreamWorks is a producer driven company. Not a director driven company. At least it used to be that way (the producer is the creative driving force and the director just drives the bus). Somehow I can't imagine Sanders in this role. Unless Katzenburg has suddenly changed his mind on ...

As of right now, this film is still CG. Chris was removed because the story wasn't going the way that Lasseter wanted fast enough. Chris had his opinions, John had his and the two didn't agree. Chris was canned. There are still plenty of CG people on this film. So. As of right now. It is still CG. J...