After doing a few blogs now, I have realized that I enjoy discussing animation a lot more then live-action film. The one that I would like to talk about today is Walt Disney's The Lion King (1994). The reason I think I should discuss this particular animated film is because it is one of the first hand rendered animated films to utilize computer graphics. This is most expertly done in the scene with the wildebeest stampede. This was an incredible addition and CG effect that made this particular point in the film all the more realistic and heart pounding. In this scene, the background and all other characters are completely hand rendered. The wildebeests however, were created in a 3D program based on a hand drawing of one wildebeest. This one 3D character became hundreds of animals each with their own shadow. In order to make these images blend in with the rest of the animation, they were given strong lines to imitate ink lines, and they were given very similar colors that did not vary too obviously. In order to prevent these 3D wildebeests from running through one another, Disney animators created a computer program that prevented this from happening and did all of their test scenes with pink and blue wildebeests to discuss specific images at any given point. These bright colors gave animators the ability to change the path of any given wildebeest with ease. Not only was this film important in this aspect, according to one website, it was also an original Disney story, and there are absolutely no human characters in it. Both of these additional bits of information make The Lion King an even more amazing film, and one of my all time favorites.