Do you need an animated logo or
character? Are looking for 3D animation for your film, short,
commercial, corporate video, music video, or website?
Fruits VS Bugs:
The Animation Empire works with each
client to meet the unique needs of that specific production. Through
daily interactions (or less regular, if desired), we show the work
to our clients and gain feedback as we go. We begin by designing the
characters/logo or finding source images of the characters/logo. We
then model the character or logo in 3D, we apply texture, color, and
patterns to the models, and then animate the models. Finally, we
light the environments. The designs, models, textures, animations,
and even lighting are created according to the style needed for each
production (cartoony, realistic, in a specific environment, etc.).
The Animation Empire has completed 3D
logos and character animations for direct-to-
video cartoons, corporate events,
websites, YouTube, and cell-phone downloadable cartoons. For our
experience in music videos and short film, please see "Special
Effects" on the upper left. For our experience in videogames and websites,
please see the appropriate buttons on the upper left.
Take a look at the process involved in
some of our projects:
Dig into the
process of making 3D fruits that fight 3D bugs.
John at the Park
What happens
when a man at a park runs into Mike Tyson and his poodle?
Money Tree
Caterpillars
that build a terminator monkey in order to... time travel?
MGM Logo
Music Guitar
Man's logo that references the original MGM roaring lion.
The animators at The Animation Empire
have degrees from various universities and
colleges, including DigiPen Institute
of Technology (associated with Nintendo, it resides in Redmond, WA).
Their work experience includes companies like IBM and Microsoft.
Some of our animators have gone on to model and animate for videogames,
including the Godzilla series, the Mario Striker series, and more.
The Animation Empire uses different
software and technology to produce our 3D animations, depending on each specific job. Among others,
our software includes 3D Studio Max, Maya, Blender, Anim8or, Photoshop, Premiere,
and Movie Maker.
Shrek is an animated feature based upon William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book of the same name. It was directed by New Zealander Andrew Adamson and animated by DreamWorks Animation SKG in May 2001. It was the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001.
The name Shrek likely comes from the Yiddish word שרעק (pronounced Shreck) or the German word Schreck, in either case meaning "fear" or "terror".
The film features the voices of Mike Myers as a large, strong, peace-loving yet grumpy green ogre named Shrek, Cameron Diaz as the beautiful but very down-to-earth and feisty Princess Fiona, Eddie Murphy as a talkative donkey named Donkey, and John Lithgow as the villainous Lord Farquaad. Chris Farley was originally going to do the voice for Shrek and did at least half of the audio for the voice, but died before the project was completed. Dreamworks then re-cast the voice role to Mike Myers. After Myers had completed providing the voice for the character and the movie was well into production, he asked to be allowed to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent similar to the one his mother used when she told him bedtime stories. Myers had also employed this character voicing for a skit during his Saturday Night Live tenure, and also for the character Stuart MacKenzie in the motion picture So I Married an Axe Murderer.
