Before a single frame was shot, each scene was meticulously prepared, camera moves designed, animal co-stars roughly animated, detailed lighting plans made, and models of terrain and trees arranged into technical plans. MPC were involved from the film’s very beginnings. A team of senior artists, led by MPC VFX Supervisor Adam Valdez and VFX Producer Philip Greenlow, travelled from London to Los Angeles to help visualize and plan the script and storyboard development and guide the filming on set. MPC’s visual effects team developed characters, worked out just how they would talk, and began crafting the movies full CG environments
