What was the most challenging food to animate?
Phil: Broccoli, you may notice, is not in the film. Chris: It’s hard to render convincingly, the little mini tree of broccoli. Phil: I’m sure the Imageworks guys would want us to say, and it’s true, that they really can do anything. It’s just a matter of what you’re putting the focus on. Because broccoli wasn’t a huge factor in the movie, we decided to cut bait and do other things. Chris: Cheeseburgers were actually very difficult, because when they fell they had to break apart convincingly, and not like a rubber chew toy cheeseburger. That meant that they had to model separately, the lettuce had to have the characteristics of lettuce, and the floppiness of lettuce, and the buns had to squish a little bit and the tomato slices and the ketchup and the mustard, all the many different parts of the cheeseburger. Also the spaghetti tornado was a huge, huge project of software building and design. You seem to have a good rapport. What was your working experience like on this film? Chris: We
