Question: What type of visual technique does Impossible Pictures and Beauty and the Beast have in common?

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March of the Dinosaurs: March of the Dinosaurs is a CGI film which has appeared on television and was released on DVD on 27 May 2011.  It was made by Impossible Pictures, the same company that created the "Walking with..." series and Prehistoric Park.  Set 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous in North America, the film follows the journey of a young "Edmontosaurus" named Scar and his herd as they migrate south for the winter.  This film depicts recent findings and speculation about Dinosaurs, such as North-American Tyrannosaurs having feathers, and hunting in packs, dinosaurs in the snow and migrating.

Impossible Pictures (US): Impossible Pictures (Impossible) is a Denver-based production company and creative studio.  Founded by Joel Pilger in 1994 under the name Visual Approach, Inc., the company began as a 3D animation studio.  Visual Approach's first project was a 3D animated broadcast show open for the Charlotte Hornets NBA team.  Other early projects included a 3D show open/title sequence for Walt Disney Television's " ("sequel to "Beauty and the Beast)", a 3D animated campaign for JWT client Ford's "Year End Clearance", and a show open/title sequence for Universal Studios' (sequel to "Balto").

Deep Pal: Deep Pal (born April 16, 1953) is an Indian cinematographer.  He is the son of publicist Colin Pal and grand-son of director Niranjan Pal.  Pal is known as being one of the pioneers of Steadicam camerawork in India.  Pal's first major Steadicam work was in "Shiva", which was considered a pathbreaking film on visual technique in Telugu cinema.  His later work included "Bandit Queen" directed by Shekhar Kapur and "Dil Se. . " directed by Mani Ratnam.

Chloë Leland: Chloë Leland is an award-winning writer, director, executive producer and VFX specialist.  She is also daughter of British film director and writer David Leland.  She became first notable for playing Emily Lloyd's younger sister in David Leland's directional debut "Wish You Were Here" in 1987.  She later worked for Working Title as a researcher and as a location scout on the movie "Land Girls" (1998).  Since that time she has produced, directed and shot documentaries and drama for television, including some of the highest-rated series for the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.  She worked as camera operator on multi-award-winning feature "Concert for George" and produced and directed "Walking with Monsters", for which she won at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in the category "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)" and a VES as well as being nominated for a BAFTA and RTS.  Her next series, "Fight For Life", received extremely high ratings for BBC1, as well as winning BAFTA, RTS and VES awards.  In 2010 she was once again Emmy-nominated for the critically acclaimed "America – Story of Us" (the record-breaking, top rating US series), on which she worked as series VFX creative director.  She has held high-level positions with some of the UK's top production companies, such as head of development for Impossible Pictures and creative director for Jane Root's "Nutopia".  As development executive for the BBC Specialist Factual and other independent companies, Leland has originated and developed reams of commissioned series and specials.  She has written for factual and fully scripted television and authored children's books.

Impossible Pictures: Impossible Pictures Ltd. is a London-based independent TV production company founded in 2002 by Tim Haines, creator of "Walking with Dinosaurs", and Jasper James.

Beauty and the Beast (1991 film): Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.  The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (who was also credited in the English version as well as in the French version), and ideas from the 1946 French film of the same name directed by Jean Cocteau.  "Beauty and the Beast" focuses on the relationship between the Beast (voice of Robby Benson), a prince who is magically transformed into a monster and his servants into household objects as punishment for his arrogance, and Belle (voice of Paige O'Hara), a young woman whom he imprisons in his castle.  To become a prince again, Beast must learn to love Belle and earn her love in return to avoid remaining a monster forever.  The film also features the voices of Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Angela Lansbury.

Walking with...: The Walking with... series (also known as the Trilogy of Life or Walking with Prehistoric Life series) is a collection of shows that are produced by the BBC and are made by Impossible Pictures.  The aim of the series and specials, along with its books, is to recreate extinct animals and presents them as a wildlife documentary.  All the shows (with the exception of "Chased by Dinosaurs" and "Sea Monsters") focus on one individual of a certain species or that species as the main characters in each episode.  Creatures were realized through computer graphics and animatronics and are directed by Tim Haines.  The concept for the series was imagined by Tim Haines and Jasper James.

Gradation (art): Gradation in art is a visual technique of gradually transitioning from one colour hue to another, or from one shade to another, or one texture to another.  Space, distance, atmosphere, volume, and curved or rounded forms are some of the visual effects created with gradation.

Primeval: New World: Primeval: New World is a Canadian–British science fiction television program, set in Vancouver, British Columbia, created by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.  A co-production between Impossible Pictures and Omni Film Productions for Space, the show is a spin-off of the British series "Primeval".  However, the two shows have little to do with each other.  It was broadcast on Space in Canada, and on Watch in the United Kingdom.  As with "Primeval", the premise of "Primeval: New World" involves a team who has to deal with animals from the past and future that travel through time to the present day through anomalies.  On 21 February 2013, it was announced that the series had been cancelled after a single season.

List of creatures by Impossible Pictures: The following is a complete list of prehistoric creatures from the universe of the "Walking with..." series documentary, science fiction and fantasy television programmes, companion books and also any spin-off merchandise.  Most of the shows produced by Impossible Pictures with BBC Worldwide and Discovery Channel in association with ProSieben and France 3 and created by Tim Haines and Jasper James.  They used visual effects teams such as Framestore, The Mill and Jellyfish Pictures to bring back extinct creatures to life.

Supporting paragraphs: Impossible Pictures (US) Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
Answer: animation