And Rocky was very influenced by Mel and the character he played in Maverick. At the end of 'A Close Shave' we developed a new way of doing it quicker. You need to start with the voice track and break it down into frames, 24ths of a second. I'm talking about here. On Chicken Run we have gone even further.
Every single character has their own set of beaks or mouth replacements.
The animator has to replace the mouth shape for every single frame - it has sped things up a great deal. Thats always puzzled me. In Chicken Run there is rain, smoke, fire and a lake. In all those cases they are done by Computer Generated Animation but when the rain is falling and hitting chickens we actually animate glycerin to hit the chickens. We super-impose rain falling onto the shot.