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explanation: jeffrey katzenberg is the founder and ceo of dreamworks animation. but before that, he worked for disney. under his belt, they produced some of their greatest hits, including beauty and the beast and the lion king. he essentially saved the disney animation department when he worked there. he’s also responsible for forming the partnership between disney and pixar.

at the time, disney was run by michael eisner, who was a laughing stock for a ceo for many reasons. short version: you know all those direct to dvd sequels we got in the late 90s early 2000s? those are his fault. 

basically there was some behind the scenes drama that involved katzenberg not being promoted and forced to leave the company.  (and after katzenberg left disney animation suffered greatly)

in turn, he pretty much said “fuck you”, and called up his buddy steven spielberg and together they formed dreamworks animation to directly compete against disney. and it did not go as planned. despite making prince of egypt, which was a really good movie, most of the films they made were huge studio losses. 

this is when katzenberg realized that 2D animation just wasn’t going to cut it anymore. the film they were putting out were obvious disney rip-offs and crowds noticed that. 

this is how shrek is born. an entire franchise making fun of fairytale tropes, mixed in with raunchy jokes and gross out jokes that disney didn’t often include in their films. shrek was put into development as early as 1995 (to compare, dreamworks was founded in 1994). the movie was made as a giant “fuck you” to both disney and michael eisner. 

lord farquaad is rumored to be directly based off michael eisner. farquaad sounds similar to “fuckwad” and they are both power hungry assholes who like to take credit for the successes of other people. the only thing they don’t have in common is height, as eisner is pretty tall, but rumor has it, michael eisner hates short people. so this was the ultimate insult. the revenge song. shrek is the animated  equivalent of “jagged little pill” by alanis morisette. the “we are never ever getting back together” of film. 

vibrates in treasure planet

i KNOW the spacewhales look weird but THE CYBORG

Originally posted by theproblematicblogger

LOOK AT IT

(all the robot parts are cgi, everything else is 2D)

Originally posted by brovie96

HOW SEAMLESS

i can’t find a good gif of his leg but u get the picture

The boat behind him is CGI, too