'The Art of Ratatouille'

"I think right from the start everyone fell in love with Carter's drawings, but we weren't sure we could pull it off. His designs have a very bottom-heavy, beanbag kind of quality to them. And it's always been hard for us, technically speaking, to do really short-legged characters, where the knees are up above where the bottom of the 'pants' are-it's hard to articulate the models to behave properly when you have all that extra material wrapped around the moving parts. It's too laborious to re-create those complicated real-life anatomical systems in the computer, and it's almost as difficult to just do a simplified version and make it feel right. But Carter's designs were so appealing; I really wanted to make sure we hung on to that baggy, poopy-pants quality. The modelers had to go in and hand sculpt everything time and time again, but they did beautiful work, and in the end it turned out really well." Jason Deamer- Character Designer page24