Linux behind the magic of Shrek 2

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DreamWorks, the animation company behind Shrek 2, has raised the curtain on the technology which made the blockbuster possible.

Linux played a key role in creating the film, which had its London premiere yesterday and enjoyed the biggest opening weekend ever for an animated film on its release in the US.

DreamWorks needed as much computing power as possible to implement newly developed computer graphics techniques.

These included subsurface scattering for more realistic skin, global illumination for more realistic lighting, better looking hair and larger crowd scenes with more complex characters than seen in the original Shrek.