National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

DreamWorks Animation released Shrek in May 2001, positioning it as a direct challenge to Disney's dominance in feature animation. Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, the film became a cultural landmark, blending fairy tale irreverence with early CGI ambition. It won the inaugural Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and launched one of animation's most successful franchises.

This cell, titled Dragon, captures two adjacent frames from the creature's purple-lit lair sequence alongside a separate frame of Princess Fiona outdoors beneath an overcast sky. The dramatic lighting of the lair frames emphasizes Dragon's open jaw and imposing presence, while Fiona's sideward glance suggests a moment of quiet tension from an earlier or later passage of the same story thread.