National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

DreamWorks Animation released Shrek in May 2001, marking a turning point for computer-animated features and challenging Disney's long dominance of the genre. Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, the film earned the inaugural Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and became a defining cultural artifact of the early 2000s, launching one of animation's most successful franchises.

This cell, titled Shrek, captures the film's titular ogre across three consecutive frames from a low-angle, dramatically lit sequence. The framing emphasizes Shrek's imposing physical presence against a dark environment, with subtle positional shifts between frames preserving the motion of the original shot. It is a quiet but characteristically expressive moment from one of animation's most recognizable figures.