Another challenge was animating the feathers on Kevin, the bird character in "Up." While Pixar has mastered animating flowing fur ("Monsters, Inc.") and underwater imagery ("Finding Nemo"), it had to figure out how to use procedural animation for something as interdependent as a bird's feathers.
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