And China can pick up animation techniques and merchandise promotion skills from Dreamworks.

Ingenious animation techniques made the tractor appear to be moving.

He said advances in animation techniques made it possible to bring emotion to rodents and smaller animals.

He wrote and re-wrote his own script, taught himself computer- and old-school animation techniques and rendered the film, all in his apartment.

Filoni said that's at least partly because of improved animation techniques, which have boosted productivity while generating character models he called "much more expressive."