![]() * Jerry Seinfeld was not overly familiar with the animation process, so Jeffrey Katzenberg gave him a crash course-Making Animated Movies 101-and mentored him through production. He wondered how bees would react if they knew that humans were taking and selling their invaluable product…and that’s where the idea for “Bee Movie”’s storyline came from. * Jerry Seinfeld has always been fascinated with bees: their shape, color, the fact that they create something as amazing as honey (they are only bugs after all). The deal was done before Jerry even knew it, and the four-year journey of making “BEE Movie” had begun Steven loved the idea and the title and immediately phoned Katzenberg after dinner telling him to get a hold of Seinfeld ASAP. Then one night over dinner with his Hamptons neighbor, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, a break in the conversation resulted in Seinfeld announcing that he had an idea for an animated film called “BEE Movie”. * Jeffrey Katzenberg had been trying to convince Jerry Seinfeld for more than 12 years to be in an animated film, but Seinfeld wasn’t really interested in acting in a movie – even an animated one. ![]() In the five or so shots where these groups are together, more than 1,000,000 million bees are onscreen. ![]() Around 750,000 bees carry the plane, and about 350,000 bees form the flower pattern on the ground. * Now THAT’S a lot of BEES! It is no exaggeration to say that the animation team created upwards of one million bees for “Bee Movie,” specifically in the sequence where the bees help to land the jet. * It took four years to make “Bee Movie” and over one million man hours to animate it, with an estimated 25 million render hours used during the course of the production…that’s five times more than the original “Shrek.” Movies.ie went behind the scenes of this animated hit to gather these eye opening facts…
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