A closer look
Computer graphics engineers working on Disney's The Lion King spent over three agonizing years writing an entirely new software program just to animate the two and a half minute wildebeest stampede scene so the animals would not constantly clip through each other. Three entire years of human innovation, massive budgets, and endless coding went into making sure a giant herd of digital cows could murder James Earl Jones with absolute physical accuracy. Think about the incredible patience required to stare at a computer screen in the early nineties, meticulously plotting the trajectory of animated hooves, all to traumatize an entire generation of millennials who still cannot listen to the movie soundtrack without needing to call their therapists
