A closer look
Mud animation in Shrek took so long to perfect that the lead animator actually took showers in real mud to study its physics. DreamWorks poured an ungodly amount of money and time into making sure the ogre's swamp looked incredibly realistic, which is a hilarious use of cutting-edge technology when you consider the movie is basically an endless string of fart jokes and Smash Mouth songs. It really makes you appreciate how modern cinema utilizes millions of dollars and countless hours of highly skilled human labor just to ensure a fictional green monster has the absolute perfect viscosity of sludge dripping off his perfectly rendered giant behind
