European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 stabs and stripes sunday apr 22 2007 Page 13 o a cd o 33 a q King Shrek Hollywood favorite ogre making regal return in Likely summer smash time to catch up with your ogre Friend Shrek his greenish Bride Fiona and their two men Friday the yammering Donkey and the overreaching puss in boots the filmmakers behind Shrek the third offered a sneak peek at their  animation Complex near san Francisco from the 20 minutes of footage they showed the film looks Likely to meet expectations As one of Summers hottest tickets key voice stars Mike Myers Eddie Murphy Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas return with Justin Timber Lake headlining the newcomers As Geeky teenager Artie you feel youve got a lot to live up to Man Timberlake said about being the new kid on the Block in the Shrek world every character is so Good when you come into Shrek you definitely feel you have a lot to prove the gang is joined by a Garg Anfu an cast As the filmmakers take advantage of advances in computer Anima Tion to Load up on supporting play ers among them magician Merlin Captain Hook wicked witches ugly stepsisters and four of the fairytale worlds fairest princesses heres a rundown of the players and their exploits for the film that hits stateside Heaters May 18 and base Heaters beginning May 25 whats happening just when newlyweds Shrek and Fiona thought they could head Home to peace and quiet in the swamp fio Nas dad the Frog King Harold croaks on his deathbed he asks Soninlaw Shrek to take Over the throne of far far a Job the ogre dreads Shrek Only option track Down Fiona Distant Cousin Artie and Groom him to become King so Shrek and sidekicks Donkey and puss sail away to find Artie the future King Arthur just As they leave Fiona drops another bomb on her antisocial kid hating husband theres a Little ogre on the Way Fiona stays behind at the Palace where Snow White sleeping Beauty Cinderella and Rapunzel throw her a Matt Baer above head of effects for Shrek the third and Nick Walker below head of layout for the highly anticipated flick work at the pm dream works animation Complex in Redwood City Calif earlier this month the film looks Likely to meet expectations As one of Summers hottest tickets baby Shower the gifts include one of the seven dwarfs As a liven baby Sitter worry Snow White Leiis Fiona i have six More at Palace life is interrupted by an invasion of fairytale villains led by Prince charming whose Happy Ever after was dashed by Shrek in the first two films the Prince takes Over the realm forcing Fiona to teach her posse of pampered princesses to stand up for themselves rather than wait for a Man to Rescue them a big part of this film is just the theme of taking responsibility be it fatherhood or kingship or whatever said Nick Walker head of layout on the animation team for Shrek the third who Back the whole gang returns led by the key foursome of Shrek Donkey Fiona Diaz and puss in boots ban Shrek still Barking at everyone in his scottish Brogue though married life brings out his softer Side More and More what i love about the scottish people which is part of my heritage is they go from i love you come to you get out of my House Myers said scottish people Are hilarious when there angry they shift gears so fast also Back Fiona mom Queen Lillian Julie Andrews who in a dizzy moment hums my favorite things tune she Sang in the sound of King Harold John villainous Prince charming Rupert and ugly Stepsister Doris Larry it  be a Shrek movie without All those goofy bit players including the three Little pigs pinocchio and the Gingerbread Man the minor characters were so much fun the filmmakers said they had to rein them in or they might have taken Over Ginger tries to steal the show said Shrek the third co director Raman Hui who new the main new face is Arthur Pendragon or Artie a bumbling teen who first seen getting his butt kicked by Jock Lancelot in a jousting match at his High school when Shrek Donkey and puss arrive with the news that arties in line to become a King it swells his head after a lifetime spent a rung lower on the social scale than the school dorks who play a medieval variation of dungeons and dragons he Doest know anything but kind of being a loser Timberlake said when he finds out through his blood line that Hes her to the throne he thinks i can do this but when he realizes what Type of responsibility it is his natural instinct is to run away Timberlake whose poster appears As a gag on Fiona bedroom Wall in Shrek 2 recently split in real life Paramount pictures dream works animation above in a scene from the compute generated movie Shrek the third Are from Center to left Shrek voiced by Mike Myers puss in boots voiced by Antonio Banderas Cousin Artie voiced by Justin Timberlake and Donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy computer animation has improved since the first Shrek was released in 2001 in the past we had issues where our hero characters looked great because we spent so much time on them but the generic characters the secondaries didst look quite so Good to the Point where on Shrek 1 we tried to stay away from them said visual effects supervisor Phil Ippe Gluckman now they All look great left Guillaume Aretos production designer for the movie works on a Model set at the  animation Complex from Diaz but it was not their person Al relationship that led to the Shrek the third gig the filmmakers rang him up after catching Timberlake on saturday night live we had seen him on sol and were blown away by How funny he was said Shrek the third producer Aron Warner Hes got a great presence and a great voice and is clearly funny so Hes going to help us make this character what he needed to be Shrek Donkey and puss also run across magician Merlin Eric who used to be a teacher at arties school until he had a nervous break Down other newcomers include the quartet of princesses haughty Snow White Amy longhaired Rapunzel Maya obsessive clean Freak Cinderella Amy Sedar and narcoleptic sleeping Beauty Cheri it was a juggling act for the film makers with so Many new and re turning characters competing for screen time they stuck to one Princi ple to balance it All Shrek is going to drive the Story that is our goal from Day one said Chris Miller who moves up from head of Story on the last movie to make his directing debut on Shrek the third when you have All these charac ters a lot of them you want to spend a lot of time with there interesting they All have a place in this film but at the end of the Day its supporting Shrek Story whats better with three More years of refinements to computer animation what int better about Shrek the the 350 people who worked on the film created More realistic fire and water images developed ways to mimic How Light behaves in the real world and even simulated the slightly seasick oscillations of live action shipboard scenes where the camera lags just a tick behind the rocking of the Waves they scrapped the Basic computer models of Shrek and other Lead characters they had worked with since the first movie and rebuilt them from inside out to take advantage of the subtler Anatomy now possible the filmmakers had to resist the urge to make external improvements so they could remain True to the look of the original film we had a lot of work to try to make the characters look the same be better but look the same said Lucia Modesto one of the films Char Acter technical direction supervisors the motor inside Shrek is All bran new the outside is almost the same greater variation in hair styles body types facial features and cloth ing allowed the team to bring in far More characters and present huge crowd scenes in the past we had issues where our hero characters looked great because we spent so much time on them but the generic characters the secondaries didst look quite so Good to the Point where on Shrek 1 we tried to stay away from them said visual effects supervisor Philippe Gluckman now they All look it great the advances Are a bit daunting to the actors who jokingly wonder if they could be replaced in live action films by computer simulations it makes me shake in my pants Banderas said someday they May not need actors anymore that Why in going to Broadway Man