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		Everyone's Hero (Continued from Page 2 )
		“I hope that as we go forward, a hallmark of our style will be diversity,” says chief creative officer Jerry Davis. “Costs are going down, in terms of hardware and productivity of off-the-shelf software, and also by virtue of production discipline. So there are opportunities to take bigger risks with animated movies and not be restricted to tried and true formulas. We’re also building a studio that is very filmmaker-driven. Having really strong points of view among our directors will make each of our movies very unique. And if we allow filmmakers to take their first instinct and go with it, we can make movies for less money and still be successful.”	Jerry Davis
		Davis had come from supervising production at Blue Sky for seven years, and before that had worked at Warner Bros. “I worked on Iron Giant,” he adds, “and I feel that Everyone’s Hero has a lot of the heart and tone that Iron Giant has.” Almost 400 people worked on the film in total between the offices in Newark and the studios in Burbank, Toronto and Israel. The animation was done in Maya with Photoshop art. Rendering was done with Mental Ray, while Avid was used for editing. The total cost is reportedly far less than the usual $100 million price tag of most CG films. Altogether, the film took less than two years to make, and about a year for production alone. “It wasn’t simply because we wanted to rush the film,” assures Gladstone, “it’s because we have a different view of how these films could be made. We were very conscious about moving this movie through and sticking with our decisions. Because of this, we were able to make the movie very efficiently, still make it look great, and tell a good story.”	Frank Gladstone
		One of the biggest challenges of the production was the loss of the film’s visionary. After Christopher Reeve’s passing, the production took about six weeks to regroup. “When he passed away,” says Kurtz, “it was very, very hard. But Chris wasn’t a quitter, and I had to remind myself of that a lot. I found myself missing him, and even talking to him during story meetings. For a long time Dana was our bridge to Chris, and then when we lost her too, our bridge was the movie itself.”
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