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00:00The End
00:30Hi, Mr. Romano.
00:40Hey, hey.
00:41I'm Hank.
00:42Hank, how are you?
00:42Everybody calls me Scooter.
00:43Ah, okay. Scooter?
00:45Yeah.
00:45What's with the camera?
00:46Oh, that's a behind-the-scenes crew.
00:49We're doing a behind-the-scenes of the behind-the-scenes?
00:51Uh, yeah.
00:52Okay.
00:54All right.
00:56So that's it, huh?
00:57That's it.
00:58Yeah.
00:59Oh, here's the script.
01:01Hi, I'm Ray Romano, and I'm here in the frozen tundra to give you a first look at the new movie Ice Age.
01:08Yeah.
01:09Was this, was it written for me, this thing?
01:11Uh, yeah.
01:12Just because people are going to expect funny, you know?
01:16Oh, oh.
01:17You got to read things before you say yes to them.
01:19You know, I know it's kind of late in the game, but I'm wondering maybe, is there like a better way we can open this?
01:23Maybe.
01:24We are the weirdest shirt I have ever seen.
01:47Ow!
01:48You going to get some of this?
01:49No, I already ate.
01:50Yeah.
01:51That's good right there.
01:52Right there?
01:52Yeah.
01:53All right.
01:54That's not mammoth meat, is it?
01:55No, that's chicken.
01:56I know, as a joke, I play a mammoth in the movie.
02:02Oh, right.
02:04You know, when they told me they wanted me to do Ice Age, at first I said, yeah, you know, my idea of fun is not freezing my butt off in sub-arctic temperatures.
02:12I thought Ice Age was one of those cool computer animated movies.
02:17Yes, Scooter.
02:18That's, I was just joking there again.
02:21It was, you're going to film me eating?
02:24Prepare for the Ice Age.
02:27Ice Age?
02:28I've heard of these crackpots.
02:29Sub-arctic temperatures will force us underground for a billion, billion years.
02:33Oh, that's perfect.
02:35It's during the Ice Age, where all the other animals are heading south.
02:42I'm not going.
02:46And Manfred is heading north, just because everyone else is heading south.
02:52Move your issues off the road!
02:55If my trunk was that small, I wouldn't draw attention to myself, pal.
02:59And meets up with Sid.
03:00Get off me!
03:01Sid is like a thorn in Manny's side.
03:03Check the sound.
03:05He's doing it for attention, just ignore him.
03:07Sid is really lovable.
03:08Just one of those guys who is always a little lazy, a little self-interested.
03:14Excuse me, ladies.
03:16You just keep marinating and I'll be right back.
03:20And they end up finding a baby.
03:23We should return him.
03:24So it's their journey to find the tribe of humans.
03:29And along the way, they meet up with Diego.
03:31You two are a bit of an odd couple.
03:33There is no us.
03:35I see.
03:35You can't have one of your own, so you want to adopt.
03:37You know, a saber-toothed tiger.
03:39Good looking.
03:39Loved by men.
03:41Adored by women.
03:42Oh yeah, nice try, bucktoot.
03:44You calling me a liar?
03:45I didn't say that.
03:46You were thinking it.
03:48I don't like this cat.
03:49He reads mine.
03:52We thought, well, what's the best way to give the Ice Age a presence?
03:56Let's set it against one of the animals you might find there.
03:59So we came up with this hapless, saber-toothed squirrel that's just trying to bury his nut like all squirrels do for the winter.
04:06It's a comedy of peril, and he's the third star.
04:18He goes through one kind of Roger Rabbit or Wile E. Coyote situation after another.
04:22So, who is the hardest person to work with on the movie?
04:32Ah, I'm not one for gossip.
04:35Besides, they were great.
04:36It was a great cast.
04:37Very funny cast.
04:38Yeah.
04:38Well, wait a minute.
04:40Do you know that character Scrat?
04:43That little saber-toothed squirrely thingy that runs across through the movie?
04:48Oh, okay.
04:48Yeah, he ticked me off.
04:50Kept upstaging all my scenes.
04:53But everybody else was good.
04:54Leguizamo, Leary, they were all amazing, yeah.
04:57But that little chump, Scrat.
05:04It's a lot of fun trying to see who out there would match the characters.
05:08And I think we got great voices for our movie.
05:11They're all bringing their own special thing to each role.
05:14You're an embarrassment to nature.
05:16Do you know that?
05:17Ray has a great comedy voice, but he also has a little bit of reserved cynicism.
05:24It was fun just playing this character.
05:26I mean, you know, on TV I play this kind of guy who tries to get everybody to love him.
05:31And here's this personality who doesn't care about anyone.
05:34Thanks for waiting.
05:35Three, two, one.
05:41Sure is faithful.
05:43I didn't like the fact that after the first time they saw me, they said we have to make his trunk bigger.
05:49What's up?
05:50Hey, does this look like a petting zoo to you, huh?
05:51John has a little streetish delivery that makes Sid a slow mover and a fast talker.
06:01These are those important animation moments.
06:04Don't spear me!
06:05Oh!
06:06Oh!
06:07Oh!
06:08This is a problem.
06:10What I did was just did all kinds of voices.
06:12I did deep, really deep voices.
06:13I did southern voices.
06:15And then eventually I saw a sculpture of it and I saw the teeth and I figured, you know, those big teeth.
06:20If you have big teeth, it would make you kind of talk a little bit like this.
06:23So we started going with the lateral lisp and so I ended up talking like this as Sid the Sloth.
06:28It's okay, look, the tigers are just playing tag with the antelope with their teeth.
06:35Come on, Sid, let's play tag.
06:38You're angry.
06:39We thought of Dennis Leary when we had our character because he puts on a real tough exterior, but you can tell that he really cares.
06:46And he brought that to Diego.
06:48Okay.
06:49You don't work with the other people.
06:51You're not in the room with the other people.
06:52And the timing, it's very hard to imagine the timing work, but it does.
06:55Diego, spit that out.
06:56You don't know where it's been.
06:59Boy, for a second there, I actually thought you were going to eat me.
07:03I don't eat junk food.
07:04You kind of revert back to when you're a child and playing in your room and you got imaginary friends.
07:09Did you have an imaginary friend?
07:11I had an imaginary friend.
07:13I still have one.
07:14Hi, Stoney.
07:15How are you?
07:16That's it.
07:17You're out of the herd.
07:18I guess they want to use the snow effect during the part of the special where they highlight the research that went into creating the world of the Ice Age, you know?
07:25Yeah.
07:26Give it that sort of air of authenticity.
07:28Mm-hmm.
07:33Yeah, that'll play.
07:34If we're going to make a movie about the Ice Age, that the Ice Age itself should be a character.
07:44And we started concentrating on mammoths and sloths and tigers and saber-toothed squirrels that lived there.
07:51We started from, like, the drawings.
07:56We started from, like, just to get a feel for what kind of characters we're going to be working with.
08:00We looked at a lot of books, museum and natural history, and we went through the Ice Age part of it, which was amazing.
08:06Hey, yeah!
08:07Hey, look at that.
08:08Dinner and a show.
08:09I know that some of our colleagues at other studios, when they set a movie in Paris, they'd take a trip around the world with their sketch pads and they'd draw.
08:17Ours happens in a world that passed away 20,000 years ago, and so about all we had available to us was a trip to the American Museum of Natural History where the mammoths and sloth bones are.
08:28We're putting sloths on the map.
08:30Yeah, why don't you make it realistic and draw him lying down and make him rounder.
08:34Ha, ha, I forgot how to laugh.
08:37We should be as accurate as we can when we portray the Ice Age for our audience because people really haven't been there before.
08:43They should know that it really wasn't that long ago, and our anthropologist told us that, you know, really, pretty much, you can do anything you want.
08:50Just please don't put any dinosaurs in the movie.
08:53There weren't any dinosaurs.
08:54They were millions of years ago.
08:56How do we know it's the Night Age?
08:58Because, of all, the ice!
09:07You sure I need the hood?
09:09Here's your soda, Mr. Romano.
09:11Oh, thank you.
09:12Oh, can I get some ice?
09:13There's no ice.
09:15On this set?
09:16Are you kidding me?
09:17It melted.
09:20Alright, whatever.
09:21Alright, listen to this.
09:22How does this sound?
09:24Taking the research and bringing it all to life was just a simple matter of state-of-the-art computer animation.
09:30What we've seen happen recently is a growing excitement about computer-generated imagery.
09:43And this film has really spectacular visuals.
09:47When I heard that Chris Wedge was going to direct it, they gave me a video of his work, which is Bunny that won the Oscar, the animated short, and it was fantastic.
09:54It was so funny and sad and so lifelike.
09:58At Blue Sky, we've been developing animation technology for about 15 years.
10:03We've been focusing the technology on character animation, playing it to TV commercials and effects in movies.
10:09So we did Aliens for Alien Resurrection and we did things for Star Trek and a movie called Joe's Apartment, which I happen to love, singing and dancing cockroaches.
10:18Ew! Yuck! Ew! I mean, my goodness!
10:23The software we've developed is a much more complete simulation of the way light works in the world.
10:34We have engineers on our staff that understand the physics of energy and light and they program this into the software so it looks like something that could be in the room with you.
10:45Touch me and you're dead.
10:47No, you say that but you don't mean it.
10:50In computerized animation, you do the voice and then they try to imagine what you would look like saying those things.
10:55We have the soundtrack in the scene where we're working with it constantly.
11:00How they deliver the line is how we know how much emphasis to put on a certain motion.
11:05There's the baby.
11:08There he is!
11:10You have a very cruel sense of humor.
11:12One, two, three.
11:13Computers do a lot of work but fortunately it's the busy work.
11:18The animators act.
11:20The computer really has become more of the strings on the puppet or the pencil for the artist.
11:25At night computers here busily coloring in the pictures.
11:28As animators we all got a little bit of actors inside of us and then we have to convince the people that the characters are really acting.
11:33It's like you have bad acting, good acting and we're hoping that our animation is good acting and we push for that.
11:38Spoilers!
11:39Worthy of such a noble!
11:40The whole movie is basically a big special effect.
11:41I mean everything is generated.
11:42You've got water, snow, environments.
11:43Pretty difficult stuff.
11:44It's the latest in animation.
11:45I mean you haven't seen anything like this with so light like the hair and reflections in the water and the sunsets.
11:50The environment is just so unbelievable.
11:51It's so different than anything you've ever seen before.
11:53I'm a genius.
11:54You got your lines?
11:55Yeah, sure.
11:56Step forward please.
11:57Everybody ready?
11:58Roll please.
11:59Ice Age behind the scenes special, scene one, take one.
12:00And action.
12:01Go.
12:02Go.
12:03Go.
12:04Go.
12:05Go.
12:06Go.
12:07Go.
12:08Go.
12:09Go.
12:10Go.
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12:14Go.
12:15Go.
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12:17Go.
12:18Go.
12:19Go.
12:20Go.
12:21Go.
12:22And action.
12:23Hi, I'm Ray Romano and I'm here in the frozen tundra to give you the first look at the new movie Ice Age.
12:30Cut.
12:31Great.
12:32Ray, good working with you.
12:33Thanks so much.
12:34All right, we got everything we need.
12:36Check the gate.
12:37Let's get out of here.
12:38You kidding me, right?
12:39What do you mean?
12:40That's it?
12:41What?
12:42Is it like a union thing?
12:45Why are we leaving?
12:46All right.
12:47We're done, I guess.
12:48Yeah.
12:49Hey, want to go get a burger?
12:50Yeah, I'm full.
12:52You need a ride?
12:53I'm good.
12:54Thanks.
12:55Hey, what are you doing tomorrow?
12:56I'll call you.
12:57I got your number.
12:58Welcome.
12:59This is Romano.
13:00Romano, sorry.
13:01Romano.
13:02Excuse me, Ms. Romano.
13:03You see that nut that went by?
13:04Who?
13:05No.
13:06No.
13:07No.
13:08No.
13:09No.
13:10No.
13:11No.
13:12No.
13:13No.
13:14No.
13:15No.
13:16No.
13:17No.
13:18No.
13:19No.
13:20We have nothing left on the club that went by.
13:21Who?
13:22Yeah.
13:23Okay.
13:24That's what I thought.
13:25Let me tell you something.
13:26You tell Mr. pal, he got a toughenne back to a pet that far.
13:27He already had a pretty successful history of working with animals, of course.
13:30Yeah.
13:31Yeah.
13:32I don't know my lines that well.
14:02Eek!
14:03Heh.
14:04Eek, eek, eek, eek, eek.
14:10Ha!
14:32Aaaaahhh!
14:39Aaaaah!
14:47Aaaaah!
14:51Aaaaah!
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