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Apoorva is the lead animator, special effects at PDI and Poorvi art director and web site designer of www.antz.com. Unlike most Walt Disney Productions, Antz is in 3D animation, a computer animated feature film. Apoorva says, "Usually we deal in special effects where for action the scenes are recreated on computer, like the helicopter scene in Batman Forever. If five years back anyone had suggested making a 90-minute animated feature film, Hollywood would …

…India. But the success of Antz is proof enough that the times are changing," Apoorva points out. However, like parallel cinema in India, 3D animation is yet to enter the main stream, asserts poorvi. According to production supervisor Ken Bielenberg, PDI, Apoorva did a brilliant job for the climax by creating a visual that suggests real water. In reality, millions of digital water particles that exist only on the computer were used for each frame.