Yeah, that's what I'm thinking about this project. Will they usually fully CG elephants, mo-cap animals (like the new Planet of the Apes movies), will they go the Homeward Bound approach or put CG mouths on real animals? The latter doesn't work most of the time, but there do exist examples of the effect being very good, like in Babe, Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web.Disney's Divinity wrote:The way they use animals in these kinds of movies just never works. Either you have the animals act normal and either a character or the narrator tells you what they said, or they awkwardly try to sync vocals to their mouths and/or actions (or not, like Homeward Bound).
They could also go the Life of Pi route and use a seamless combination of real animals and CG animals.