DreamWorks Pictures & DreamWorks Animation'spreviewed their upcoming features "Tropic Thunder","Kung Fu Panda" and next year's first 3D film "Monsters Vs. Aliens" at the Annual ShoWest in Nevada, Las Vegas.
After talking a bit about how digital 3D is the most exciting development in film since the advent of color with no less than ten 3D films being released in 2009, he prefaced the clip from Kung Fu Panda with a disclaimer that the movie will not be in 3D when it arrives in theaters in June, even though it will be shown in IMAX. Rather, they decided to use the movie as a test for the new 3D authoring process that they'll be using on all DreamWorks Animations' upcoming projects. They actually went back to the script and animated the scene completely in the process rather than converting it after the fact.
The clip that was shown introduced Tai Lung, the tiger antagonist of the film voiced by Ian McShane (though there was no dialogue in the clip), as he escaped from his imprisonment, chained to the floor of a deep pit with a heavy turtle-like armor holding him down. As the scene opened, that armor starts to crack and explodes off of him. High above at the edge of the pit, a rhino guard and a duck (not sure who that's supposed to be) see that he's escaping and the guard orders them to fire the crossbow, so a number of giant bolts fire down the pit, one of them severing one of the chains that had him held down.
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Katzenberg talked briefly about the plot for their March 27, 2009 animated film Monsters vs. Aliens and introduced the primary monster characters, all of which were influenced by classic monsters of the '50s. There's B.O.B. the Blob, voiced by Seth Rogen, The Missing Link (loosely based on the Creature of the Black Lagoon) is voiced by Will Arnett, Dr. Cockroach is a character voiced by Hugh Laurie who accidentally switched heads with a cockroach during an experiment gone wrong, and Reese Witherspoon is voicing Ginormica, who isn't exactly a 50-foot-woman, but she is 49 feet and 11".
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