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Originally Posted by danielsangeo

In the movie Shrek, the filmmakers made an error in judgment, in my opinion. In the scene where they introduce Lord Farquaad, the executioner pours a glass of milk. They used this scene to "show off" their ability to do liquid in a computer. While it was only a short sequence, it jarringly took me out of the story and it took me quite a while to become re-engrossed. In a live action movie, they would not have had this kind of scene because, really, it's just pouring a glass of milk. The milk would've just been in the glass next to the gingerbread man. It's one of my only complaints about the Shrek movie because the rest of it was superb.

DreamWorks do this a lot, whenever some new animation technique is developed. I remember when they produced one of their first animated films in stereoscopic 3D, they specifically had a character in the first scene with one of those bat-and-ball toys, bouncing the ball directly into the top "layer" of the screen (i.e. right into the viewer's eyes) just to show off the 3D effect. But because it wasn't part of the narrative, it just seemed tacky.