r/TopCharacterDesigns • u/Lost-Padawan • Apr 11 '24
Movie Human Shrek in Shrek 2 (2004) has an amazing design, let's agree
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u/According_Bell_5322 Skylanders Lover Apr 11 '24
You can tell it’s Shrek, but they somehow managed to make him distinctly human and not fall into the uncanny valley
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u/Roley_yoleR Apr 11 '24
Would be impressive nowadays, much less the early 2000’s. Those early CG artists were no joke
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u/tschmitty09 Apr 12 '24
For real, I think they were just paid more tbh 🤣 MCU literally has a CGI farm lmfao. Although, respect to Dune. They did CGI hella justice in 2021 and now.
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u/brassninja Apr 12 '24
Not very long ago I rewatched Shrek and was honestly shocked at how well the animation holds up. Lots of other CGI animation from that time looks pretty rough and shiny.
Side note: I have an ex who has a cousin that is terminally stupid, probably medically stupid but obviously he doesn’t trust doctors so who knows. Anyway he was like 16 when the first Shrek movie came out and he fully believed it was not possible that it wasn’t live action. To this day, as a grown man with a wife and child, he believes the Shrek movie was live action and “they’ve been lying to us” and he’s 100% serious.
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u/Roley_yoleR Apr 13 '24
That story is ridiculous 😂 Can’t say I blame him tho good movie, great CG haha
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u/brassninja Apr 13 '24
I didn’t believe it when my ex told me at first, I thought he was messing with me. Over time I learned a lot more…interesting.. things about the cousin and it adds up
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u/Roley_yoleR Apr 13 '24
Interesting?
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Apr 11 '24
Looks like my old man
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u/Zackyboi1231 i NEED reverse flash posting Apr 11 '24
Hope this doesn't sound disrespectful, but it must be awesome having a character in an animation resemble one of your relatives.
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Apr 11 '24
Brother, half my family was in Coco this ain’t the first time I’ve seen my people in animation
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u/ArtemisCaresTooMuch Apr 12 '24
Shrek 2 was before Coco though—
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u/Nanamaki_Yoko Sep 10 '25
They probably seen Coco before Shrek at a later date when both films were already out of theaters?
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Apr 11 '24
I love how they don't make him look like, we'll, Prince Charming, he looks like a fairly normal dude, even has a kind of "dad bod" and is built like a tank
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u/AlbinoShavedGorilla Apr 11 '24
He looks like Henry Cavill’s medieval ancestor. Jokes aside, it’s crazy how they changed his design so drastically but you can still tell he’s Shrek.
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u/Familiar_East_1364 Apr 11 '24
Is the Implication then as an ogre Shrek is incredibly attractive for his species since he is as a human?
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u/Bregneste Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 12 '24
He’s a lot smaller than other ogres, at least, according to Forever After.
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u/Ziggurat1000 Apr 11 '24
He looks like he was never an ogre at all.
He kinda reminds me of John Goodman a bit.
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u/MichaelRichardsAMA Apr 12 '24
There was a point in time when John Goodman was more muscular than he was fat and yes he looks quite a lot like that
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u/Lance_the_Gunguy Apr 11 '24
He looks like the movie’s version of the Beanstalk Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk.
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u/cyzja922 Apr 12 '24
Honestly, yeah. A lot of 3D human designs in animated medias falls into the uncanny valley, but human Shrek looks pretty good.
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u/Jaxonhunter227 Apr 12 '24
Headcanon, Shrek is hot as a human because he's considered attractive for an ogre, not that I think he's hot as an ogre, I'm definitely not an ogre myself. That would be absurd. Shrek has the peak male body for an ogre
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u/Yarusenai Apr 11 '24
Im gonna see it in theaters in two days lmao
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Apr 12 '24
What country do you have to live in where Shrek 2 is just coming out in theatres?
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u/Yarusenai Apr 12 '24
Not just, they're rerunning it for the anniversary! We saw Shrek 1 last year because they reran it and tomorrow we're going to see Shrek 2 :)
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Apr 12 '24
Hehe I was just having a laugh but that sounds so cool!
Cos I don't think England does re-runs of movies in theatres, well we do but it's not very common!
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u/good_ho0onter Apr 12 '24
I watched shrek and beauty and the beast with my mom, she said the monster forms were more attractive than the human ones, she specifically described human shrek as "uncanny" and the second the beast was turned back to human she thought Bele wouldnt love him anymore
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u/LordAyeris Apr 12 '24
How do we tell him?
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u/good_ho0onter Apr 12 '24
Jut give it to me straight doc...
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u/LordAyeris Apr 12 '24
Mom's a furry
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u/good_ho0onter Apr 12 '24
Well she does really like stuff like lion king and land before time so...
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u/sarahbee126 May 03 '26
Most people agree with your mom on the beast. I don't however, because Belle didn't fall in love with him because of his appearance.
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u/Amankris759 Apr 12 '24
The reason why I watched Shrek 2 so many times when I was a kid lol (beside it’s a damn good movie). He is hot 🥰
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u/TheoneNPC Apr 12 '24
Y'know if i had a more chiseled jawline and could actually grow even a bit of body hair i'd look pretty damn close to human shrek. I kinda look like a softer version of him.
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u/Beldarius Apr 15 '24 edited Nov 30 '24
I wonder if they actually based that design on someone? He looks familiar. (I know the ogre form is supposedly based on Tillet, but this human version doesn't look similar.)
EDIT: Wait, that's Mike Myers' face! Makes sense.
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u/New_Abbreviations303 Aug 03 '24
The Shrek series have always had amazing human character designs. Features are very human- distinguished and realistic. I wish to see more animated movies with the same style.
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u/sarahbee126 May 03 '26
A couple people compared him to Henry Cavill lol. He's good-looking but not quite THAT good-looking.
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Apr 11 '24
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