The short was the first computer-animated film to claim the award, representing an important milestone in the history of the relatively new medium.

"It was perhaps the first computer-animated film that enabled viewers to forget they were watching computer animation," wrote Price.

The film is notable for being one of the first computer-animated film made in Latin America.

This technique was emulated in the computer-animated film Happy Feet.

The following year, he composed the music for the third installment in a series of popular computer-animated educational films about the human body.

He served as writer and director for the 2008 computer-animated film Roadside Romeo.

Disney's foray into their own homegrown computer-animated film is obviously highly successful.

Although today's computer-animated films may be getting closer to reality, they're still caricatured.

The second Disney adaptation, released in 2005, is a feature-length computer-animated film.

Norshteyn refuses to use a computer in his work, and says that even watching computer-animated films makes him ill.