We modeled all the animals and created textures. We rigged them for simple posing. The scene layout and environment work was done to optimise the rendering on a very heavy scene. The hair and fur on these animals was the most important aspect of the images, had to look good. Our rendering engine at the time struggled with the data, so we resorted to cheats, we rendered each animal one by one. This actually helped in the compositing as we had more freedom with motion blur and depth haze effects. Our current hair pipeline can now comb through these scenes without a snag in a fraction of the time.