DreamWorks Animation exhibition offers a behind-the-scenes look at how its films are made

SINGAPORE — From the initial sketch to the big screen, visitors to the ArtScience Museum will be able to discover the movie magic behind two decades-worth of DreamWorks Animation films from June 13.

DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition is a 20-year retrospective that will feature 31 films – from 1998’s Antz to last year’s How To Train Your Dragon 2 — and more than 400 displays.

Curated by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation, the exhibition also features concept drawings and behind-the-scenes footage of the studio’s creative process.

There will be three main galleries, namely Character, Story and World, that will feature storyboards, character sculptures and reconstructions of DreamWorks’ real life workspaces, so that visitors can see what it takes to create their favourite animated films.

The World gallery, for example, houses Dragon Flight: A Dragon’s-Eye View of Berk, where visitors get a 180-degree panoramic dragon ride over the township Berk from How to Train Your Dragon. There are also interactive stations where visitors can learn the basic principles of animation to create their own short movie using a simplified version of Dreamworks’ software.

Singapore is the first stop on the exhibition’s five-year international tour. ACMI Chief Executive and Director Katrina Sedgwick said: “Our plan was always to share it with the world after the enormously warm response from Australian audiences, so we’re delighted that visitors to ArtScience Museum will now also have the chance to experience the creative world behind the on-screen magic of DreamWorks Animation.”

Tickets to DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition will go on sale from Friday (May 22).