The SpongeBob movie sponge out of water, was a great family movie. My dad actually dragged me to the movies to see it in 3d the first weekend it was out. He just had to wear his shirt with SpongeBob and Patrick riding a cat in space.. anyways... this movie was a hybrid of 2d animation that later turned into animated cgi on a live action background. character consistency is very important when doing this. Placing 3d animated characters onto a live action back ground is amazing, I love this style when its animated right. in this movie they added different amounts of sub-surface that makes the characters look like they have actual flesh. this helped makes the characters look small compared to the other live action actors in the movie. every time a character is rigged, rendered and animated, it must match the characters 2d counterparts. the characters must keep the same consistency from when they are 2d and cgi. adding different kinds of textures and maps can help make a character look more realistic, like when Patrick was eating the ice cream, the ice-cream had to be glossy and wet looking. the actors eyes must match where the cgi animated characters are so that it look like they belong there rather than talking to some thing that isn't really there. Some of the different camera angels also helped show the details of the characters and helped show the actual size difference between the actors and the cgi characters.
Your father sounds like an awesome fellow!
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