How did the movie makers make "Odie" act with an animated character.

Genom att använda ett par mycket välutbildade hundar ...

The part of Odie was played by two Dachshund mixes named "Tyler" and "Chloe"

Speciellt dansen var en kombination av blåskärm, hunden reagerade på instruktörerna och många, många tar.

Garfield shoves Odie off the chair various times, and they engage in a dance-off competition that features Odie hopping around on his back legs. Though they're having fun together, Garfield propels Odie across the porch when his other cat friends show up.

For this sequence, trainers first positioned "Tyler" in a stay position on a blue screen floor. As "Tyler" hopped on his back legs, a second trainer called the dog to come in the opposite direction and cued him to spin in circles in one spot.

This same action was repeated for various takes from different angles, and "Tyler" was conditioned and prepped for this scene for three weeks before actual filming began.

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