Part 5 of 8 for Turner Feature Animation’s “Cats Don’t Dance” (1997).

Casting Pudge: “The voice casting of the cute penguin Pudge is its own version of the classic Hollywood story, recalls Mark Dindal. “A group of animators was eating lunch together in an outdoor cafe one day and a little boy came over to ask us for directions. Someone answered him and he walked away. At that same moment, another animator blurted, `That’s Pudge exactly!,’ and we all realized it was true.” ”

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