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The image was courtesy of Shrek History, who deleted this from his account back in either 2024 or 2025; I asked if I could post this, which he was cool with.

A whole new meaning to the lyric "Get your game on!"

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The sequel to the 2011 spin-off ditched the Shrek franchise's semi-realistic style for a more stylized look with more expressive animation.

With that said, Puss' design had a ton of different changes, especially to his attire.

His hat is a standout: the side of his hat is now exaggeratingly longer, while the feather is bigger than before. The hat also lacks the red outlining around it. The head part of the hat is rounded on the top instead of flat like the previous movies.

His cape is now a clip-on instead of one-piece; the silver piece on his cape is now a cat head instead of a sun-like shape. Like the belt, it also lacks the red outline.

His belt was changed from a thin brown with a generic buckle to a thick, black one with a newly-shaped buckle and an extra strap. His belt in the previous movies was set in the middle of his torso before it was placed down to his hips.

His rapier sword looked about the same; only differences made were the outside lacking the marking, the pomal now shaped like a cat head, and the bottom half with "bumps" that go all the way around.

His boots are more flat on the top and aren't curved on each side as before. Unlike the hat and cape, the boots retain their red outlines, but are slightly faded.

For Puss' physical appearance, his fur is a more darker orange with a lighter tan that's more noticeable on his abdomen.

His eyes are bigger as are his pupils. Unlike the previous movies, his eyes are fully green and have no white in 'em.

He no longer has a "goatee" below his chin.

I was pretty skeptical at how the look of Last Wish looked when I saw the first trailer due to how inconsistent the animation style was compared to the the previous Shrek films and the preceded 2011 spin-off, but I started to warm up to it; The Last Wish's animation style was met with high praise that it gave the Shrek franchise new life.

So, remember, next time you look at the Shrek 5 designs, always remember Puss' Last Wish design.

Starting with Shrek himself, I decided to gather screenshots from the teaser and pit 'em with screenshots of him that matched his expressions and positions.

Comparing his design from the Shrek 5 teaser to the design from the Shrek 5 cast announcement, you can see stark contrast.

Next was Donkey, with the same approach in showing off the facial features and body positions.

Comparing his updated design from the teaser and his design from the cast announcement, it's about night and day, especially in the eyes.

"A true crown jewel."

— The Toad

After finding myself revisiting an old post comparing the Shrek 5 designs to the past four Shreks, I decided to gather some more screenshots of Shrek and Donkey from the cast announcement.

Hopefully, these screenshots are more appealing.

Now, I thought I'd wait until May 18, but I already had myself burned out from setting it aside and creating it at the last minute as May arrived, so I hope you admire this labor of love I made.

When I thought about following companies that released films for DreamWorks Animation post-DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures (via Viacom); 20th Century Studios (via News Corporation, then 21st Century Fox) and Universal Studios (via NBCUniversal), I realized one thing: they all had an iconic yellow character; that was the perfect idea for this occasion: pitting Shrek against irritating yellow characters of those companies.

Fittingly, SpongeBob, being the poster child of relentless annoyance, was first, with Patrick tagging along; they'd believe Shrek was Squidward or some other reason. They took from May 6 to 10 to finish.

Next were the Simpsons, consisting of Homer, Marge, and Bart; Bart may have made more than a few cracks towards Shrek, whatever resulted in Homer strangling him, while Marge looks on in dismay. They took from May 14 to 15 to finish.

It was about time Sony gave Columbia Pictures a new television division after over 20 years.

As I got word that Neutron2001 had a birthday coming up, I thought about making him something related to the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, which after watching the Tom and Jerry Golden Era Anthology, I had the idea of making a Jimmy Timmy-styled title card with Timmy Turner taking the head role of Tom Cat and Jimmy Neutron taking the place of Jerry Mouse; hence "Tim and Jimmy"! As the day got closer, I went ahead in creating this with Timmy and the "Tim & Jimmy" title done while the background resuses the fan-created Power Hour 4 title card. Like the previous posts featuring Jimmy, I wanted to add the primary "bulgy" Jimmy for the title card for the sake of contrast between the 2D/3D protagonists; I asked Liamandnico to make a render of Jimmy as for this, which his results were great.

I also took it a step further by making a VHS/TV broadcast version with the help of Heisei VHS (https://hiyameshi-retro-pack.web.app/apps/Heisei-VHS/).

I hadn't realized today was the 30th anniversary of Dexter's Laboratory, so I was late in the game in making any artwork, but I figured I could still save face in creating a "How it started, How it's going" post like what I made during Despicable Me's 15th anniversary.

Anyway, Dexter's Laboratory was definitely a series that had a fall from grace. I never grew up watching the show much, but I could remember playing the online games on the Cartoon Network website, while I saw the occasional episodes on Boomerang and on Spectrum (formerly named Time Warner Cable)'s Kids on Demand.

Even realizing it was the first original series (not counting the anthology series What a Cartoon!), this series definitely helped pave the way for Cartoon Network's following original series. Its creator, Genndy Tartakovsky, has definitely made a memorable icon while he's remained a frequent name throughout the network having created more shows, even following Dexter's Lab's end, than any other creator in Cartoon Network's history, which were Star Wars: Clone Wars; Samurai Jack; Sym-Bionic Titan; Primal; and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal.

The front cover was made on January 25, while the back cover was made on April 20.

This cover art was planned to be posted way back in January where I planned to make this Paramount Home Entertainment case art of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, then make 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment case art of Kung Fu Panda 3 afterwards for the latter's 10th anniversary, but I ended up lacking the interest in finishing either one. I suddenly had the interest in making the cover art earlier this month when I planned on making my one Shrek-related post for the 25th anniversary of the first Shrek's premiere at the Mann Village Theater.

Anyway, this DVD cover was made with the usual PhotoLayers, PhotoRetouch, ImageWarp, and Classic MS Paint, while I reluctantly used Gemini to remove King Julien and and Skipper when I tried and failed with PhotoRetouch; of course, I used PhotoRetouch to remove the Gemini symbol when finishing up the front case. The front cover comes from the Blu-ray 3D front cover art, which seemed like a perfect fit rather than reuse the original standard front cover art; fortunately, there was a version of the alternative cover art for the original DVD release I could use.

After that was done, the spine was the last thing. I decided to leave it blank like how Universal does with its 4K releases of DreamWorks titles.

The front cover was made on April 23, while the back cover was made on April 21.

The front cover was made with the usual PhotoLayers, Image Warp, and Classic MS Paint. Fortunately, I still had the Gemini-altered cover I could use for making the front cover, as well as the title with the "modern" DreamWorks wordmark.

The front cover was originally made on January 25 as it had Alex on the top of the spine before he was removed on April 23 for the sake of consistency, as I didn't add him on the DVD (and later Blu-ray) spine.

Anyway, the front cover was made with the usual PhotoLayers, Image Warp, and Classic MS Paint. Of course, it used the Gemini-altered cover.

For the back covers themselves:

I relied on the Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D back covers of the February 2018 reprints by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment for gathering the PG rating, the credits, the PDI logo, the Interscope Records logo, the banner of screenshots, the accolade above, and the gradient backgrounds to the top and special features banner.

I relied on the usual MS Paint Classic, Free Online Image Editor, PhotoRetouch, and Photoroom to make it happen. When it came to removing the jargon from the top part, I had to rely on Gemini in doing so.

When it came to the other details, I typed in the shortened description and specification jargon below and added many of the other logos needed in dark blue (22338d) as the credits and the PG rating among others.

In case you didn't get it, here's this for context.

In case you didn't get it, here's this for context.