The renaissance artist of the middle ages has given way to the modern day renaissance animator – a master of many different media. A modern animator has to be an artist, a sculptor, a mathematician and a filmmaker. Various industry professionals discuss the advantages of marrying multiple techniques to produce innovative animation while we watch some very cool computer animation./Animator Chris Landreth talks about his exciting Oscar-nominated piece The End. This work is widely considered to offer the most realistic computer generated representation of human hair, moving the "virtual human" one step closer to completion./Dressed in a silver spacesuit, the very animated John Dillworth takes us on a tour of his work. Nominated for an Oscar for "Courage the Cowardly Dog in the Chicken from Outer Space", John muses on what it takes to become an animator. This segment covers all of his major films, including Angry Cabaret, as a yet unreleased MTV cartoon.