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IT'S BAD ENOUGH that Mumble the emperor penguin is treated like a misfit because he can't sing like the rest of the colony. But things get really bad when his tap-dancing talent is blamed for a mysterious fish famine! So in the new movie Happy Feet, Mumble goes on a journey to find out what the real cause is—and becomes a tap-dancing hero to his colony.
Do penguins really sing and dance? NG Kids went fishing for answers to this and other questions about how the film's flippered stars compare with real penguins.
HUMAN PENGUIN
If it looks like Mumble stole his moves from a real person, it's because he did! Wearing a motion-capture suit covered in shiny dots, professional dancer Savion Glover tapped away as he was filmed by 60 cameras. The cameras sent the moving dots to a computer, and the dots became the skeleton for Mumble's dancing body.
FAKE FEATHERS
Mumble is covered with six million animated feathers. That's a lot more than the average 110,000 feathers that real emperor penguins have.
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