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Animation is being handled by CGI veterans Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and post production at Verbinski's production company, Blind Wink. This is a first for ILM, because they are usually dedicated to doing CGI visual effects for major film productions. This will be the first time in 35 years they will be doing a fully animated film themselves. During voice recording, the actors were given costumes and sets to "help give them the feel of the Wild West". Verbinski called it "emotion capture" with only the audio from these sequences being lifted directly for the final film. Due to Johnny Depp's busy schedule, he only had a "20-day window" in which he could shoot his role as Rango, but the filmmakers lucked out in getting all the other actors they wanted for the supporting roles who were available to film their scenes with Depp, where they unusually, but intentionally recorded all their voices simultaneously. Verbinski said his attempt with Rango was to do a "small" film after the epic Pirates trilogy – even toying with shooting a live-action film while simultaneously helming Rango—but he soon realized just how painstaking and time-consuming animated filmmaking is
