Dear Tamara Andrews, Animal Trainer for LIFE OF PI
Wait a second. Were the animals in Life of Pi real? Or were they simply the fabrications of talented storytelling? No, that can?t be true. How else can you explain your role on set? Surely you had to struggle with real flesh-and-blood tigers, zebras, and orangutans. As the story unfolds, however, I?ll be damned if I could tell where reality ended and invention began. I just believed... (CONT'D)
http://www.dearcastandcrew.com/letters/2012/11/26/life-of-pi.html
Matthew Balenko
the tiger was real! He recently died and was from my hometown (the tiger was only used in shots without anyone else) CGI was for most of the tiger scenes though...
Apr 4 - 09:00 PM