The 'Red Sea' Took Ten Animators 2 Years To Complete In the late 1990s, DreamWorks Animation was working on two very different films: The Prince of Egypt and Shrek. At the time, The Prince of Egypt was the studio’s flagship project, a grand and ambitious retelling of the biblical story of Moses, featuring epic sequences like the parting of the Red Sea. This scene alone took a team of around 10 animators two years to complete, blending traditional hand-drawn animation with cutting-edge CGI to cre