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By Ian Youngs
BBC News Online correspondent in Cannes
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Jolie, Black and Smith said the film was a positive experience
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Working on animations is more exciting than performing in the flesh - even though actors are paid less, Will Smith and Angelina Jolie have said.
The duo were in Cannes with fellow star Jack Black to speak about their latest film, Dreamworks animation Shark Tale.
Making the upcoming film was "liberating", Smith said, as it helped him rediscover a freedom in his acting.
Jolie said the speed at which animation was advancing was exciting, while Black said voice work was simply "easier".
Also starring the voices of Robert de Niro and Renee
Zellweger, Shark Tale has been made by the same studio that produced Shrek.
Smith said the booth for recording characters' voices
was a space where "you're allowed to do anything".
"It's actually helped me in my acting performances in
'real films'," he said.
The film's three leads took to the water to promote the film at Cannes
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"The animated performances have helped me create and find a freedom I used to have.
"I'm finding it a lot easier to find that space in
live action now."
He added that there was more opportunity to "create a
memorable character" in animated films.
Jolie - who won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted -
revealed she had watched Shrek 60 times with her son.
She is attracted to making animations because the
quality is getting better, she said, but added: "Mind
you, I still like Dumbo.
"They're just great to watch, they're great stories
and they're obviously advancing, so to be part of
anything that's changing and advancing is exciting,"
she said.
Jolie said the quality of animations was improving
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Meanwhile, Black, who starred in School of Rock, said animations were easier and gave him more time to get things right.
"It's not really the money - it doesn't pay as good - but it's also not as much work," he said.
"You go in and do a little talking and a little
singing and screaming, and then you're done.
"It's easier and you have the chance of being part of
something special."
Shark Tale, which is released in the US in October,
used the Cannes limelight to attract attention but is
not part of the festival's official line-up.
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