Article: Spirited stuff; The irrepressible Jim Carrey is known for his high-energy on-screen persona. So how, asks Rob Driscoll, did he react to taking the back seat behind the very latest in computer animation technology?(Features)

WHEN Jim Carrey caught the first glimpse of his screen image as grumpy old miser Ebenezer Scrooge in Disney's new animated version of A Christmas Carol, he was surprised to see someone really quite familiar staring back at him.

"It is so spooky to me," admits the Hollywood superstar, who underwent a rigorous process of "performance capture" with computerised cameras alongside co-stars Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins and Gary Oldmans , while bringing Dickens' immortal classic to life in its newest and most technologically-advanced version yet. "I just had a feeling that if ...

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