Disney Animation has begun the task of converting one of its classic 2D movies, Beauty and the Beast, into 3D, and discusses it shortly with Variety.

Producer Don Hahn, who’s overseeing the conversion for the studio, says, “We developed some proprietary software to actually inflate the characters and actually create dimension out of them, to really see the width and breadth of Belle’s face, or the Beast’s body.”

As an extra bonus, they’ll be showing a stereoscopic clip of the movie at SIGGRAPH Thursday or Friday.

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