• Evan's ark has a concrete foundation--inspired by airport runway technology--that can handle the landing of a 747 jet.

• Creating Evan’s beards was a painstaking process that took a three-person team to lay individual hairs onto Steve Carell’s face.

• The animal trainers brought a veritable zoo to the set of EVAN ALMIGHTY…including lions, tigers, pelicans, leopards, giraffes, elephants, Kodiak bears, baboons, zebras, reindeer, camels, raccoons, cats, porcupines, dogs, buffalos and snakes…to name a few. The creatures would rarely shoot on the same day, as many of them are natural enemies and would attack one another.

• More than 177 different species of animals were brought in from all over the country for the filming of Evan Almighty. Notably, animals were supervised by AHA representatives whenever filming of the animals occurred.

• The film has the most animals ever shot practically for a movie in show business history.

• Each animal was placed into each shot individually by the special effects team.

• The effects studio created 300 pairs of the large-scale CG animals to help fill Evan’s ark, as well as 15 pairs of “hero” CG animals for close-up, brilliantly detailed shots.

• Evan’s Ark was built to the final dimensions set at 80’ (W) X 60’ (H) and 275’ (L) [ultimately digitally extended to 450’ (L), the length of Noah’s Ark in the Bible].

• To make the CG flood for the film's climax, it took animators up to 15-20 weeks to create one water scene (guiding animation through the 3-step process of match move, fluid simulation and rendering stages).

• Working in conjunction with The Conservation Fund of Washington, D.C., the production “zeroed out” Evan Almighty carbon emissions -- courtesy of planting 2,050 trees (ranging from hardwood species such as oak to cottonwood and willow trees). All were planted in the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Warsaw, Virginia, and the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge near Modesto, California.