 There were originally to be about 500 effect shots , but it increased to 800 . The post @-@ production conflict between Gilliam and the Weinsteins also gave enough time for Peerless to work on another film , The Legend of Zorro . Four different creatures were required for computer animation : a Wolfman , a mud creature , the Mirror Queen , and a living tree . John Paul Docherty , who headed the digital visual effects unit , studied the animation of the computer @-@ generated Morlocks in The Time Machine for the Wolfman . Docherty depicted the Morlocks " as a nice mix between human and animal behaviors " . The death of The Mirror Queen was the most complex effect of the film . In the sequence , the Queen turns into hundreds of shards of glass and shatters . With computerized rendering , this could not happen , as the 3D volume of the body suddenly turns into 2D pieces of glass . The problem was eventually solved due to sudden advances that occurred with Softimage XSI software . 
