A new documentary airing on the Discovery Channel, entitled "Discovering Ardi," unveils the historic finding to the world thanks to computer animations created by Colorado-based Impossible Pictures.

"Our responsibility with the program was to animate Ardi," Steve Urbano, president of the company, said.

Impossible Pictures' offices are discretely tucked away in Lower Downtown.

"The project took two years, and 30 artists, for a total of 100 seconds of screen time," Urbano said. "The scientists told us this creature would look like; we were given a set of drawings of Ardi and what their interpretation was."

The descriptions ranged on how Ardi would walk to the color of her eyes, but the scientists didn't always agree.

"It was difficult. There is a lot of opinion and interpretation of the data. Our job was to take all of that and put it to use and bring Ardi to life," Urbano said.

All this work for such a short amount of screen time isn't new to this company. Daev Finn is a Los Angeles transplant who worked 20 years in Hollywood. His creations include Norbert from the first Harry Potter film.

"On top of rendering the animations and lighting, we also have some very complex areas of applying fur, one of the holy grails of CGI is realistic fur," he said about working on Ardi.

It was not just the fur - everything in Ardi's world: the plant life, the sky, the trees, all had to be recreated to match what scientist believe was the setting 4 million years ago.

"Discovering Ardi" is currently still showing on the Discovery Channel.

Impossible Pictures also works on projects for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.