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The Happy Cricket
Directed byWalbercy Ribas
Written byWalbercy Ribas
Produced byJuliana Ribas
English version:
Cleber Redondo
Francisco D. Lourenço
StarringSee below
Music byRuriá Duprat
Production
company
Distributed byHoyts General Cinema
Paris Filmes
Release date
  • 20 July 2001 (2001-07-20)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese
BudgetR$4 million[1]

The Happy Cricket (Portuguese: O Grilo Feliz) is a 2001 animated children's fantasy film directed by Walbercy Ribas. The film is about Christopher, a happy, singing, guitar-playing, and music-loving cricket who must rescue his friends from the evil and music-hating lizard king, Wartlord, and save Linda the Night Star from that villain's grasp.

Plot

Production

The title character was first seen in local commercials for Sharp Electronics in the 1980s.[1] The film spent over 20 years in development,[1] and 30 months in production.[2]

The English-language dub is dedicated to one of its voice actors, the late Bob Papenbrook.

Animation

This Brazilian musical adventure fantasy animated film was produced by StartAnima in São Paulo, Brazil. It uses both traditional animation (2D animation) and computer animation (3D animation) with Adobe After Effects (compositing and visual effects), Adobe Photoshop (background art), Avid Media Composer (video editing), Autodesk Maya (compositing, computer animation and modeling), pencil and paper (hand-drawn animation, rotoscoping and storyboards), oil-paint and paper (background art), Pixar RenderMan (compositing, computer animation and rendering) and Toonz Premium (compositing, digital ink and paint and traditional animation) was created using software from industries Adobe Inc., Avid Technology, Digital Video and Silicon Graphics.

Sequel

In early 2009, 20th Century Fox released a CGI sequel, O Grilo Feliz e os Insetos Gigantes (The Happy Cricket and the Giant Bugs).

Cast

Original version

English version

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Hessel, Marcelo (2007-10-19). "O Grilo Feliz - Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo" (in Portuguese). Omelete. Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
  2. ^ The Happy Cricket (About the Production (accessed from Bonus Material)). Fairview, New Jersey: Clever Image Studios. 2006 [2001]. {{cite AV media notes}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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