''The Bunta Trilogy'' () is a Chinese animated film series by Zhejiang Versatile Media. The first movie opened in theaters in China on August 2, 2013. The sequels are currently still in development.
Plot
In the first ''Bunta'' movie, which takes place on a faraway planet the size of a peanut, teenage boy Boca goes on a journey to search for Bunta, a legendary cactus plant that may save his community from an impending food crisis. Though wanting to do it by himself as a hero would, he is tagged along by a younger boy Neepop, who is also his big admirer. The two make their way farther and farther away from home, befriending Wishstick Mountain's Princess Gaga, who joins their cause after an intense fight with a super villain from the Lizard Valley.
Production
Miniature effect
A miniature effect is a special effect created for motion pictures and television programs using scale models. Scale models are often combined with high speed photography or matte shots to make gravitational and other effects appear convincing t ...
s were used to produce the first ''Bunta'' movie in 3D, coupled with the proprietary technology "Kmoke 9-Axis Automated Frame-by-Frame Synchronizing Technology for Virtual and Physical Cameras" developed by Zhejiang Versatile Media. The precision level of this synchronization system goes down to micrometers.
6,700
AliCloud computers were used to perform the final rendering for the 82-minute feature, the first of its kind in China.
DuArt Film and Video
DuArt Film & Video is an American film and recording studio founded in New York City by Al Young in 1922.
was hired to "adapt the script, audition talent, record voices, score the whole film, create the entire sound design"
for the first movie.
References
Chinese animated films
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