The Happy Cricket

The Happy Cricket (2001)

O Grilo Feliz

Happy Cricket and his cute, adorable friends will have to defeat the evil Wartlord and rescue Linda, the Night Star. This film celebrates the values of friendship, freedom and the defense of nature.

Date of release
2001-07-20
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Action, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music
Director
Walbercy Ribas
Collection
O Grilo Feliz

Casting

Interesting facts

The Happy Cricket is a 2001 Brazilian animated fantasy film directed by Walbercy Ribas.

Production

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

The team of approximately 70 illustrators, indenters, and colorists drew around 375,600 frames and 201,600 layouts that where later placed in the digital coloring phase using Silicon Graphics software, including mixing the use of CGI.

The film was transferred onto Exabyte to Record tapes and transferation of 118,080 files of the 82 minutes of film onto the 35MM film recording boards that were made at Cinesite in London.

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

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