“One of our heads of animation, Rune Bennicke, designed the characters, adapted them from the drawings in the books, and also did some early animation tests. “The books are so fun and so lively, it really seemed like a given that it should be a very cartoony look and animation style,” Soren says. But ultimately, Pilkey’s original artwork drove the animation style. cartoons, as well as cartoons from Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and Hanna-Barbera, studying how the characters move. Soren went on to explain that the artists dug through the archives looking for stylistic inspiration from classic Warner Bros.
ACTORS OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS MOVIE
“But our production designer, and our co-head of animation spent many, many months up there in the heat of production, making sure that we were making the movie in the best possible way,” notes Soren. The recording of the actors was primarily done here, too.” That means all of the designs, all the art, the storyboarding, the editing process and layout was all handled in L.A. “The front-end of the movie was made here. “I really had to spend the bulk of my time here,” he says. So, while he visited the studio in Montreal frequently and was in constant contact with the team there, in the interests of efficiency, he mostly worked remotely from L.A. The director explained that he came on board a little over two years ago and production moved forward quite rapidly for an animated feature. “They did an animation test to bid on the movie, and everybody was blown away.” “After searching around for a little bit, they came across Mikros Image, who was making Little Prince, had made Asterix: The Land of the Gods and had done quite a nice body of work already,” says Soren. Soren explained that while DreamWorks was eager to get going on a film, the company already had had The Boss Baby and Trollhunters in the pipeline for 2017 and lacked the in-house resources to take on another movie.
ACTORS OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS SERIES
“Years later, once I had kids of my own, we read the first book together, then the next book, and the next, until we’d devoured the entire series and were sore from laughter.” I picked it up and read half of it right there in the aisle,” he recalls. I had just moved to Los Angeles, and I discovered the first Captain Underpants book at a bookstore. Soren, a longtime DreamWorks veteran who previously directed Turbo (2013) and two Madagascar shorts, Merry Madagascar and Madly Madagascar, as well as being a story artist on Shrek, Shark Tale and Over the Hedge, said that he has fond memories of the first time he came across Pilkey’s books. But I had been very aware of the books for a long time, so I jumped at the chance.” When they approached me to take the reins, I had just finished directing Turbo, and I was developing an original idea at the time. “So, when DreamWorks finally managed to team up with him, it was a major coup and the studio was incredibly excited. “He still had more stories to tell,” says Soren. for years, as studios vied for the film rights, but Pilkey wasn’t quite ready to make a deal. Soren explained that Captain Underpants was a hot property in L.A.
Together, they set out on a journey to stop the mad scientist Professor Poopypants (Nick Kroll), the Turbo Toilet 2000 and tattletale Melvin Sneedly (Jordan Peele) from taking over the world. Krupp (Ed Helms), into thinking he is the dim-witted superhero known as Captain Underpants. Scheduled for release June 2, the film tells the story of two imaginative elementary school students, George Beard (Kevin Hart) and Harold Hutchins (Thomas Middleditch), who hypnotize their school principal, Mr. Directed by David Soren, DreamWorks Animation’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie brings Dav Pilkey’s beloved Captain Underpants book series to life.
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