Bunta Trilogy

{{Infobox film

| name = The Bunta Trilogy

| image = Bunta_the_Movie.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| director = Lian Li

| writer = Lian Li

| released =

| studio = Zhejiang Versatile Media
DuArt Film and Video

| runtime = 82 minutes

| country = China

| language = Chinese
English

| budget = RMB100 million

}}

The Bunta Trilogy ({{lang-zh|c=《昆塔》|p=Kūntǎ}}) 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 accompanied by a younger boy named Neepop, who is also his big admirer. The two travel further and further 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.{{cite news |title=Curtain up on New Chinese Animated Film |author=Tianzi Harrison |url=http://asiancorrespondent.com/111443/bunta_2013/ |agency=Hybrid News Group |date=August 2, 2013 }}

Production

Miniature effects 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.{{cite news |script-title=zh:《昆塔》導演李煉：不可能是不可能的事 |author= 張晨 |url=http://news.sina.com.tw/article/20130723/10215487.html |agency= Sina News Taiwan |date=July 23, 2013 |accessdate= July 29, 2013|language=Chinese |trans-title=Bunta Director Li Lian: Nothing is Impossible }}

6,700 AliCloud computers were used to perform the final rendering for the 82-minute feature, the first of its kind in China.{{cite news |title=昆塔与阿里云：基于云上的逼近好莱坞的3D动画 |url=http://www.csdn.net/article/a/2013-05-31/15815426 |publisher=CSDN.net |date=May 31, 2013 |accessdate= July 30, 2013|language=Chinese |trans-title=Bunta and AliCloud: Hollywood-level 3D animation made possible by cloud computing }}

DuArt Film and Video was hired to "adapt the script, audition talent, record voices, score the whole film, create the entire sound design" {{cite news |title=Some of the most daring work in filmmaking today is emerging from independent animation |author=Stina Hamlin |url=http://55thand8th.blogspot.com/2013/07/some-of-most-daring-work-in-filmmaking.html |publisher=The Official DuArt Blog |date=July 17, 2013 |accessdate= July 30, 2013}} for the first movie.

References

Category:Chinese animated feature films

Category:2013 films

Category:2013 animated films