Astro Kid
Astro Kid (French: Terra Willy, planète inconnue) is a 2019 French animated science-fiction film directed and written by Éric Tosti with the participation of the co-writers David Alaux and Jean-François Tosti. The plot concerns on a young boy named Willy, who after the destruction of his ship, gets separated from his parents and lands on an unexplored planet, where he must survive until the arrival of a rescue mission.[4][5]
| Astro Kid | |
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| French | Terra Willy, planète inconnue |
| Directed by | Éric Tosti |
| Written by | David Alaux Éric Tosti Jean-François Tosti |
| Produced by | Jean-François Tosti |
| Starring |
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| Edited by | Jean-Christian Tiassy Hélène Blanchard |
| Music by | Oliver Cussac[1] |
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| Distributed by | BAC Films |
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Running time | 90 minutes[2] |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $4.3 million[3] |
Synopsis
Following the destruction of their ship, a 10-year old boy called Willy is separated from his parents with whom he traveled through space. His rescue capsule lands on a wild and unexplored planet. With the help of Buck, a survival robot, he will have to hold on until the arrival of a rescue mission. Meanwhile, they meet an eight legged lizard-like alien named Flash, with whom they become friends, and together they discover the planet, its fauna, its flora... but also its dangers.
Production
Terra Willy is the second feature film from the Toulouse-based studio TAT Productions to be released in theatres, after The Jungle Bunch. Shortly after his previous film release in July 2017, TAT announced its production of Astro Kid with a team of 70 people and having a budget of 6,000,000 euros.
The movie was animated using 3ds Max and rendered using VRay. Some of render tests had used Substance Designer on their own for textures, and the team decided to go for 3ds Max pipeline mainly based on the most common plugins like Ornatrix and Forest. However the studio only have three developers for internal tools that are mostly used for plugging any holes in the usage design of the forest planet to use UDIMs for the first time, with Substance Painter being adapted into a new way of working and resulting in load all the UDIMs and be able to bake all the maps in one place alongside UV and surfacing on ZBrush to later being exported to Autodesk software alongside materials for the hard surfacing, for metals, paints, plastics, rubbers and background props modeling department.
Voice cast
English Dub
- Landen Beattie as Willy
- Jason Canning as Buck
- Susan Myers as Probe
- Laura Post as Willy's Mother
- Keith Sliverstein as Willy's Father
French Dub
- Timothé Vom Dorp as Willy
- Édouard Baer as Buck
- Barbara Tissier as Probe
- Marie-Eugénie Maréchal as Willy's Mother
- Guillaume Lebon as Willy's Father
Reception
The film received generally positive reviews from critics,[5][6] and on Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 100% from 11 reviews.[7]
See also
- List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
- The Jungle Bunch (film)–the previous feature film by TAT Productions
References
- Toulouse. Olivier Cussac, as de la musique de film, 11 July 2018. ladepeche.fr. Retrieved 13 March 2021. (in French)
- Astro Kid at the British Board of Film Classification. bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- Astro Kid at Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- Morain, Odile (1 June 2018) "Terra Willy", le petit frère des "As de la jungle" en gestation à Toulouse. Culturebox. Retrieved 13 March 2021. (in French)
- Felperin, Leslie (21 August 2019) Astro Kid review – little boy lost on a planet far far away. The Guardian.
- Astro Kid review — lost in space with only a red robot to hear you scream. TheTimes.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- "Terra Willy". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved October 30, 2021.