The Happy Cricket


The Happy Cricket is a 2001 animated children's fantasy film directed by Walbercy Ribas. The film is about Christopher, a happy, singing, guitar-playing, and music-loving cricket who must rescue his friends from the evil and music-hating lizard king, Wartlord, and save Linda the Night Star from that villain's grasp.

Plot

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

Animation

This Brazilian musical adventure fantasy animated film was produced by StartAnima in São Paulo, Brazil. It uses both traditional animation and computer animation with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Avid Media Composer, Autodesk Maya, pencil and paper, oil-paint and paper, Pixar RenderMan and Toonz Premium was created using software from industries Adobe Inc., Avid Technology, Digital Video and Silicon Graphics.

Sequel

In early 2009, 20th Century Fox released a CGI sequel, O Grilo Feliz e os Insetos Gigantes.

Cast

Original version