| Back to Expert CornerHoBSoft and Toon Boom for dancing Chico & Rita
Directed by Academy Award winner Fernando Trueba, and star designer Javier Mariscal, the feature film Chico & Rita combines live action and 2D in Toon Boom Harmony in 7 studios linked together by HoBSoft.
Chico & Rita brings us to Cuba after WW2 in 1948: Chico is a young talented pianist and eager for recognition, Rita a young singer whose voice is extraordinary. Both of them will experience a tumultuous love story in front of a jazz backdrop in Havana in which booming music and passion are inextricably linked to each other. For this movie, HoBSoft and Toon Boom have developed a very strong tool for multi studio productions, allowing to automate most of the major steps of a production pipeline.
Chico & Rita is approximately 80 min long. The production took place in 18 months in 7 studios around the world. Kepa Dañobeitia Alemany, Estudio Mariscal’s production manager says: “We were around 200 people working between Spain – Estudio Mariscal in Barcelona and Animagic in Madrid -, LightStar Studios in Brazil, Magic Light Pictures on the Isle of Man, HolyCow Animation in Philippines, Jet Media in Latvia, and Kecskemét Film in Hungary”.
Brian Turner Ottosen, Managing Director of HoBSoft, explains: “We have visited all the studios and integrated HoBSoft servers, file servers and Toon Boom Harmony servers.”
Kepa Dañobeitia Alemany, Estudio Mariscal’s production manager explains how Toon Boom Harmony delivered the following benefits:
- Consistent line quality
- Convenient exchange of production parameters
- Matching colour palettes throughout the project
- Ability to cover all production steps within one solution
- Flexible licensing to facilitate access to the technology
For more info: click image below to find the Case Study article and watch the official trailer from Estudio Mariscal.
