Latte and the Magic Waterstone

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Latte and the Magic Waterstone
German theatrical release poster
German	Latte Igel und der magische Wasserstein
Directed by	Mimi Maynard Regina Welker Nina Wels
Written by	Martin Behnke Andrea Deppert Marina Martins Jesper Møller
Based on	Latte and the Magic Waterstone by Sebastian Lybeck
Starring	Ashley Bornancin Danny Fehsenfeld Leslie L. Miller
Music by	John Powell
Production companies	Dreamin' Dolphin Film GmbH Eagle Eye Filmproduktion Grid Animation Screen Flanders Umedia Simonsays Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	October 9, 2019 (2019-10-09) (Schlingel) December 25, 2019 (2019-12-25) (Germany) July 31, 2020 (2020-07-31) (Netflix) April 24, 2021 (2021-04-24) (United States)
Running time	82 minutes
Countries	Germany Belgium
Languages	German English
Box office	$4.9 million[1]

Latte and the Magic Waterstone (German: Latte Igel und der magische Wasserstein) is a 2019 German-Belgian computer-animated film based on the book of the same name by Sebastian Lybeck. Directed by Mimi Maynard, Regina Welker and Nina Wels, it stars Ashley Bornancin, Carter Hastings, Danny Fehsenfeld and Leslie L. Miller.^[2] The film premiered at the 2019 Schlingel International Film Festival,^[3] and released in German movie theaters on December 25, 2019.^[2]

On July 31, 2020, the film made its exclusive streaming debut on Netflix.

Voice cast[]

• as Latte, a brave and kind-hearted young hedgehog.
• as Tjum, a shy and clumsy red squirrel.
• as King Bantur, an aggressive and violent kodiak bear.
• as Greta, an overweight poison dart frog who lives in an mushroom cave
• as Amaroo, a Kodiak bear cub.
• as Aken, an elderly jackrabbit.
• as Lupo, an arctic fox.
• Julian Grant as Johnson, a carrion crow.
• as a Bear Guard
• as a wild boar.
• Carla Renata as Boar's mother.

Plot[]

A hedgehog princess wants to save the forest and its inhabitants from a horrible drought by reclaiming a magical waterstone from an evil and greedy bear king. Along with her friend squirrel, she travels to the land of the bears.

Production[]

The film was based on the 1971 book Latte Igel und der Wasser stein. Nina Wels—the director of the movie—grew up enjoying the book, wishing one day she could make an film about the tale. In 2015, the Dreamin' Dolphin Film GmbH studio made a short teasing the main characters.

The movie's animation is made using Autodesk Maya & rendered using Arnold with 14-CPU farms supported by Houdini & Blackmagic Fusion. The directors wanted the film to have a realistic nature environment that has not been touched by humans at all. Most of the applications took place at Grid VFX studios in Ghent, Belgium to give the character a "Pixar-esque" design with realistic fur and trees around 73 animators managed on Dell Computers to give the appearance of the textures by open-source documents made on Substance Painter & Grid's proprietary software the Gclus.

The film involved the completion of more than 1,200 visual effects shots, including the complex compositing of background and foreground plates and CG render layers for 3D assets, lighting and procedural effects. There were also motion vector tools to allow for the motion blur to be added in post, UV tools to reposition and remap textures, and finally relighting tools that could modify the normal, ambient occlusion and position passes to allow for atmosphere and grading adjustments throughout the compositing process.

References[]

External links[]

• Latte and the Magic Waterstone on Netflix
• Latte and the Magic Waterstone at IMDb

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