Latte and the Magic Waterstone

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]

Latte and the Magic Waterstone
German theatrical release poster
GermanLatte Igel und der magische Wasserstein
Directed by
Written by
  • Martin Behnke
  • Andrea Deppert
  • Marina Martins
  • Jesper Møller
Based onLatte and the Magic Waterstone
by Sebastian Lybeck
Starring
  • Ashley Bornancin
  • Danny Fehsenfeld
  • Leslie L. Miller
Production
company
Dreamin' Dolphin Film GmbH
Eagle Eye Filmproduktion
Grid Animation
Screen Flanders
Umedia
Simonsays Pictures
Distributed by
Release date
  • October 9, 2019 (2019-10-09) (Schlingel)
  • December 25, 2019 (2019-12-25) (Germany)
  • July 31, 2020 (2020-07-31) (Netflix)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryGermany
Belgium
Language
  • German
  • English
Box office$4.9 million[1]

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

Voice cast
  • Ashley Bornancin as Latte, a shy and kind-hearted young hedgehog.
  • Carter Hastings as Tjum, a clumsy red squirrel.
  • Danny Fehsenfeld as King Bantur an aggressive and violent kodiak bear.
  • Leslie L. Miller as Greta, an overweight poison dart frog who lives in an mushroom cave
  • Gunnar Sizemore as Amaroo, a Kodiak bear cub.
  • Eric Saleh as Aken, an elderly jackrabbit.
  • Michael Deffert as Lupo, an arctic fox.
  • Uli Krohn as Johnson a carrion crow.
  • Byron Marc Newsome as a Bear Guard
  • Linus Drews as a wild boar.
  • Maud Ackermann as Tjum's mother.
  • 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 & 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 & 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
  1. "Latte & the Magic Waterstone". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  2. "Latte & the Magic Waterstone (Latte Igel und der magische Wasserstein)". Cineuropa - the best of European cinema. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  3. "Latte Igel und der magische Wasserstein". ff-schlingel.de. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
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