Eric Animations

Eric Animations: The First Ultimate Epic Movie (also known as Eric Animations: The Movie, simply known as Eric Animations, and formally known as The Eric Show: The Movie and Eric Animations: The Ultimate Epic Movie) is an upcoming 2018 American-Canadian hand-drawn/flash/CGI animated action-adventure science-fiction family comedy-drama time travel superhero crossover film directed by Henry Norton, Lamount Meeks, Clay Katis, D.A. Nichols, Abbey Thickson, Steven Spielberg, and Alvin Hung, and co-directed by Mason Moore. The film is based on Go!Animate Network and Cartoon Network's The Eric Show created by Prince Boadu and Julian Badit (known by their pseudonyms PFilms207 and ThatGreenSwagGuy), and loosely based on props and characters from Go!Animate created by Alvin Hung, who is not only the director of the film, but is also the founder and CEO of Go!Animate.

The film is a feature-length spin-off to the 2017 film Alvin Hung And The Go!Fags: The Movie, and this film also serves as a revival/reboot to The Eric Show. It is also the first film made by Go!Animate to use CGI animation since Henry Norton launched a company that would team up with both Go!Animate, DreamWorks Pictures and Animation called Go!Animate DreamWorks Pictures. The company has been focusing on non-CGI animated films, such as the films in the Taylor's Series Saga franchise. This is also the first film to be based off a Go!Animate Network series and the third theatrical film to be based off a Cartoon Network series. The first theatrical Cartoon Network film was The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002), and the second one was Regular Show: The Movie (2015). The film stars the voices of Zachary Gordon, Kevin Spacey, and Lauren Graham. As a crossover film, Eric Animations: The First Ultimate Epic Movie will also feature characters from Gabriel Garza, Rugrats, Steven Universe, Despicable Me, Adventure Time, FusionFall, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and many others. Most of the actors, and actresses, such as Steve Carrell, Kristin Wig,Dan Castellaneta, Ryan Porter, Dana Gaier, Tom Kenny, Roger Bumpass, Miranda Cosgrove, Chris Pratt, Kate McKinnon, and others will reprise their roles in the film, with the exceptions of John Ritter and Christine Cavanaugh, who were both replaced by Luke Wilson and Max Charles respectively.

The film is produced by The Go!Animate Company, Warner Bros. Animation, Colin Entertainment, Ltd., Sony Pictures Animation, NicThic Productions, Village Roadshow Pictures, GreenyWorld Studios and Scratch Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in US and Canadian prints, along with Sony Pictures Entertainment for Columbia Pictures, along with Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures, in US and International prints.

The film is scheduled to be released on June 1, 2018.

Synopsis
The film centers on Eric Animations, one year after the events of Alvin Hung And The Go!Fags: The Movie. More Coming Soon!

Cast

 * Zachary Gordon as Eric Animations.

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Development
In November 2016, Henry Norton announced that he wanted to do a feature-length film based on Go!Animate Network and Cartoon Network's original series The Eric Show. The film was originally titled promotionally as The Eric Show: The Movie. Henry asked Prince Boadu and Julian Badit, who are the creators of the series, if he can do a feature-length film based on their series. The creators agreed to make a film based on the series, and they gave Henry permission to make the film. On December 25, 2016, Henry had announced that Warner Bros and Paramount Pictures would team up with Go!Animate to develop the film. It was also confirm that the film would be the first Go!Animated film to be a mix of hand drawn animation, 2D digital flash animation, and 3D computer generated imagery (CGI).

The film was originally planned to be co-produced by John Harry Lau Productions. However, in March 29, 2017, John Harry Lau announced that he did not want to work on the production of the film. The next day, Paramount Animation, a animation division of Paramount Pictures had agreed to produce the film instead of John Harry Lau Productions. In April 4, 2017, John Harry Lau has decided to return to working on the production of the film. (See Trivia for more.) In March 27, 2017, James Sharp, also known by his nickname Sharpness Knight, agreed to help with the production of the film. He also agreed to have his company Sharpness Knight Animation Studios, and GreenyWorld Studios co-produce the film.

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Writing
Writing for the film started on April 3, 2017. Since then, the script for the movie is currently in progress since the original transcript got deleted.

Cancellation and Revival
In June 25, 2017, James Sharp had deleted the article to Eric Animations: The Ultimate Epic Movie, along with the original transcript, credits, trailer trancripts, and soundtrack.

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Film Title
The film was originally titled as The Eric Show: The Movie. However, the title was very unusual and wasn't a very good title for the film. In March 15, 2017, the film's title was changed to Eric Animate: The Movie. The words "Eric Animate" in the title is very similar to Go!Animate. To avoid getting the movie sued by Go!Animate for being a Go!Animate rip-off, and then cancelled, the title was changed for the 2nd time to Eric Animations: The Movie 5 days later. On May 2017, the title was changed for the 3rd time to Eric Animations: The Ultimate Epic Movie, although the film is sometimes known in some promotional material as simply Eric Animations: The Movie. In July 21, 2017, the title was changed for the 4th and final time by adding the word "First" in the title. The film's title is currently known as Eric Animations: The First Ultimate Epic Movie.

Attempts at Contacting the Companies
The creators of the film tried to contact the companies several times, most notably Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony, and Go!Animate.

Casting
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Filming
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Animation
The film will be animated in California at the Go!Animate headquarters,Blur Studio and Sony Pictures Imageworks, in South Korea at Rough Draft Studios South Korea, in New Zealand at Weta Digital, and in Australia at Animal Logic, using Toon Boom Storyboard Pro as the storyboarding software, Adobe Photoshop and Animate as the matte painting, visual development, design, 2D layout, and 2D animation software, Autodesk Mudbox, The Foundary Modo and ZBrush as the modeling softwares, Toon Boom Harmony as the 2D animation, composting, and digital ink and paint software, Go!Animate as the 2D animation, 2D layout, and composting software, TVPaint Animation as the storyboarding and 2D animation software, Blender as the CGI layout, animation, and lighting software, and Autodesk Maya as the CGI animation, CGI layout, and CGI rigging software.

There are other software that will be used to make this film, including the discontinued Autodesk Softimage as the CGI animation, composting, rendering, and lighting software, The Foundry Nuke as the animation camera and composting software, Houdini Effects and NDCUnivercity's Rendermotion as the visual effects software, Adobe After Effects as the visual effects and composting software, The Foundry Mari as the texture painting software, and Pixar's Renderman as the rendering and lighting software.

The animation styles and techniques will be somewhat similar to that from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Warner Bros. Animation, Nelvana, and especially Go!Animate. During the film's development, Dallas Toons joined the film's production crew when he mentioned that the film will use Toon Boom Harmony as the main 2D animation software with Go!Animate being the secondary 2D animation software. Later on, James Sharp, one of the executive producers of the film replied and added to Dallas' comment that the film will have an exaggerated heavy use of "squash and stretch" to resemble the Looney Tunes shorts, and most of Isaac Anderson Animations' YouTube videos.

Visual Effects
The visual effects and composting will be handled by Animal Logic, Blur Studio, and Industrial Light &amp; Magic, since all 3 of them are indeed visual effects companies. In order to make the animated film look realistic, but not creepy, the CGI animated elements, and the 2D animated elements would have to be composted into the final image using Nuke, Adobe After Effects, and the now-discontinued Autodesk Softimage. The lighting on both CGI and 2D animated elements will also be handled by visual effects artists, composters, lighting artists, rendering artists, animators, and digital ink and paint artists using Pixar's Renderman, Blender, Adobe After Effects, Toon Boom Harmony, Nuke, and Autodesk Softimage, since the animators wanted more lighting and shading on the hand-drawn animated characters.

James Sharp, one of the executive producers of the film, has mentioned that "putting 2D hand-drawn animated characters on a 3D CGI animated environment is one of the hardest things we would ever do". He also said that the animators, composters, and visual effect artists would "animate the 2D characters against a green-screen background and composite the green-screen character into a 3D background." For the CGI transformation sequence, animators would have to design, model, rig, animate, and composite 3D CGI animated designs and models of the 2D animated characters to give them a photo-realistic make over.

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Post Production
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Music
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Release
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