Eric Animations

Eric Animations: The Movie (formerly known as The Eric Show: The Movie and Eric Animate: The Movie) is a upcoming 2017 American 3D hand-drawn/Flash/CGI computer-animated adventure action family comedy crossover film directed by Henry Norton, Lamount Meeks, Steven Spielberg, and Alvin Hung and based on the animated series called The Eric Show by ThatGreenSwagGuy and Prince Boadu. It is loosely based on props and characters from Go!Animate created by Alvin Hung, who is the founder and CEO of the company. The film is planned to be The Go!Animate Company's first 3D animated film after The Henry Norton Group, Go!Animate, and DreamWorks launched Go!Animate DreamWorks Pictures, which is a merger between Go!Animate and Dreamworks Pictures and Animation. It is also the first film to be made by Go!Animate Network Movies and Studios. It is somewhat similar to a fan-made film called MYCUN (2015). As a crossover film, Eric Animations: The Movie also features characters from Gabriel and the Wacky Pack, Rugrats, Steven Universe, Despicable Me, Adventure Time, and many others.

It is produced by The Go!Animate Company, Warner Bros. Animation (under the Warner Animation Group feature film development unit), Scratch Entertainment, DreamWorks Animation, Amblin Entertainment, Illumination Entertainment, Lorimar Film Entertainment, John Harry Lau Productions, New Line Cinema, YouTube Red, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Rough Draft Studios, Paramount Animation, GreenyWorld Studios, Nickelodeon Movies, Timberwolf Productions, Blur Animation Workshop, and Adobe Systems, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in United States and Canada prints, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures in International prints, and YouTube Red for an Internet re-release. This will serve as YouTube Red's first ever motion picture to be made with Go!Animate, and to team up with Warner Bros. Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, and Universal.

The film is set to be released in November 3, 2017 in Standard, 3D, 4D, Real D 3D and IMAX. In fact, it is the first film for a Go!Animated movie to have a theatrical release. As for YouTube Red's release, it will be released on November 16, 2017 and it will be in standard version.

Synopsis
A 15-year-old teenage boy named Eric Animations is living a double life as a 10th grade student of GoAnipaulis High School and as a famous YouTuber named EricAnimate in GoAnipaulis, formerly known as Go!Animate City, where everything is "grounded video-free". However, Eric's arch-nemesis, Kayla, along with her team of troublemakers and villains called "The Troublemakers Squad", who are obsessed with grounded videos made from Go!Animate, are planning to take over all of the fictional universes in the GoAnimate Galaxy, and spawn grounded videos on top of them. It's up to Eric and his friends to team up with the good people to stop Kayla and her team.

Plot
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Cast

 * TBA as Eric Animations, a 15-year-old teenager living a double life as a 10th grade student of GoAnipaulis High School and as a famous YouTuber named EricAnimate. He is the teenage son of Kimberly and Diesel Animations and the main protagonist of the movie.
 * TBA as Kimberly Animations, Eric's mom.
 * TBA as Diesel Animations, Eric's dad.
 * TBA as Kayla, Eric's ex-girlfriend, Eric's arch-nemesis, leader of a team of grounded video-obsessed troublemakers, and the main antagonist of the movie.
 * TBA as Julie, Eric's current innocent girlfriend, Eric's best friend, and Eric's future wife. She's the first main deuteragonist of the movie.
 * TBA as Erika, Eric's first friend and cheerleader for the GoAnipaulis High School football team. She's the second main deuteragonist and also the antihero of the movie.
 * TBA as Victor, Eric's second friend and the main tritagonist of the movie.
 * TBA as Kate, Eric's third friend and also cheerleader for the GoAnipaulis High School football team like Erika.
 * TBA as Dr. Goani Matestein, Julie's father and a scientist who believes in GoAnimate Logic.
 * TBA as PC Guy, a friendly and busy natural-born Microsoft fan and a comic relief.
 * TBA as Benjamin Santagati, a YouTube user, and one of Eric's friends.
 * TBA as Cameron the Camera Girl, a professional filmmaker, video camera operator, and PC Guy's girlfriend. She's one of the minor characters of the movie.
 * TBA as Phil the Video Camera, an anthropomorphic video camera who is Cameron's pet. He is Cameron's best friend and sidekick.

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Development
The Go!Animate Company and The Henry Norton Group announced the film in December 25, 2016. The film was originally titled as The Eric Show: The Movie. It is the 2nd film for Go!Animate to team up with Warner Bros for a motion picture since "The GoAnimate Movie" (2014). This is also the first Go!Animated film to work with 3D computer-animation.

The film was planned to be produced by John Harry Lau Productions, but in March 20, 2017, John Harry Lau announced that he does not not want to work on the production of the film. So in March 21, 2017, Paramount Animation will produce the film, instead of John Harry Lau Productions. However in March 4, 2017, John Harry Lau had 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 as Sharpness Knight, agreed to make the film, and have GreenyWorld Pictures co-produce the film. In March 25, 2017, NDCUnivercity Media, a parody of NBCUniversal agreed to help with the production of the film, and NDCUnivercity Animation Studios was added to produce the film in April 18, 2017. Univercity Pictures was also added on the same day, as an International film distributor beside Paramount Pictures, but under Universal Pictures, which Univercity is parodized to. But 5 days later, Univercity Pictures and NDCUnivercity Animation Studios were removed from producing and distributing the film. (See Trivia for more!) So Universal will distribute the film along with Paramount, and Star Butterfly LTD. internationally instead of Univercity, and DreamWorks Animation and Illumination Entertainment will produce the film instead of NDCUnivercity Animation Studios. However, NDCUnivercity will still produce the film under Universal Studios.

Casting
While the film is on development, Alvin Hung, founder and CEO of The Go!Animate Company, announced in 2016 that the text-to-speech voices from Ivona got removed in March 31, 2017, after their licenses expire, which was the same day The Boss Baby came out in theaters. Eric, one of the Ivona voices planned to be used to voice Eric Animations, got removed from Go!Animate, and its division Go!Animate For Schools on March 7, 2017, along with the Jennifer voice. On March 9, 2017, Cheryl Norton announced that voice actors and actress will play the characters to replace the Ivona voices' roles in the film. Justin, one of Ivona's text-to-speech voices that Go!Animate haven't used was bought by Go!Animate. He may be the only Ivona voice on Go!Animate and Go!Animate For Schools after the rest of the Ivona voices get removed. The removed voices are replaced with new voices. However, Go!Animate lied about the removal of the rest of the Ivona voices.

Film Title
The film was originally titled as The Eric Show: The Movie. However, the title was very unusual and it wasn't a great title for the film. In March 15, 2017, the title was changed to Eric Animate: The Movie. The title "Eric Animate" is very similar to Go!Animate. But to avoid getting the movie sued by Go!Animate, and then cancelled, the film's title was changed for the 2nd and final time. The title was changed to Eric Animations: The Movie in March 20, 2017.

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

Animation
The film is to be a mix of hand-drawn animation, 2D digital Flash animation, and 3D computer-generated imagery. The animation will be made by Go!Animate, Rough Draft Studios, and Animal Logic using Toon Boom Storyboard Pro as the storyboarding software, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Animate as the matte painting, visual development, design, 2D layout, and 2D animation softwares, Autodesk Mudbox, The Foundry Modo and ZBrush as the modeling softwares, Toon Boom Harmony as the 2D animation, compositing, and digital ink & paint software, Blender as the CGI layout, animation, and lighting software, and Autodesk Maya as the CGI animation, CGI layout, and CGI rigging software. Autodesk Softimage will be the CGI animation, compositing, rendering, and lighting software, The Foundry Nuke will be the animation camera and compositing software, and Houdini Effects and NDCUnivercity's RenderMotion will be the visual effects softwares for the film.

There are other softwares that will be used to make this film including Adobe After Effects as the visual effects and compositing 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, and DreamWorks Animation.

Visual Effects
The visual effects and compositing will be handled by Animal Logic and Industrial Light and Magic, since both of them are indeed visual effects companies. In order to make the animated film look realistic, the CGI animated elements and the 2D animated elements would have to be composited 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, compositors, lighting artists, and rendering 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, compositors, and visual effects 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 makeover.

Company Revivals
In April 2017, during the productions of the film, Lorimar, Seven Arts Productions, Pacific Data Images (PDI), and Famous Players were both revived, but as in-name-only-units. Lorimar and Seven Arts are in-name-only-units of Warner Bros. Entertainment and TimeWarner (See Trivia for more!), Famous Players (as Famous Players Entertainment) is an in-name-only-unit of Cineplex and Paramount Pictures, and Pacific Data Images is an in-name-only-unit of DreamWorks Animation, NBCUniversal, and TimeSammy.

Post Production
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Music
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Future of Go!Animate
The main reason why the film is being produced is to save Go!Animate and change its future for the better. Ever since 2011, Go!Animate was not only just used for business, but it is also used for entertainment purposes. It was just used for making animated videos on the internet. But in early 2017, The Henry Norton Group and Go!Animate decided to have the Go!Animate website also used for movies, TV shows, and television networks like Go!Animate Network, Go!Animate Night Channel, Matthew Television, etc. For saving Go!Animate, the production of the film was to help Alvin Hung, the founder and CEO of the company, get more money for both his company and his family, due to the fact that he and his family are poor.

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Release
Eric Animations: The Movie is set to release into theaters on November 2017 in America, Canada, and International.

Home Media
Eric Animations: The Movie will also be releasing on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on February 2018 by Warner Home Video and Paramount Home Media Distribution (International Home Media Release). It will be the 2nd time Go!Animate was released on DVD since Go!Animate The Movie (2013). More Coming Soon!

Video Game
In April 8, 2017, a video game based on the film is already being planned. It will be published by Activision, Microsoft Studios, and Go!Animate Games, and distributed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Soundtrack
In February 2017, it was reported that David Newman, the same person who composed the score for Greeny Phatom The Movie has plans to work on the soundtrack and score for the film, along with Only 3 Videos, Henry Norton, and Stephan Swaby.

DVD and Blu-Ray Main Menu
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Main Transcript
For the main transcript of the film, click here.

Credits
For the opening and ending credits of the film, click here.

Trailer Transcripts
For the trailer transcripts of the film, click here.

Reception
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