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🚀In 2023 SMF Animation Studio is delivering a post-apocalyptic odyssey ‘The Formula for Water’, featuring a girl on an epic journey to save her kidnapped scientist father who has created a machine that can restore the world’s drinking water reserves.
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🤩The film’s visual style was developed by a team of animators who have worked on ‘Maleficent’, ‘The Lion King’, ‘Gravity', ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’.
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🌐We are looking for co-production, distribution and broadcast partners for this feature film. For more information, please, visit our website - smfanimation.com

🎞Animated TV-series ‘Coolics’ premiered at MIPCOM 2021.

‘Coolics’ is an 2D adventure-comedy series for 6 to 8 year old children based on the comic book by the Russian publisher Bubble Comics. It is about a team of young cadets in the ‘Space Academy’ whose mission is to search for superpowered creatures on different planets to help protect the universe from the forces of Evil.
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💬“ ‘Coolics’ is a truly innovative project not only for the SMF Animation Studio, but for the entire Russian animation industry. This is the first experience of creating an animated series based on comics. Together with Bubble we were trying to deliver a simple truth, being a superhero does not mean having superpowers at all. It is enough to be able to show kindness, courage and responsiveness, to take care of friends and the world around us. These are the core values of our classic animation films - the continuity of generations is especially symbolic for us in the year of the 85th anniversary of the legendary film studio,” said Yuliana Slashcheva, chairman of the board of directors at SMF Animation Studio.
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🔝We have already produced seven 11-minute episodes and are planning to work on 45 more episodes.
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📺The platforms that have sales rights are Pay TV, S-VOD, A-VOD, Inflight. The TV series is originally in Russian language which is being dubbed in English as well. ‘Coolics’ is currently under production with more than 75 per cent of the project already financed.

Coolics - Official Trailer Chasing a sentinent asteroid through space, alien hamster and squirrel accidentally give superpower to a cat and a dog from Earth and proceed together to the...

Wishing you a magical and Merry Christmas from all of us at SMF Animation Studio!🎄✨🎁

🐧‘The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin’ is an animated film originally released as a trilogy in 1986. The film was a co-production between Japan and the Soviet Union.
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🇯🇵In 1973, Takeo Nishiguchi, a producer of children's feature films in Japan, came to Moscow and was deeply impressed by the Soviet animation. In 1980, he offered the USSR State Committee for Cinematography a co-production of a feature film. To launch the project Nishiguchi chose a plot that was universal for both sides - the USSR and Japan. The USSR was represented by ‘Soyuzmultfilm’ and ‘Sovinfilm’ studios as well as Japan has picked ‘Aist Corporation’ and ‘Life Work Corporation’ for this title.
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🤝The artists from the USSR were responsible for animation while Japan has sponsored the project and provided the necessary equipment and technology that were required for the filming.
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📽During production the Japanese side has realized that the USSR techniques varies from their animation process. They have also discovered that the perforation of the Soviet films is significantly different from the foreign one, that’s why the Japanese company Fujifilm, where the cartoon was filmed, had to develop a special negative🎞.
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🗓The whole production of a trilogy took 8 years.