Bunta Trilogy

The Bunta Trilogy (Chinese: 《昆塔》; pinyin: Kūntǎ) is a Chinese animated film series by Zhejiang Versatile Media. The first movie opened in theaters in China on August 2, 2013. The sequels are currently still in development.

The Bunta Trilogy
Directed by	Lian Li
Written by	Lian Li
Production companies	Zhejiang Versatile Media DuArt Film and Video
Running time	82 minutes
Country	China
Languages	Chinese English
Budget	RMB100 million

Plot

In the first Bunta movie, which takes place on a faraway planet the size of a peanut, teenage boy Boca goes on a journey to search for Bunta, a legendary cactus plant that may save his community from an impending food crisis. Though wanting to do it by himself as a hero would, he is accompanied by a younger boy named Neepop, who is also his big admirer. The two travel further and further away from home, befriending Wishstick Mountain's Princess Gaga, who joins their cause after an intense fight with a super villain from the Lizard Valley.^[1]

Production

Miniature effects were used to produce the first Bunta movie in 3D, coupled with the proprietary technology "Kmoke 9-Axis Automated Frame-by-Frame Synchronizing Technology for Virtual and Physical Cameras" developed by Zhejiang Versatile Media. The precision level of this synchronization system goes down to micrometers.^[2]

6,700 AliCloud computers were used to perform the final rendering for the 82-minute feature, the first of its kind in China.^[3]

DuArt Film and Video was hired to "adapt the script, audition talent, record voices, score the whole film, create the entire sound design" ^[4] for the first movie.