Toonz Technopark inks deal with Illusion Studio

Toonz Animation Technopark, animation major in Technopark and South American studio Illusion Studios have inked a co-production deal for producing a 90 minute 3D animated feature film. According to a press release here today, the film ‘Gaturro’, which is based on the famous Argentine comic strip Gaturro and is created by Christian Dzwonik (Nik) Gaturoo, chronicles fun love story of two cats Gaturro, the protagonist and Agatha. The deal was estimated to be worth six million USD.

While pre production of the film had been completed, production of the feature film would commence at the world-class Toonz Animation production facility here within a couple of weeks and the show was expected to hit theatres world-wide by 2010.

Toonz Animation CEO P Jayakumar said ”this is a new challenge for us, something we look forward to. Gaturro as a comic strip is an iconic character and it would demand greater care to give life to him in a different medium. But I am confident that we will be able to rise to expectations .