Dawn of the Croods | |
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Genre |
Comedy Adventure |
Based on | Characters created by John Cleese, Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders |
Voices of | |
Theme music composer | John Van Tongeren |
Composer(s) | Gabriel Mann Rebecca Kneubuhl |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Brendan Hay |
Running time | 23 minutes |
Production company(s) | DreamWorks Animation Television |
Release | |
Original network | Netflix |
Original release | December 24, 2015 – present |
Website |
Dawn of the Croods is an American 2D-animated web television series that is produced by DreamWorks Animation. The series is based on the 2013 animated film The Croods, taking place before the events of the film. It premiered on December 24, 2015, on Netflix.Sam Riegel voice directs this series. Season 2 premiered on August 26, 2016. Season 3 premiered on April 7, 2017
The adventures of the series takes place before the film, with Eep having new friends, and the rest of the Croods facing new enemy creatures, such as bearowls.
In contrast to the computer-animated film, the series is 2D-animated. The series' creators wanted to make it more "cartoonish", but found doing "squash and stretch" in CG too expensive for television. Different animation technique also helped the series to stand out from the feature film, which was concurrently shown on Netflix. The first three episodes were animated in Toon Boom Harmony by Vancouver's Bardel Entertainment. DreamWorks soon found that Harmony was not the best fit for animating scenes that contained multiple characters at once. The rest of the episodes were traditionally hand-drawn by South Korean studios: EMation, NE4U, and Dong Woo Animation.