Klaus, the first animated film by Netflix

7 years ago

On November 15, Klaus was released on Netflix, a Spanish animated film written and directed by Sergio Pablos that tells the story of Santa Claus.
This is the first animated feature film signed by the streaming platform. For its realization, the director and his team have chosen to move away from the CGI – which currently dominates the world of animation – deciding instead to use the traditional techniques of 2D with the addition of an innovative phase in the process. This gives the artwork the quality of lighting and shading offered by 3D.
In other words, a film like Beauty and the Beast, but technically better.
Klaus caused a lot of excitement in the film community before its release thanks to this new and innovative method.

The most distinctive element of the film is certainly all the lighting and, to make this possible, traditional animation was not used as it would have made the characters flat and would have limited the final result.
To solve the problems concerning the realization of the set, the team has developed tools that allow obtaining both backgrounds and “shiny” characters and this allows an artistically authentic result. The fascination of this type of traditional animation remains, however, the presence of a certain level of imperfection and this brings added value to the work.

Pablos’ idea was to treat Santa’s story with respect.
Obviously we all know this and we know how it ends, but the director decided to give the story a different cut and to arrive at the conclusion in an alternative way.