Art of the Croods
/The Croods is an animation movie produced by DreamWorks Animation, and co-directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders in 2013. The film was announced in May 2005, under the working title Crood Awakening, originally a stop motion film being made by Aardman Animations as a part of a "five film deal" with DreamWorks Animation. John Cleese and Kirk DeMicco had been working together on a feature based on Roald Dahl's story The Twits, a project that never went into production. DreamWorks got a copy of their script and liked it, and invited Cleese and DeMicco over to take a look at the company's ideas to see if they found something they would like to work with. They chose a basic story idea about two cavemen on the run and wrote the first few drafts of the script. In January 2007, with the departure of Aardman, the rights for the film reverted to DreamWorks. In March 2007, Chris Sanders joined DreamWorks to direct the film, with intentions to significantly rewrite the script. The movie features a stellar cast of designers including Carter Goodrich, Shane Prigmore, and Nicolas Weis, among many others. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this movie.
THE STORY
Prehistoric family the Croods live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate, Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night. When a more evolved caveman named Guy arrives on the scene, Grug is distrustful, but it soon becomes apparent that Guy is correct about the impending destruction of their world…
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