Klaus movie: Know how Santa's origin story came to be an animated Netflix film

Director Sergio Pablos found himself on a journey that took him to rrn kingdoms and new animation territory en route to making streamer's first in-house animated film. Recently in an interview, director said that he was interested when he saw Batman Begins. He thought that it h a great storytelling exercise, to take a character that is alrey well established and bring it to today's audience. He considered characters from Napoleon to Dracula before landing on St. Nick. He has many origin stories, but in end, he thought that re was t one can-accepted origin story.

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In 2016, Netflix was t looking for animated films, but y were on a hunt for Christmas content. So y me an exception. Pablos' film Klaus debuted in vember 2015 as streaming platform's first original feature produced through its new animation unit, which w has more than a dozen feature and short projects in various sts of development and production. idea for Jesper who is main character came from Pablos' search for antisis of Santa, who is a symbol of altruism. His main character is someone who has to learn lesson. That is when idea of a pampered, self-centred postman came to be. He n realized that he has potential to tell story with a lot of humour and irony.

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While exploring city, Pablos did visit rway for his research, where he learned about country's indigeus Sami people and ir culture.  important thing he learned during his trip was way Sami felt, it was more likely that y have been misrepresented in media and wanted to be sure y were treated with respect in his film. Produced by filmmaker's Mrid-based SPA Studios, Klaus has a unique visual style, result of an approach that director describes as 2D animation but using new computer tools to give artists more precise control over lighting. His end goal was to make film feel like it is a storybook, and it is moving artwork. He felt like Klaus could benefit from hand-drawn animation, but director was t looking for something looked stalgic. He, along with his team wanted to update it and see what new techlogies could do for film.

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