Northern California-based CG animation house CritterPix Studios has announced development on it second feature, Hollywood Vermin. The company has raised $1.35 million in a common stock equity financing for the family pic, and has hired writer Jonathan Roberts (The Lion King) to pen a treatment.
Hollywood Vermin will tell the story of unsavory underdog outsiders who break into a fat-cat insider’s game. The film will follow CritterPix’s first movie, Ollie, an adaptation of the children’s book, Ollie the Otter, written by CritterPix CEO Kelly Williamson. New Regency is co-producing that film, with help from $2.1 million in private financing from Laidlaw & Co.
Commenting on the Hollywood Vermin announcement, Williamson says, “Raising this capital enables us to complete the script, bring on a director and fast track pre-production–ultimately putting CritterPix on course to produce one animated movie a year.”
To help bring its productions to the screen, CritterPix has been enlisting the talents of such animation veterans as producer Gary Goldman from Don Bluth Films, Pixar technical director Chris Rock, visual effects supervisor Nathaniel Hunter from Tippett Studios and production asset developer Sandra Joy Lee from Industrial Light & Magic. The company can be found on the web at www.critterpix.com.
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