Free Birds

Name: Free Birds
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Released: 2013-10-30
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, George Takei, Colm Meaney

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Free Birds (2013)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

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Release date

2013-10-30

Country

United States

Production

Reel FX Creative Studios, Relativity Media

Genre

Animation, Comedy, Family

Budget

$55 000 000

Box office

$110 387 072

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Director

Jimmy Hayward

Actors

Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, George Takei, Colm Meaney, Keith David, Dan Fogler, Jimmy Hayward, Jeff Biancalana, Danny Carey
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Scenario

Producer

Scott Mosier, John J. Strauss, Aron Warner, David I. Stern

Camera operator

Composer

Dominic Lewis

Artist

Kevin R. Adams, Jay Jackson, Jimmy Almeida

Audition

Kerry Rock

Editing

Chris Cartagena
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Short description

Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history—and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.

What's left behind the scenes

To most accurately convey the movements of the main characters' plumage, the team developed their own program called Avian (avian – English for bird).
To develop the characters' physicality, the modeling department specialists bought a frozen turkey at the nearest supermarket, reconstructed the bird, and then conducted a series of computer movement tests.
To better understand the psychology and physiology of the main characters, the project's creators – artists, animators, and designers – visited a turkey farm in East Texas.
In one scene, the residents throw dynamite at the turkeys. Dynamite was invented in 1867 – 250 years after the time period in which the film's events take place.