Room on the Broom (film)
For cats and dogs is also space is a British animated television short film by Jan Lachauer and Max Lang from 2012. It is based on the homonymous children's book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Action
A witch and her cat wake up in the morning. During the subsequent spells exploded the boiler after the witch has added toadstools to a brew. Due to the noise a dragon is awakened. During the witch and her cat fly away by broom, the dragon takes unnoticed in pursuit. During the flight, the witch loses her hat and lands in a forest. It is a strange dog that attaches the hat and asks to be taken away by the witch. Although the cat, however, is the witch takes him on his broom. As the connecting flight the hair bow witch is lost, find witch, dog and cat looking even though the needle in the haystack, but not the loop. A green bird brings past and they may, in describing his fate - as a green bird with a loud gray he was always the outsider - with witch, cat and dog go on the trip, although the dog and cat have spoken out against it. The lost wand again later brings over a frog, which also is different from his fellows as a particularly clean-looking animal. He, too, must make the journey with.
The broom is now so fully loaded that he has flight difficulties and barely wins height. The five still flying over a mountain successful, the joy is great. The frog jumps enthusiastically into the air - as he lands, breaks the broom in half. While the four animals that were sitting on a half quarrel, arrived on the ground, making the witch in height acquaintance with the dragon, which they pursued. The four beasts tearing up the face of this development. Is as impotent fear Witch of the dragon dragged to a pond, where the monster wants to eat them, rise from the mud of the pond suddenly the four animals that have stacked up, act in their four languages , and make the dragon clear that the witch is her witch. The dragon is believed to have to do it with a big monster, apologizes and runs away. The animals cheer and also the witch is relieved and grateful. The broken broom has now only room for two people and the animals leave the cat go first. The witch, however, it is possible the broom newly erzaubern in her cauldron and with the help of the animals and some toadstools: With three chairs for witch, cat and dog, a nest for the green bird and a bath with shower for the neat frog. And so pull out all five together on.
Production
The work for the cat and dog is also space began in 2011. At this time in January Lachauer had just finished studying animation at the Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg. He and Max long known from the study and had been working since 2005 on several occasions together at movies. Long turn had filmed in 2009 with The Gruffalo for the first time a children's book by Julia Donaldson. For cats and dogs is also space was produced as The Gruffalo by Magic Light Pictures; working on the film took 18 months, with Lachauer in Stuttgart and Lang worked in London. The figures and individual trees and plants were computer- animated, fire and water originated in traditional animation. The sets were built up again and filmed in a studio. The film was erstgesendet on December 25, 2012 as the Christmas special of BBC One. In January 2014, the film was released on DVD in Germany.
Synchronization
Awards
On the Shanghai International TV Festival was for the cat and dog also space in 2013 has been nominated for a Magnolia Award for Best Animated Film. At the Festival d' Animation Annecy he received an award for Best Television Production. In the Best Animated Special Production Category of the 2014 film was nominated for an Annie Award in 2014 and also received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film.