When Peter Lloyd was attending a meeting, he saw Benjid Andef’s novel "Pirates!" on the table. "Adventure with a Scientist", he laughed loudly after watching it. Since then, I have the idea of adapting it into a movie.
The film is based on the first two books in the series "The Pirates!" by British writer Gideon Defoe, "Pirates!" "Adventure with a Scientist" and "The Adventures of Whaling" are adapted to tell the story of the pirate captain who hopes to win the "Pirate of the Year Award" and his messy men embarking on an adventure.
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" is directed by Adelman's two founders, Peter Lloyd and Jeff Newett. The film is the first stop-frame clay animation produced by Sony, and it is also the first 3D stop-frame clay animation produced by the British company Adelman.
The film’s production team has reached 320 people, including 33 professional animation technicians and 41 photography teams.
Although it is a clay animation, the film uses the auxiliary method of computer graphics processing to enrich the visual elements of the film similar to the sea and scenery. This is difficult to achieve by relying on the stop-motion animation itself.
Because director Petroyd has to deal with a lot of things at the same time, the production team first recorded the scene effects they wanted to achieve in advance, and then gave it to the animation technicians.
There are 40 independent teams and 29 animators in the studio.
