Béla Ternovszky: Cat City 2.

The fans have long been demanding the second part of BélaTrenovszky-József Nepp’s cultic cartoon film Cat City 2.

Grabovsky starts to move

“We started the animation in August. Cat City 2. is expected to be finished by the end of summer, the beginning of autumn of 2007 and will be shown at cinemas in December.”

The illustrated script, the storyboard is usually made after the synopsis, then the literary script – Béla Ternovszky, the director of the first and second part tells us the secrets of the preparations. The next step is to record the prologues, that is to say the dialogues, which are mixed with the storyboard. A cartoon usually obtains its approximately final version as for the length and the characters at this stage. It’s still possible to correct mistakes, cut certain scenes or change them, and create the balance by shifting the stress. This is followed by the drawing works involving 8-10-15 people, during which the layouts are designed. By this time besides the figures and objects, the “camera movements” and backgrounds are also formed. After all these comes the animation process, that is the “moving” of figures and their environment.

The Four Gangsters

Cat City 2. unites the older and younger generation

The film basically follows the “traditions”, and Zoltán Maros designed most of the characters in terms of this. (After shooting the first part, he became leading expert at the Disney studio in Paris.)

As it turned out, the story takes place 20 years after the appearance of the metal bulldog, when only a group of uneducated cats live at the back of beyond. Grabovsky also appears, but according to Béla Ternovszky he won’t be the central figure this time, so not he is the one who saves the mice of Planet-X.

Another Béla Ternovszky - József Nepp success: Mézga Family

Béla Ternovszky wants to shoot not only the second part of Cat City, but another, cultic cartoon serial, the already mentioned Mézga Family. “Because of Cat City I’ve put the Mézgas aside for a while.”

Metal shine and leather seat

Despite the fact that the second part preserves the visual traditions of the first one during the making of the film, not only manual drawings can be seen in the cartoon. 3D computer animation techniques are used for camera movements and for twisting backgrounds first of all. And also for visualising and moving different machines, vehicles, smaller objects, whose manual drawing is more difficult and tiring.

Safranek right before his bathroom accidents

The cat-mouse game taking place on Planet-X is supposed to be shown at cinemas in December, 2007.