The movie began as a script, written in 1994 by Jason Wolthuizen and Chris Wojnicz. It was illustrated in 1995 by Wojtek Trzcinski (3,600+ individually hand drawn cells). It was pitched to several, major Hollywood studios in 1997. It was unshelved by Jason in 2001 after meeting Devin Scott, who did the Soundscape production and Original Score (2002/2003). Completed for DVD with Dolby 5.1 Digital Surround on November 1, 2003.
Completion of this product, called a MediaVision, offers creative writers, artists and sound technicians/composers the opportunity to tell their story. This story was estimated to cost over US$150,000,000 in 1997. It was completed in 2003 using home technologies.
Technology used to create the MediaVision was intentionally limited to a single computer with a good video card and a good multi-channel sound card (affordable), a single music keyboard, a single microphone and a single piece of software.
While there are over 100 character voices in the film, nearly half are voiced by the key technical team, Jason Wolthuizen (16), Devin Scott (12) and Rod Hodgson (6).