Astro Kid

Following the destruction of their ship, a 10-year-old boy called Willy is separated from his parents with whom he traveled through space. His rescue capsule lands on a wild and unexplored planet. With the help of Buck, a survival robot, he will have to hold on until the arrival of a rescue mission. Meanwhile, they meet an eight legged lizard-like alien named Flash, with whom they become friends, and together they discover the planet, its fauna, its flora... but also its dangers. == Voice cast ==

English Dub • Landen Beattie as Willy • Jason Canning as Buck • Susan Myers as Probe • Laura Post as Willy's Mother • Keith Silverstein as Willy's Father French Dub • as Willy • Édouard Baer as Buck • as Probe • as Willy's Mother • as Willy's Father == Production ==

Terra Willy is the second feature film from the Toulouse-based studio TAT Productions to be released in theatres, after The Jungle Bunch. Shortly after his previous film release in July 2017, TAT announced its production of Astro Kid with a team of 70 people and having a budget of €6 million. The movie was animated using 3ds Max and rendered using VRay. Some of the render tests used Substance Designer on their own for textures. The team used 3ds Max pipeline because of the most common plugins like Ornatrix and Forest. The studio only had three developers for internal tools that were mostly used for plugging any holes in the usage design of the forest planet to use UDIMs for the first time. Substance Painter was used in a new way resulting in loading all the UDIMs and being able to bake all the maps in one place alongside UV and surfacing on ZBrush. These were later exported to Autodesk software alongside materials for the hard surfacing, for metals, paints, plastics, rubbers and for the background props modelling. == Reception ==

The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and on Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes| from reviews. Tom Cassidy of Common Sense Media gave the film four stars out of five, saying "an animated alien adventure has learning, empathy, teamwork." Leslie Felperin of The Guardian give a rate of the film three stars out of five, saying that the animation is "fluent and densely rendered, although sometimes the characters have less subtlety than their surrounding environment. But, compared with the relentlessly noisy animated features coming out of Hollywood, this is refreshingly old-school and innocent." He also noted that the film is "meant to teach kids about self-reliance, cooperation, the value of outdoor adventure and risk-taking; and the obligatory environmental sentimentalism is also present and correct." A year later, Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald gave the film a rate of 3½ stars, saying that "a film crafted expressly for small children, but it has subtleties." == See also ==