The South African Dream

When does it release in the United States? And will it get a big marketing push?

"I dont make mistakes, I date them"

As a 3D modeler and animator, I will address issues with this production from technical point of view...
First of all, environments look bland, empty and uninteresting. Main problem is lack of any detail in textures or geometry; with all sculpting and texture painting software available, it's not hard to add extra detail to any object... But each object in this movie looks flat and lacking any details. This goes for characters and environment objects. At moments scenes look like they are just plain clay renders.
Same as textures, shaders are also almost non existent; there is no difference between skin shader and dirt shaders.
Lighting is all done with couple spotlights and ambient occlusion... And that's a ages old method of doing lighting. Today, you need to have real calculated indirect illumination and more vivid lighting. Just AO for indirect illumination is not way to do feature movie.
Animation is all over the place! Camera movement is shaky (not in good way) and character animation is on amateur level. You need to have professional animators with a lot of experience to make a good character animation. They need to know how to make interesting movement and expressions. And animators on this film didn't know how to do that. There is reason why good animators cost a lot; because they are ones that can make movie to work or not! They are your actors that you usually have in live action movie... And animators in this film ware on B movie level of "acting".

Because 3D is part of my life and it's thing I do for living, I watch each and every one CG animated movie... There are good ones and there are bad ones... This one falls in to second category...