''Guardians of the Lost Code'' ( es, Brijes 3D) is a 2010

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adventure film, created by Ricardo González Duprat, distributed by Videocine.

Plot

During a field trip to the history museum, the students Freddy, Atzi, and Kimo discover a giant stone disk called the Codex in the storage room they are exploring. Three of the brije within it, the deities Quetzalcoatl, Ra and Chu Jung, emerge and reveal to them that they are the three people chosen to restore the ancestral alliance between humans and brijes, an alliance that was fractured with the emergence of science and technology. The brijes are magical animal spirits that have been in contact with human beings since the beginning of time. Every human had a brije; the human cared for his brije and vice versa. When the human turned 13, a human shaman taught both partners a bonding technique that allowed them to synchronize and transform into a warrior form, gaining extraordinary power allowing them to perform various acts of heroism. Unfortunately, with the birth of modern science and technology, this union was slowly severed as humans stopped believing in magic, leading to tragic results. The brije in the Codex created and sealed themselves within it to protect the knowledge of the warrior form bonding technique from the forces of darkness that seek it. To fulfill their mission, the Codex presents the chosen ones with their respective brijes (Hopper, Cloko and Bri) and shows them clues that will lead them to find the missing piece of the same to activate it. With their brijes and the help of Quetzalcoatl, Ra and Chu Jung, the chosen ones begin their journey through space and time to find the missing piece of the Codex, all while fighting against the forces of darkness.

Voice cast

Production

This Mexican-American animated adventure film uses both

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and computer animation, produced by Santo Domingo Animation and directed by Benito Fernández, his

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. The pre-production work was done in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro (animatics and storyboards). The post-production was done in

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(compositing and visual effects), Adobe Photoshop (background art),

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(computer animation), DigiCel FlipBook (clean-up animation), Pencil and Paper (hand drawn rough animation) and

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(digital ink-and-paint) to uses of hybrid of

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and

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Music

The film's original score was composed by Juan Manuel Langarica. Notable songs also uses several scenery tracks such as ''Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This 91' Remix'' by Eurythmics, ''Puttin On The Ritz'' by Taco Ockerse, ''Oh Yeah'' by Yello, ''Blitzkrieg Bop'' by Ramones, ''Godzilla'' by Blue Öyster Cult and ''AbraCadabra'' by Steve Miller Band credits only.

Release

This film was released in

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on September 16, 2010.

Critical reception

Not many critics reviewed this film, but the ones who did, gave generally negative reviews. A negative review came from Common Sense Media, who gave it two stars out of five.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guardians of the Lost Code 3D 2010 animated films 2010 3D films 3D animated films 2010 films Mexican animated feature films 2010s children's fantasy films 2010s Spanish-language films 2010s English-language films 2010s Mexican films