My Dog Tulip (2009) on Netflix
A man takes in a German Shepherd and calls her Tulip. The two become constant companions, and their life together runs fifteen years.
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- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb6.8/101,841 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes90%
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Plot summary
Tulip is an Alsatian, a German Shepherd, who comes into a man's life when he rescues her. The two become companions, and the account follows them across fifteen years; in life the dog was called Queenie, and Tulip is the name she carries in the telling. The material comes from a 1956 memoir and keeps to the animal's own nature, describing her mating and her bowel movements in detail as a way of holding onto realism rather than turning her into a person. The animation is made for adults, and the images shift between fully rendered scenes, black and white line work and quick sketches from a notepad.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My Dog Tulip (2009)
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- Paul and Sandra Fierlinger drew and painted about 60,000 drawings for My Dog Tulip, which contains roughly 460 scenes and 600 individual background paintings. Every frame was shot twice, giving 720 drawings per minute of the 81-minute film, 58,320 drawings in all.
- Paul Fierlinger and his wife Sandra made the film themselves over two and a half years, splitting it into fourteen sections and animating it in TVPaint, a French bitmap-based digital animation program. No paper was used in the production.
