‘The Elephant King’ director says world giant animation studios would praise his work

‘The Elephant King’ director, Hadi Mohammadian, says world giant animation studios like Pixar would praise his work.

Hadi Mohammadian, the director of the animated movie ‘The Elephant King’, says world giant animation studios like Pixar would praise his work if they knew how a small group in Iran was able to do the project on a tight budget.

“People judge our works with the standards applied to those movies that are being produced at many old-line overseas companies… but they should know that, for example, Pixar spent over $200 million to make the acclaimed movie ‘Coco’, while we only spent one-200th of that amount to make ‘The Elephant King’,” Mohammadian said.

Pixar Animation Studios, is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. 

‘The Elephant King’ is an animated movie made by Pooya Honar Group which is a Tehran-based small group founded in 2007

Set in Africa, the animated film ‘Elephant King’ narrates the story of an elephant who rules over its group like a king.

The queen bears him a son and everybody expects the son to replace his father as heir to the throne. The clumsy baby elephant, however, disappoints them all with its clumsy and incredible propensity to cause destruction and sabotage for the group.

The 90-minute animation has more than 200 people involved in production.

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