The Legend of Sepehr
A Journey to the Heart of Ancient Legend

Original title: The Legend of Sepehr

Directed by: Emad Rahmani – Mehrdad Mehrabi

Writer: Emad Rahmani

Country: Iran-Turkey

Year of production: 2022-2023

Running time: 01 h 38 min

Category: Feature film

Techniques used: 3D and 2D computer

Version: English Dubbing and French Subtitle

Process: Colour

Target public: Kids, Teens, Young adults

On an ancient island, Sepehr, a 10-year-old child, and his friend Baboo, a playful and humorous cheetah, start their journey to fight Ahriman, who has captivated his family and seeks the eternal domination of darkness in the world. A legendary and turbulent journey to faraway lands to find a magical solution.

The Legend of Sepehr is an Action-Drama 3D animated fantasy movie with a magical atmosphere aimed at a target audience of children, teenagers, and adolescents using a 35mm camera with 4K resolution.

The audiences of the cinematic animation, The Legend of Sepehr, fall into three categories:

First, we have child and teenage audiences expecting cinematic animation to have a proper and fast-paced rhythm with a compelling narrative of the character’s heroic journey. This can be seen in most modern and popular works, such as Raya and the Last Dragon, one of Disney’s recent works. The Legend of Sepehr meets the demands of the audience byrelying on an ancient Iranian legend, an engaging atmosphere, and the main character’s many reactions within the story, which is sure to place this animation on their watch list.

The comic atmosphere, musical scenes, and deep and lovely concepts such as friendship, loyalty, kindness, excitement, and family have always been interesting and of priority to the audience of long cinematic animations. The Legend of Sepehr portrays this deep connection and the main scheme of its story, which is based on the friendship between Sepehr, a 10-year-old kid, and his cute 4-year-old cheetah, Baboo, which can entertain the audience while watching a magical and legendary story. Further, it can invoke beautiful emotions in the audience, bringing a smile to their face, exciting them, and of course, astonishing them at times. Thus, The Legend of Sepehr will also be on the watch list of this group of audiences.

New atmospheres, unheard stories, and Eastern culture have always captivated audiences across the world. Even though big American and European companies produce unmatched works with captivating stories, The Legend of Sepehr has the capacity to attract the audience looking for high-quality stories and appeal to

Ancient legends have it that Zurvān, the god of time, was deceived by his unrighteous offspring, Ahriman, and conceded to grant him kingship for 9000 years in exchange for 9000 years of the sovereignty of his righteous offspring, Ahura Mazda, in the hope that in the end in a battle between good and evil, humans would make the right choice. In the final days of the kingship of the righteous against the efforts of Ahriman for eternal domination of the world, on a beautiful and quiet island, in a kind family, 10-year-old Sepehr and his best friend Baboo, a cheetah who lost his family during his childhood, are involuntarily dragged into this ancient legend. Sepehr’s family, friends, and neighbors are imprisoned ina sudden attack on the island by the sea monster, which starts off the long journey of Sepehr and Baboo to save the ones he loves.

The Legend of Sepehr is a 3D animated fantasy movie in a colorful and happy atmosphere centered on ancient legends with an attempt at presenting a happy, exciting, and pleasant visual narration of the work to child, teenage, and young audiences. Although the Legend of Sepehr is set in an imaginary world and at an unknown time, Eastern elements are incorporated into the environment to make it more unique and create a different feeling. Some of the most significant graphical features of The Legend of Sepehr are as follows:

Utilizing an array of fantasy and appealing characters (including ordinary people, evil creatures, ghouls, animals, etc. with a focus on the relationship between Sepehr and Baboo as the main characters) with ancient eastern clothing and following modern standards in facial and body rigging to better convey the feeling of the animation and the stylish behavior of the characters.

Utilizing Alembic files based on the development of XGen tools in the Unreal Engine to enhance the rendering quality and use physics for the hair of the characters and animals.

Utilizing the programming of Engine to create environmental tools for easy access to the layout and variety in the environments.

Utilizing real-time rendering with a corresponding quality with same-level offline renders by following the fantasy styles and magical setting of the work, as well as a unique form of lighting.

Increasing the ability to modify the work due to the rendering speed.

Utilizing a system such as Niagara in Unreal Engine to enhance the behavior of the masses and the dynamics of the environment.

Utilizing different rendering layers in the composite without reducing the production speed.

The ability to simultaneously use special effects in the composite and the layout in the engine, which results in easy modification and the possibility of directing the effects.

Syncing 3D software parallel with rendering for ease and increase in modification.

The Legend of Sepehr is a 3D animated fantasy movie in a colorful and happy atmosphere centered on ancient legends with an attempt at presenting a happy, exciting, and pleasant visual narration of the work to child, teenage, and young audiences. Although the Legend of Sepehr is set in an imaginary world and at an unknown time, Eastern elements are incorporated into the environment to make it more unique and create a different feeling. Some of the most significant graphical features of The Legend of Sepehr are as follows:

Utilizing an array of fantasy and appealing characters (including ordinary people, evil creatures, ghouls, animals, etc. with a focus on the relationship between Sepehr and Baboo as the main characters) with ancient eastern clothing and following modern standards in facial and body rigging to better convey the feeling of the animation and the stylish behavior of the characters.

Utilizing Alembic files based on the development of XGen tools in the Unreal Engine to enhance the rendering quality and use physics for the hair of the characters and animals.

Utilizing the programming of Engine to create environmental tools for easy access to the layout and variety in the environments.

Utilizing real-time rendering with a corresponding quality with same-level offline renders by following the fantasy styles and magical setting of the work, as well as a unique form of lighting.

Increasing the ability to modify the work due to the rendering speed.

Utilizing a system such as Niagara in Unreal Engine to enhance the behavior of the masses and the dynamics of the environment.

Utilizing different rendering layers in the composite without reducing the production speed.

The ability to simultaneously use special effects in the composite and the layout in the engine, which results in easy modification and the possibility of directing the effects.

Syncing 3D software parallel with rendering for ease and increase in modification.