Production
Free Jimmy is the first computer animated feature film made in Norway, and the film took nine years to make. Several Norwegian companies were involved in the production and distribution, although a significant part of the film was produced in London at Slave Studios, the CGI company owned by animation producer Andy Frain. However, the main company involved in the production was Storm Studio, a Norwegian company.
By January 2004 it was apparent that the total budget would be three times as originally planned, and the premiere was pushed back a year. It became the most expensive film ever made in Norway at the time, until the film Max Manus was produced two years later on a bigger budget.
The lighting and rendering of the movie has been finalized in a Canadian company located in Montreal (Modelink). The entire job took nearly two years to finish and spanned 2004, 2005 and 2006.
The film is dedicated to Joachim Nielsen (1964–2000), the director's brother and a rock musician famous in his native Norway, who had died of a drug overdose.
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