 Production rose in the following years, and in 2000 four films competed for the Goya Award for the first time.The Living Forest (2001) was the first widely distributed CGI feature, but most films were made in traditional animation for the first half of the decade.While most of them were influenced by American animation, "Gisaku" (Baltasar Pedrosa, 2005) was branded as "the first Spanish anime feature" and released at nearly the same time in Japan and Spain.