The Pirates! The Pirates! The Pirates! is a series of five comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. It is written by British author Gideon Defoe and was published starting in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The fifth book "The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics" was released in 2012, and was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation loosely adapted "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists " into a 3D stop-motion animated film internationally titled "The Pirates! Band of Misfits". Released on 28 March 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the
Live-action animated film Live-action animated film A live-action animated film is one that combines live action filmmaking with animation. Films that are both live action and computer animated tend to have fictional characters or figures represented and characterized by cast members through motion capture, and then animated and modeled by animators, while films that are live action and traditionally animated use hand-drawn or stop-motion animation. During the popularity of the silent film in 1920s and 1930s, the popular animated cartoons of Max Fleischer included a series where his cartoon character Koko the Clown interacted with the live world; for example, having a boxing