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De winter komt er aan, dus tijd om een paar mooie klassiekers in huis te halen voor de kinderen.
Naast The Snowman and the Snowdog volgt nog The Snowman (1982) en Father Christmas (1991)

Starlight Editions Presents

The.Snowman.and.the.Snowdog.2012.h265.1080p.10bit.AC3.Remastered.Starlight.Editions

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560206/

Rating .............: 7.2/10
Genre ..............: Animation | Short | Family

Studio .............: Lupus Films / Snowdog Enterprises, for Channel 4
Language ...........: No dialogue | Songs in English
Year ...............: 2012

Runtime ............: 23 min 48 s
Source .............: 1920x1080 x264 master (mkvmerge, 2013)
Video ..............: 1920x1080 (16:9)
Codec ..............: H.265 (HEVC) Main 10 / 10-bit
Audio ..............: AC-3 (Dolby Digital, Stereo)

About this restoration:

The source is a 1920x1080 x264 encode muxed in 2013, already sitting
at full HD resolution. It was put through two AI passes and
re-encoded to lift the residual compression artifacts and softness
out of the source while keeping the original 16:9 frame and the
gentle, hand-drawn crayon look it shares with the original Snowman
film.

Pass 1 .............: Starlight Mini
Noise reduction and image restoration applied
to the 1080p x264 source, cleaning up
compression blocking and residual grain ahead
of detail restoration.

Pass 2 .............: Gaia 2 - Detail Restoration
AI-based detail restoration and sharpening at
the native 1920x1080 resolution, preserving
the original 16:9 frame without upscaling.

Pass 3 .............: H.265 Encoding (NVENC)
Encoded to H.265/HEVC (Main 10, 10-bit) with
hevc_nvenc at ~8018 kb/s average.
Color space: BT.709 (TV range)
Audio: source AC-3 640 kb/s stereo track
carried through untouched.

The result is a cleaner, steadier presentation of the film, with
restored fine detail and reduced compression artifacts - without
losing the hand-drawn warmth that ties it back to the original
Snowman.

Credits:
Director ...........: Hilary Audus
Writers .............: Hilary Audus & Joanna Harrison
Based on characters
created by ..........: Raymond Briggs
Music ...............: Ilan Eshkeri
Songs ................: Andy Burrows - "Light the Night" &
"Hometown (Flying Home)"
Producers ............: Camilla Deakin & Ruth Fielding
Production ..........: Lupus Films / TVC, for Channel 4

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Screenshots: https://postimg.cc/gallery/HcPc8CK

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