The Great Polar Bear Adventure (Full Frame)

"The Great Polar Bear Adventure" takes audiences to a whole new world by combining wildlife footage of polar bears in the Arctic with cutting edge animation normally the domain of big budget studio features. The story begins with Ikuk who becomes pregnant for the first time. She gives birth to two beautiful cubs, Cassie and Asak, but is nervous about how to teach the cubs survival skills. The family befriends a skitter arctic fox, Pupa (voiced by Howie Mandel), who scavenges after their food and warns of threats from the dangerous, old polar bear, Krakush. With the rise of global warming, Ikuk discovers her traditional hunting grounds have melted and is forced to take her family to dangerous "two-leg" territory to scavenge for food. There she is separated from her cubs, who must ward off unexpected danger before reuniting with their mom. At the end of their story, we learn that the narrator is Cassie, grown from a young cub into a mother herself, and she recounts this story from her youth to the next generation of bears.

"Making Of 'The Great Polar Bear Adventure'".