I reviewed a while back "Urduja", a Philippine / Filipino animated movie from 2008, one of only a few of its kind, aberrations from the otherwise outsourcing path that Philippine animators and animations studios have taken:
But, as I discussed in the first video, it turns out that "Urduja" was initially seen as a television series / show:
In the press conference of Urduja held earlier today, March 26, at Florabel restaurant at The Podium, Mr. Antonio "Tony" Tuviera of APT Entertainment Inc. narrated that he had been planning to do this project for the past 10 years.
"It took us almost ten years to make this. Actually, we're on the eleventh year now. It started in 1997 and it was actually a dream of mine. My original dream was to make a series of animated features on television. But along the way, I found out that it was quite impossible to do on television because of the cost," he says. "Then I started to do a full-length film. In the span of eleven years, I gave up six or seven times and convinced myself that it was really impossible." (source: PEP.ph)
How much of the TV show was produced/worked on before the decision to turn "Urduja" to a movie instead is unknown.