Category:Spirit Franchise

Spirit is a movie franchise owned by Dreamworks. The games are based on two movies: "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" (2002, tradigital - a mix of traditional and digital animations ) and "Spirit Untamed" (2021, 3D animated). Regional names of the first movie:
 * Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (WW)
 * Spirit : L'étalon des plaines (FR)
 * Spirit - Der wilde Mustang (DE)
 * Спирит: Душа Прерий (RUS)
 * スピリット (JPN)

The Spirit Horses
There are two different horses called Spirit, each belonging to their own movie. The original Spirit, featured in the 2002 movie, is a dunskin Kiger Mustang stallion modeled after a real Kiger mustang, Donner of Steens Mountain, later renamed Spirit. The second Spirit, also named Spirit Jr., is a buckskin mustang with a blaze and without a dorsal stripe. This Spirit is the son of the first Spirit, confirmed in a Youtube short and by the creators of the show in pre-release material.

Offical Video Game Cameos
Besides dedicated games from the franchise, official "Spirit" horses appear in different games:
 * In Star Stable Online, Spirit (buckskin, blaze) as a playable horse, released with the debut of the "Spirit: Riding Free" Netflix show. To obtain Spirit, you needed to do quests that refreshed every hour and then purchase a special Miradero Apple when you reached max reputation. Unavailable.


 * In Horse Valley (Roblox), Spirit (buckskin, blaze) as a playable horse, as a tie-in to the Spirit Untamed movie. To obtain Spirit, you needed to start and fully finish the limited "Mustang Sanctuary" questline, where Spirit is the end reward. Unavailable.

Unofficial Video Game Cameos
Many games use the likeness of Spirit to promote their game or increase revenue, as well as fan-made creations adding them to games. Here are some popular examples:
 * A popular Zoo Tycoon 2 mod replacing the Przewalski Horses with Mustangs added a Spirit and Rain possible coat color to the horses.
 * Star Stable Online and the Star Stable Horses app has a foal model of a chestnut paint with markings similar to Rain's.
 * The original loading screen for Horse Haven: World Adventures featured the game mascot riding a buckskin horse with a snip, who looked very similar to Spirit. This was eventually replaced with the current pinto, but you can still see remnants of the previous color in the forelock and surrounding forehead area of the horse.
 * A playable horse in Horses 3D is a golden buckskin Mustang, who looked very similar to the original Spirit. The other playable Mustang is pinto, and the two games were published by Ubisoft. Coincidence?
 * The horse on the title screen of Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch is a buckskin that looks like Spirit.

Trivia

 * Rain, the love-interest for Spirit in the 2002 animated film, is the first animated horse to be registered in the Paint Horse Association.
 * Spirit is not named officially until the final moments of the movie, where Little Creek, a Lakota native, names him "Spirit-Who-Will-Not-Be-Broken".
 * Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron was the first movie produced by Dreamworks originally for the 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio and is only the third animated movie produced in this aspect ratio at the time after Atlantis: The Lost Empire in 2001 and Titan AE in 2000.
 * Spirit's narration is entirely in his head, and the horses of the movie never speak out loud. Matt Damon voices the narration.
 * The horses in Spirit are praised for being very realistic, despite the difficulty in animating quadrapeds, with the major flaw being that horses do not have eyebrows, rather they have eye ridges.