My Dog Tulip is a 2009 American animated drama film based on the 1956 memoir of the same name by J. R. Ackerley, BBC editor, novelist and memoirist.
The film tells the story of Ackerley's fifteen-year relationship with his Alsatian dog (German Shepherd) Queenie, who had been renamed Tulip for the book.
As with the original book, the film gives detailed descriptions of the dog's bowel movements and sex life – received as "positively juvenile"[9] and helping the film achieve realism and avoid anthropomorphism.
[10] Fierlinger and his wife divided the film into fourteen sections, making it over a two and a half year period[11] using TVPaint, a French, bitmap-based digital animation software package.
[11] The film alternates between several animation styles: fully rendered scenes, simple drawings, black and white line illustrations and quick notepad sketches.