Ok so I've got another freshly baked undiscovered media for y'all, and yes this one also originates from my Nan's DVD collection. I have no idea what multi-dimensional realm she was getting her DVDs from.
I'll do bullet points.
Firstly, things I know for certain:
- This was 3D/CGI animated
- It was definitely made in the 2000s specifically, so the animation was cheap
- The main character was an anthro lion.
- The movie had an intro that showed the lion guy in armour, it's hard to describe, I think he was holding a sword and glowing golden?
- The movie started out with the young lion running away from another character screaming. Like, this was the opening shot of it.
- It had a castle setting and was mediaeval themed I think
Secondly, some blurry details that may or may not be true:
- There was some kind of magic/wizard teacher character who was mentoring the main lion
- The teacher could shapeshift and I think the lion running away from the "monster" was revealed to actually just be the teacher shapeshifting into a different form to test him?
- The movie starts out with the lion being young, but has a time skip relatively quickly into it where he's now an adult.
My Nan also had DVDs of a separate lion-related franchise, the Paddle Pop Lion, and these really badly made movies to advertise it, but I doubt they're related. Unless there is a Paddle Pop Lion movie that's the same as what I described, then please do correct me.