Pierre Mousquet and Jérôme Cauwe’s animated tale of two wrestlers won the CANAL+ creative aid Award at the 2010 Annecy Festival. Je Te Pardonne (I Forgive You) is the result of their studies at La Cambre in Brussels.
Cartoon Scum was a trailer for the 2009 Trickfilmfestival in Stuttgart, and it’s just now been released on the web. The CG short was directed by Jan Lachauer, and the team utilized beautiful, painterly texture mapping to give the film a unique look. You’ll see iconic animation character like Popeye, Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh all popping up. It was produced at the Filmakademie. Louis Tardivier, a former Gobelins student, handled he textures and color design.
Fellow NYer’s, Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, a dynamic duo of the NY animation scene, have shared with us and the rest of the online world their latest short, Something Left, Something Taken, a dark comedy inspired by a trip to San Franciso, which was in production for about 2 years and 3 months, in between commissioned work and done at night and on weekends.
I had the pleasure of seeing it several times already, and I can’t say enough good things about it. The style is fresh, the animation is amazing and full of clever subtleties. But I think what gets me excited the most is getting to see all the making of material on their blog. They’re certainly not shy with their creative process and it’s shows just how much pride and enthusiasm they have for even for the tiniest details.
The film has already received a number of achievements, and I am sure will continue to do so in the coming months, so check their site for updates, as well as the full list of credits for the film. Also check out some of their other work, including Electric Car which recently took home a 3rd place award at the ASIFA East International Film Festival. Congrats Max and Ru!
The 2010 Annecy Festival has released two more signal films from the students at Gobelins. The first, Red River Bay, takes us to a beast-filled swamp, and the second, Junk Space, fuses baseball, junk and some metaphysical energy cloud thing. Not sure what it all means, but damn is it beautiful.
Red River Bay – directed by De Rémi Bastie, Nicolas Dehghani, Rachid Guendouze, Maxime Mary and Jeremy Pires
Junk Space – directed by De Marion Delannoy, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Paul Lacolley, Kevin Manach and Nicolas Pegon
After yesterday’s post about the 2 brilliant signal films for the 2010 Annecy Festival, I feel spoiled. Prepare for more spoiling. Today we get another, equally as wonderful film from students at Gobelins. Chaman was directed by De Théo Boubounelle, Chloé Bury, Jean Baptiste Cumont, Claire Fauvel and Vincent Nghiem. It focuses on “a curious child who discovers the magical world behind the ritual of the shamans of his tribe.”
One of the co-directors, Vincent Nghiem, posted this “making of” video, which includes nearly 3 minutes of production design, storyboards, animatics and rough animation.
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Two new signal films for the 2010 Annecy Festival have arrived, straight of the Gobelins’ university ovens. The festival began yesterday and runs through June 12th. As in previous years, the student body at Gobelins delight us with gorgeous and clever shorts that whet the audiences’ appetite.
Soapy Trip – Sylvain Fabre, Guillaume Fesquet, Adeline Grange, Julien Rossire and Clara Voisin
M Eustache – dir. De François Barreau, Violaine Briat, Clément Girard, Benoit Tranchet and Maïté Xia
For this year’s Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which is running through ’til June 13th, the production company known as Oh, Hello produced this bumper. It’s an ambitious piece of aniamtion, zooming through space and time at a breakneck pace.
