Yet another amazing student film has emerged from the French school Gobelins. Le Royaume (The United) is the creation of Nuno Alves-Rodrigues, Oussama Bouacheria, Julien Chheng, Aymeric Kevin, Sébastien Hary, Franck Monier and Ulysse Malassagne. It’s surely an original tale. We watch a King boss around forest creatures, demanding a castle be erected in his honor.
I enjoyed the creative twists in Natalie Piotrkowski’s traditionally-animated short, Have a Chase. It was created in her final year at Vancouver Film School in the Classical Animation program.
After Monday’s post of the Gobelins student film Smoke My Christmas, I was thirsty for more. This morning, I drank in Jean-Luc, an equally wonderful film, that is infused with the rubbery lunacy that made me fall in love with animation in the first place. This traditionally-animated short was directed by Arthur Peltzer, Fabien Guillaume, Jean-Baptiste Maligne, Jerémy Macedo, Julien Daubas and Paul Nivet, third year students at the French animation school. It’s a fast-paced romp about a video game nut named Jean-Luc who suffers a seizure, only to be rescued by an amorous, dashing doctor.
…. and here’s a slideshow Paul Nivet put together of the development process behind the short.
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It’s a little early to start talking Santa Claus…. or is it? Seems we start this Christmas stuff earlier each year. Well, what better way to do it than a brilliant animated short. Smoke My Christmas was directed by Clément Desnos, Jean-David Fabre, Julien Perron, Rémi Salmon and Vincent Vernier students at Gobelins. The 3-minute short feels a bit anticlimactic, but the dance floor sequence on it’s own is worth the watch. [NSFW - nudity]
Brendan Carroll and Francesco Giroldini, two students at Ringling College of Art + Design, crafted this new CG short about a young monk sent on an important task. Since completing the film, both Giroldini and Carroll have graduated and begun jobs at DreamWorks Animation. Enjoy The Monk & The Monkey.
Sébastien Iglesias, a student at Supinfocom Arles, created this musically-driven CG short about a DJ and some beat-crazy birds. It gets really fun and abstract near the end, so watch it all the way through. It’s titled P-Jay.
via animatie.blog.nl
SlimTime is a new CG short co-directed by Bertrand Avril, Pierre Chomarat, David Dangin and Thea Matland, students at Supinfocom Arles. The film imagines a world where body fat is merely an inconvenience, whisked away by technology. Below is a segment of the film:
