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.

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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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.

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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:

Meet Buck is a new student short directed by Denis Bouyer, Yann De Preval, Laurent Monneron and Vincent E Sousa, who are studying at Supinfocom in France. Below is a trailer, and we’ll post the full short when it’s released in September.

We’ve posted a few shorts from this year’s final films at Ecole Emile Cohl, the French art school. Here’s 3 more favorites, notably all produced in 2D.

Colonel Duke et les Zombies de l’Espace (Colonel Duke and the Zombies from Outer Space) – directed by Sylvain Decaux

Helpers is a new PSA project aimed to help curb smoking in young people. The series of animated shorts was directed by Matthieu Gueritte and Bruno Villedieux at Wizz in France.