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.

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.

SFR, the French mobile phone company, has launched a new, CG TV spot aimed at the younger, digital audience. We’re introduced to a group of friends all connected by their handheld devices. The spot was animated by Wanda Productions. The ad is titled No Game Over.