At Mondo Media, I’ve been in negotiations with the team at Autour de Minuit since late last year to distribute their new animated series Babioles on our YouTube channel. I’m proud to say that we’re now exclusive distributors of the first episode, Dust to Dust. It’s actually a composited show – with live-action plates and CG characters. The series is directed by Matray. You may recall the last production from Autour de Minuit – Logorama, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Short.
Chloe Stenopee Nicolay is currently studying at Gobelins in Paris, and over a 4 week period she produced this short below for the Cartooning For Peace initiative. It’s a project begun at the UN that challenges political cartoonist to help the world “unlearn intolerance,” and many Gobelins students are taking part.
Here Nicolay touches on a topic I personally have little tolerance for, as I’m sure you do as well. It’s about the rampant amount of pedophilia inside the church, and how the issue is often brushed aside by authorities. Just disgusting – a grotesque atrocity inside an institution blindly trusted by so many.
Ever seen a fancy zoetrope made from candy and tasty treats? Me neither. Well Alexandre Dubosc solves that with Alimation.
Here’s a wonderful, traditionally-animated promo for the French kids TV channel Tiji. It features an inventive concept, and a melancholic tone that you’d probably never see on a US network, which pumps out more sugar-coated material. The 2-minute piece, titled Colour, was produced by AKAMA STUDIO, a shop based just North of Paris.
Check out Vie d’enfer (Living Hell), a new CG short directed by Supinfocom students Romain Carlier, Sébastien Druilhe, Thomas Eid and Vincent Husset. I believe all 3 students have graduated at this point and moved on to work at Wizz in Paris. Below is the first 3 minutes of the film, which includes religious overtones, papercraft angels and a rather cute little devil.
The 2011 Annecy Festival is a couple months away (June 6th – 11th), but today we get to watch the teaser, wihch was created by the Paris-based studio La Station Animation.
