Gobelins, the world-class animation school in Paris, has released four 3rd-year student films from 2009. Here’s two of my favorites:
Inka Bola – by De Mélody Cisinski, Jacques Jarczyk, Vincent Garcia, Floriane Marchix, Gwénolé Oulc’hen and Patrick Pujalte
And here’s a behind the scenes look at Inka Bola:
Un tour de manège – by De Nicolas Athane, Brice Chevillard, Alexis Liddell, Françoise Losito and Mai Nguyen
Exerpts from a whole heap of new shorts from the French animation school Gobelins are now online. The five films teased in this assembly all played recently at Annecy 2009 – International Animation Film Festival. Utterly astounding stuff here – hard to believe they’re students. Full credits are below. Spotted at Cooked Art.
Monstera Deliciosa – Jérémy Macedo, Julien Perron, Ornélie Prioul and Rémi Salmon
Fenrir – Nuno Alves Rodrigues, Oussama Bouacheria, Alice Dieudonné, Aymeric Kevin and Ulysse Malassagne
Jelly Sunday – Ugo Bienvenu, Julien Daubas, Clément Desnos, Florian Parrot and Arthur Peltzer
Dodudindon - Lucrèce Andreae, Julien Chheng, Tracy Nowocien and Rémy Schaepman
Le lac gelé – Jean-David Fabre, Fabien Guillaume, Sébastien Hary, Paul Nivet and Vincent Verniers
Also, here’s a making of video from Monstera Deliciosa:
The nominations for the 81st Academy Awards have been announced, and today we’ll take a look at the 2 animation categories…
Five films were nominated, most notably Oktapodi – as it’s a student film. Few (if any) student-produced films have been nominated in this category. Pretty impressive. Here’s our five contenders.
A Russian film by director Konstantin Bronzit about a bathroom attendant searching frantically for her secret admirer in a love story that can’t be stalled. Here’s the 10-minute film in its entirety.
A 2:30 minute graduation film by six students at Gobelins in France. Oktapodi follows two octopuses who help each other escape from the grasps of a stubborn restaurant cook. The directing team was comprised of Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier and Emud Mokhberi. Here’s the film in it’s entirety:
To go along with the Gobelins theme a few of my fellow contributors have already posted about, have a look at Passion Ski, another film that came out of the French film school this year. Each year I look forward to seeing the Gobelins films, because it is generally, in my opinion, some of the most technically sound student work I have ever seen – in any format; 2D, 3D or stopmotion. And this particular film, about an alpine ski aficionado who dreams of international fame, carries the typical design sense that seems common among a number of Gobelins students year after year. While I admit that I would have much rather seen this done in 2D for a number of reasons, the films creators, Jean-Nicolas Arnoux , Quentin Bailleux, Antonin Herveet , Tom Haugomat and Célia Riviere, certainly don’t disappoint in showing off some of their animation skills.
The entire film can be seen at the Gobelins website, and note that this may not be suitable for work as there is some brief nudity. And here you can see the making of:
Also, if you are unfamiliar with some of the work that comes out of Gobelins, check out some of the past year’s student work by scrolling to the bottom of the animation gallery page.
Après la pluie (After the rain) is a film by Emmanuelle Walker, Manuel Tanon-Tchi, Sébastien Vovau, Charles-André Lefebvre and Louis Tardivier. The short was produced at The Gobelins School of Visual Communication. You can see the full film at the Gobelins website, but don’t miss this great making-of video below:
We’re not sure if Carlo Vogele’s CalArts graduation film, For Sock’s Sake, was what got him a job at Pixar, but it probably didn’t hurt his chances. Vogele took an exchange semester in California, traveling in from Gobelins in Paris, where he graduated from this summer. The stop-motion character animation was shot on a green screen, and then composited against the collage-style environments. The film shows what happens when various items of clothes jump the line and go clubbing.
Oktapodi truly deserves all the festival prizes and accolades it’s been getting these past few months. When the winning team of students from the Paris-based animation school Gobelins walked on stage at SIGGRAPH to accept the Audience Prize and the Best of Show Award, it marked a culmination of an intense journey for the talented crew. Have a look at the results:
Get the hi-res Quicktime version here.
On the official site, you can see a short ‘making of’ video that reveals some concept art and designs.
The film was created and directed by Julien Bocabeille, Francois-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, and Emud Mokhberi. Oktapodi was produced through the prestigious Parisian school Gobelins L’Ecole de L’Image, a visual arts college funded by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris, which provides training in various formats, but is best known for the Cinéma Department of Animation. It is here that the school archives many of the group films created by its students of the past 7 graduating years.
Now soak up some early development art by co-director, Emud Mokhberi:
