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On an oil platform, a story of friendship between two workers is compromised by the insanity of one of them. This one is a little more subdued than the usual student films from Gobelins, but no less effective. By popular demand, the 2011 student project by De Rémi Bastie, Nicolas Deghani, Jonathan Djob-Nkondo, Paul LaColley, Nicolas Pegon, Jérémy Pires, Kevin Manach (much of the team behind last years music video Todor and Petru).
“A man comes to get back his identity, stolen by an ogre while he was a child”. Absolutely bizarre, absolutely beautiful. Who’s Afraid of Mr Greedy?, is a 4-minute, traditionally-animated short directed by Simon Boucachard, Jean Baptiste Cumont, Sylvain Fabre, Guillaume Fesquet, Adeline Grange, Maxime Mary and Julien Rossire – all students at Gobelins in Paris.
Here’s our feel-good story of the day: Dante Buford, 22, who recently completed his B.A. in animation at Loyola Marymount University, was selected by Gobelins to participate in the highly selective character animation workshop in Paris this summer.
According to information provided to us by LMU:
Born in the city of Whittier and raised in Pico Rivera, Buford moved to Inglewood with his family at the age of 13. A member of the Crenshaw High School class of 2007, Buford’s first exposure to higher education was attending the LMU Summer Creative Workshop. Each year, a group of talented youth from the Los Angeles inner city are mentored by LMU faculty while creating films. After attending the summer program at LMU, he eagerly applied to the School of Film and Television his senior year at Crenshaw. Upon his acceptance to LMU, he was awarded the Cosgrove Family Endowment Scholarship, which covered his tuition and expenses throughout his four-year undergraduate education.
Buford’s senior project. Interview (image above), is a short animated film about a Mom stressing out over a job interview who is sabotaged by a vindictive woman competing for the same position. The first in his family to attend college, this trip marks Buford’s first out of the state of California and first time flying on an airplane.
My sincerest congratulations to Dante Buford, and his classmate Christina “Kiki” Manrique who was also selected to attend the Gobelins workshop, on winning this opportunity. We look forward to posting your films here in the future.
I’ll admit that I dismissed the piece as nothing special the first time I watched it, but I was quite impressed the second time around when I paid closer attention and realized what they were actually doing. The combination of drawn animation (Flash?) and pixilated live-action is mixed together very smartly. It’s done in such a way so that the piece has the cinematic bravado of a computer animated film while retaining the organic and expressive design qualities of drawn animation. It’s a worthwhile experiment that merits further exploration, and pushes Todor & Petru beyond the typical combo of 2D animation over live elements.
Their Vimeo account also features this earlier piece that appears to be a test or development for Todor & Petru:
So what did you do on your summer vacation? Louis Thomas, a second year animation student from Gobelins, made Playing With Light with his friend Theo Guignard over the summer, during their two month work placement at Cube Creative in Paris.
The pair did all pre-production, storyboards, layout, animation, backgrounds and colors. In fact, if they gave awards for use of color, this short film would be a strong contender for a top prize. I asked Thomas about how the film came together. He graciously wrote back with this:
“Madeline Peirsman helped us a lot on pre compositing (colors in photoshop). Then came Benjamin Moreau for the compositing during 3 weeks. We worked with the sound designer who also made the music, Adrien Caslis, because we wanted to have a sort of clip or a short film with a stronger impact due of the corelation between music and visuals…
“We also had a lot of advice from the professionals at “Cube” from the storyboard to the render, color script… We worked in 2D, animation on paper, then scaned and colors in photoshop…we made all the compositing in after effects and some miscellaneous animation (fishes, jellyfish and special effects) on flash.”
Continuing with the Gobelins animation (which I’m sad to say I’ve only now heard of!) comes this little gem from five students. It’s 3-D, but made to look as if it weren’t– and it really succeeds. I want to make every person working on 3-D blockbuster movies watch this. It doesn’t have to look like Shrek or Madagascar or any of those other copy-cats!
Er, I’ll get off my soapbox now. But I’m really enchanted with the world enveloped in this short and hope that les Manèges continue to make wonderful animations and show the world that there is a lot of life in 3-D animation– we just don’t know it yet.
Concept art by the team is also up at Alexis Liddell’s blog. Animation by Nicolas Athane, Brice Chevillard, Alexis Liddell, Mai Nguyen and Françoise Losito.
The latest short to come out of the Gobelins animation school is The Lighthouse Keeper, and it is stunning. So much suspense and beauty is packed into this three minutes of traditional 2D animation.
It’s the work of Gaëlle Thierry, Jérémie Moreau, Rony Hotin, Baptiste Rogron, Maïlys Vallade, and David François.
The Gobelins animation school in Paris seems to crank out fantastic animator after fantastic animator, and Emanuelle Walker is no exception. Her character design is so much fun, and don’t miss her illustration pages.
This super-fun film, Après La Pluie, was made by Walker and her cohort at Gobelins. I love the concept of water-as-portal:
I love what the French animation students are producing ! This is no exception, it’s mind blowingly well produced animation.
Makes me think of great Japanese offerings of Miyazaki and Apres la Pluie in particular reminded me of an anime called something like Tekenconcrete or something, it had a similar 3d cityscape in it and some crazy violent kids.
amped said, on 11/1/2009 11:08:00 PM
The movie was called Tekkonkinkreet, from the series by Taiyo Matsumoto, and yeah, now that you mention it, it kind of DOES remind me of it. In an awesomely AWEsome way.
I absolutely LOVE this animation. It’s so… well, the word creative wouldn’t suffice.
I love what the French animation students are producing ! This is no exception, it’s mind blowingly well produced animation.
Makes me think of great Japanese offerings of Miyazaki and Apres la Pluie in particular reminded me of an anime called something like Tekenconcrete or something, it had a similar 3d cityscape in it and some crazy violent kids.
The movie was called Tekkonkinkreet, from the series by Taiyo Matsumoto, and yeah, now that you mention it, it kind of DOES remind me of it. In an awesomely AWEsome way.
I absolutely LOVE this animation. It’s so… well, the word creative wouldn’t suffice.
LOVE it.