Keyword - short movies

Master Piece : La maison en petit cubes

Well, this blog has been idle for a few months now, and probably for a few more weeks. But I can't resist to share with you that wonderful short movie who won the academy award this year for best animated short movie. Beware that's just one of the best short I experienced, I hope you will enjoy as well.

Director : Kunio Kato
Production : Robots

Interview: Meet Méline project

Méline is a superb short film project initiated by Virginie Goyons and Sebastien Laban. They both took kindly some time to answer a few questions about the project, once you read this I urge you to visit the links at the end of the article because their progress thread on the CGtalk forum is amazingly documented.

Meline Title

Residence: Lyon, France
Age: Virginie: 26 Sebastien: 25
Job / employer: Virginie: "Lead Environment" at Eden Games; Sebastien: "Director & Art Director" at Diplomatic Cover -
Education: Virginie: 3 years Computer ESRA; Sébastien: 3 years ESIA 3D computer graphics.
Prefered Artist of the moment: Virginie: Hayao Miyazaki , Sébastien: Steven Spielberg

1 - For those who are unfamiliar with your project, could you resume the story line?
"Meet Meline" follows the story of a little girl, Méline, who spends most of her time in the old barn of her grandparents. One day, while she is in the process of indulging in her passion, drawing, Méline finds herself faced with a unknown furry creature. "Meet Meline" follows our little girl in the discovery of this strange creature.

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Short Movie : Oktapodi

Bravo to the students from the french school "les Gobelins" who directed the short movie Okatpodi:

Directors :
  • Julien Bocabeille
  • Francois-Xavier Chanioux
  • Olivier Delabarre
  • Thierry Marchand
  • Quentin Marmier
  • Emud Mokhberi

They won the general prize at Siggraph as well as the audience prize.
Don't forget to have a look at their official website to enjoy a great making of.




Short Movie : Un Temps Pour Elle

There are a few short unforgetable (such as Migrations which I presented in a previous entry) . "Un temps pour elle", by Erwin Charrier is one of them. Erwin graduated from Supinfocom two years before me , so I had the chance to meet him and see how he created this wonderfull short At that time I considered this movie photorealistic and I think it's still a really nice piece lighting wise. Remember that Pixar at that time had released Toy story recently and it wasn't as credible on a rendering level.
I recall the meticulous work Erwin did on the ligthing, simulating global illumination and bounce lighting with omni and spots using shadow maps. This was really striking to see simple tools pushed so far in order to achieve such a great look
I need to mention that Erwin did this movie within one year (from the first synopsis to the final product) and he was alone

For the little story, I kissed my wife for the first time on a full solar eclipse day ( back in 1999), so seeing the short today brings back that memory as well ;)

Director : Erwin Charrier
Production : Supinfocom



Pixar's Last short movie : Presto

Here is a sneak preview of the latest short movie from Pixar which was shown before Wall-E in the theaters
I can't wait to have more time so I can finally watch Wall-E on the big screen

You can find the full length movie on iTunes for 2 dollars

Short Movie : Michael Dudok de Wit

I could be starting a long presentation of Dudok de Wit, and those two shorts, express comments about the emotions those shorts brought me the first time I saw them, but the best is probably to just let you watch them and get back on their content later.
Two true jewels of traditionnal animation from a wonderfull director.




Father and daughter need no explanation, no comment, if you haven't felt anything then that's it! you missed it, too bad... Let's speak about the Monk and the Fish

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Short Movies : Totalitarianism, Wars, Revolutions ...

These are themas that european animation movies tend to illustrate really often. Here is a selection of 4 movies treating the subject brilliantly and with some great and strong graphic style
Let's debate on the message/morale of those movies in the comments as they might be interpreted in many different ways.

La marche des sans-nom
Directors : Lucas Vigroux, Nicolas Laverdure, Jean Constantial
Production : Supinfocom

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Short movies : 3 graphical and musical experiences

Another great selection from Supinfocom, those 3 shorts are definitely great achievements in design and visual entertainment. I hope you will like those experimental shorts as well.

Musicotherapie
Directors : Amael Isnard, Manuel Javelle, Clement Picon
Production : Supinfocom




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