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Short Film 8:02
Directors/animators: BERTRAND AVRIL PIERRE CHOMARAT DAVID DANGIN THEO MATLAND

School: SUPINFOCOM [ Ссылка ]

Animator and co-directors Bertrand Avril, Pierre Chomarat, David Dangin and Thea Matland at the Supinfocom campus in Arles, France: "We didn't have a brief as it was a school graduation project. But the pitch we created is: While his wife is undergoing slimming treatment, André goes on a discovery tour of this very unusual center...

"From the beginning we wanted to have a Jacques Tati feeling in this film. So we analyzed a lot his films like 'Playtime' and 'My Uncle'.

"We had to think carefully about the framing and the rhythm. As the shots are often quite long, we had to guide the eye of the audience to concentrate on the important actions. The masculine character, André, was the best way to achieve that. As we follow him, the narration goes through the amused look of this character.

"The main challenge was the length of the film and the number of characters we had in each shot. So the hostesses were rigged with Biped which lacks flexibility but it has great features to copy and multiply animation cycles, and to install each character on a path. It was very helpful for the wide angle shots.

"All the other characters had their own rig to deal with their own specifics. Thanks to Elsa Brehin (a classmate), and her scripts, we had the possibility to copy animations from a character to another one. It was really time saving."

Schedule: "The original idea from David was presented in February when he started working on the design and the global aesthetic. In May we started working full time on the project; we wrote the story together and started the storyboard, continuing to work on the world of Slimtime. In July we had the first 2D animatic and took some holidays. We restarted work on the film in September with the 3D animatic that we finished in December. At the same time David and Thea did the character modeling, when Pierre did the environment modeling and Bertrand the lightboard and the rigging. After that we started working seven days a week to finish the film for the jury on July 8th.

"We had four workstations with 3ds Max 2010, V-Ray, and the Adobe Suite. For the renders, we used Backburner on the other workstations of Supinfocom's network, shared with all the other films from our class."
Director/riggin/texturing/lighting/compositing/sound design: Bertrand Avril Director/environmental design/modeling/texturing/lighting/compositing/sound design: Pierre Chomarat Director/concept/character design/character modeling/animation/sound design: David Dangin Director/character modeling/animation/sound design: Thea Matland Music: Julien Deparis

Toolkit Adobe Creative Suite, Backburner, V-Ray, 3ds Max, Biped



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