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A short animated movie made by Luis Briceno and David Alapont.

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“Pyrats” is an animated short film made by 5 french students from the animation school “Gobelins l’école de l’image” in Paris, FRANCE. It was made as an opening short done for the Annecy 2006 international animation festival.

The movie was completed in 7 months (including screenplay, storyboard and designs). The technique is basically 2D traditionnal animation with some scenes helped by 3D and flash.

Name : PYRATS
Type : student short movie
Lenght : 1min35s
Production : Gobelins, Paris FRANCE (www.gobelins.fr)
Year of production: 2006
Directors : Yves Bigerel , Bruno Dequier, Ben Fiquet, Nicolas Gueroux, Julien Le Rolland
Music : Yves Bigerel performed by Bruno Dequier
Sound design : Gerard Labady
Format : DV PAL
Techniques : traditionnal 2D and 3D
Softwares : Alias MAYA 6.5, Photoshop CS, After effects 6.5, Crater Software CTP, Flash, Logic Audio

Yesterday was the annual Oscar awards and the winner of short animation was Logorama, a short 3D movie made entirely out of logos. The concept is pretty interesting, because that is is close to the truth: everything around us is branded. Unfortunately, the story is weak, making the logos more like a gimmick, no matter how cool it looks like.

Ignore the preview video above and just go here to see the full Logorama.

It’s made by the French collective H5, who is known to make awesome animated music videos like Royskopp’s Remind Me and Goldfrapp’s Twist.

Here’s another music video they made, At The End Of The Sky from Darkel.

The previous post of Pas reminded me that Justice also released this really cool video with motion graphics on t-shirts for the song D.A.N.C.E.. This video made by the French duo Jonas & François has been nomitated for “Video of the Year” by MTV in 2007, so you probably have seen it before. They’ve done a similar video with LP covers which is the one above, which is a teaser for the ED Banger Vol. 2.

The duo has done many music videos like Madonna’s 4 Minutes, but it seems like the ones using animations are the best ones. The one above is the music video for Kavinsky’s Testarossa Autodrive.

As with their other videos, here’s another one that’s recognizable for its animation, rotoscoping and typography: Flair’s Better than Prince. If anybody knows the official page for Jonas & François please post the link – it’s seems like my Googling skills are a bit off today.

If you’re a fan of Justice, then no doubt you’ve already seen this. For the rest of you, here’s the video for Justice’s “DVNO”, a really nice motion graphic using popular titles and putting their own spin on it.

Watch this to see the title designs that the video was inspired from.

Here is a animated short movie named Jesus 2000 created by 5 french students, Rémi Bastie, Jean-Baptiste Cumont, Clément Desnos, Jonathan Djob Nkondo et Nicolas Pegon from the Gobelins (famous animation school in Paris) and produced by Wizz Design studio.

Music: R-Ash – Screamy Palmer

Technic : Flash + After Effect.

Official site: baidir.fr and the plan seems to be a season (26 eps). Animation done by Slim, a French mograph/post-production company.

Uploaded by pearl714, but I’m not sure whether that person made it or not. It is a wonderful animated short though!