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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

“Onward” + Nike = Good stuff

Here’s a great animation done for Nike by James Jarvis. Simple, engaging and a great story-telling example.

Short-movie by Robert Valley (2003). Not sure about the music but it sounds like a Massive Attack song.

Robert Valley is an american artist who worked on Aeon FLux (direction), Dark Fury (story-boarding), but he’s the main animator on Gorillaz music videos.

A great artist.

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.