Emanuelle Walker
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:
Après la Pluie ©2008Gobelins from Emmanuelle Walker on Vimeo.
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.
I agree with the honorable Mr Mike C.
Although I think it’s as much the fluidity of the animation as it is the building-scape.
The opening of Tekkon Kinkreet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IU9pqWA3go
(It’s worth noting that studio 4°C also did “Beyond” for the animatrix, which was another animation that took me by surprise)
Beyond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4oAVPY5MXk
Studio 4°C: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_4%C2%B0C
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.