Un tour de Manège
Continuing with the Gobelins animation (which I’m sad to say I’ve only now heard of!) comes this little gem from five students. It’s 3-D, but made to look as if it weren’t– and it really succeeds. I want to make every person working on 3-D blockbuster movies watch this. It doesn’t have to look like Shrek or Madagascar or any of those other copy-cats!
Er, I’ll get off my soapbox now. But I’m really enchanted with the world enveloped in this short and hope that les Manèges continue to make wonderful animations and show the world that there is a lot of life in 3-D animation– we just don’t know it yet.
Concept art by the team is also up at Alexis Liddell’s blog. Animation by Nicolas Athane, Brice Chevillard, Alexis Liddell, Mai Nguyen and Françoise Losito.
Oh wow. That was beautiful. A real delight to see.
Amazing. Like a wonderful nightmare or dream, can’t decide which.
I love that it looks like an animated watercolor illustration.
OK, NOW I want to learn some 3-d animation. That was such a great look.
Mmm, reminds me just that little bit too much of Michael Dudok de Wit’s “Father and Daughter”. Beautifully done though.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8073865125170809223#
Wow, it’s nice to see people pushing the look of CG animation. This is really nice.