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La Main des Maîtres, a 2D/3D french student short film

Post by CaYuS » December 4th, 2008, 3:23 am

Hi there,

I just wanted to introduce you our student short film, from Georges Méliès school il France ;)

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In the middle of a revolution, the story of two young workers trying to claim their existences. Co-directed with two friends of mine, as our graduated short film.

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[ Credits ]
* Directors : Clément Delatre & Looky & Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet
* Music : Sébastien Renault
* Sound FX : Olivier Michelot
* Voices : Kira & Martial Le Minoux
* School : Georges Méliès

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* Watch it : http://www.aniboom.com/video/311868/La- ... d-news.com
* Official website : http://www.lamaindesmaitres.com

Thank you for watching!

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Post by Ben » December 4th, 2008, 9:10 am

Welcome Cayus!

Thanks for posting the link to your graduation film, and good luck with its success! :)

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Post by CaYuS » December 4th, 2008, 2:51 pm

Thank you for your welcome ;)

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Post by Neal » December 4th, 2008, 7:50 pm

Wow! Very beautiful! I especially liked the coloring and lighting!
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  • Tekkonkinkreet, Watership Down, A Town Called Panic, Howl's Moving Castle, Rio 2096, Mind Game, Fantastic Planet

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Post by CaYuS » December 7th, 2008, 2:21 am

Thanks for this!

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Post by breeson » December 9th, 2008, 5:05 pm

Hi Everyone,

There's just a few days left in the Aniboom Competition and we really want to win so we need your help!...
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Andrew Stanton short from 1988

Post by James » December 16th, 2008, 2:17 am

From the description:
1988, Apple was eager to show off the graphics power of its Macintosh II line of computers. Using a program called Super3D, a group of talented artists produced "Pencil Test," an animated short created entirely on the Macintosh. Keep in mind that QuickTime did not exist in 1988; the movie was output frame by frame to an imagesetter, and then recorded to film.
According to the credits, John Lasseter (who would have been at Pixar during this time) is listed as "Coach", while Andrew Stanton (who was not at Pixar yet IIRC) is listed as "Storyteller" and "Illustrator".


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Post by Ben » December 16th, 2008, 7:42 am

While it is obviously technologically crude by today's standards, the character still comes through, and it's all pantomimed as the best Pixar shorts are. You can see even from this early attempt where they're going with things...but slightly odd that Apple wouldn't have used Pixar itself to show off their power...what Pixar was doing at this time outweighed the results here and maybe Apple would have made more impact as revealing itself behind something more like what Pixar could do even then?

Still, fun little cartoon! :)

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Post by James » December 16th, 2008, 12:19 pm

Ah, but you forget the soap opera involved here! Apple founder Steve Jobs had been forced out of the company he created in the mid 1980's. He then bought the group than would become Pixar. I doubt the management at Apple even bothered to ask for Pixar's help knowing they would have to go through Steve Jobs.

And, again IIRC, weren't Apple and Pixar technically competitors at that point? Wasn't Jobs allowing them to make the shorts in order to sell the "Pixar Computers"?

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Post by Sullivan » December 16th, 2008, 12:54 pm

The point of this film was to show off the POWER of a Macintosh II computer.

I remember back in 1988 at an animation festival in Pasadena, watching this film. The HUGE gasps and applause that erupted when that "Rendered entirely on Macintosh computers" came up.

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Looking for Animated Shorts

Post by mwood » January 27th, 2009, 7:46 pm

We're accepting animated short films in our Animation contest until January 29th. Check out the competition at http://www.superu.ca/contests/view/45

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Post by Sunday » January 27th, 2009, 11:12 pm

I have one which is sure to be a hit. It is called "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" and dear me I seem to have run out of chalk.
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Great Krypton! Holy Bailout, Clark!

Post by GeorgeC » March 13th, 2009, 3:44 am

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f26c40 ... h-jon-hamm


Thanks again, to JamesHudnall.com for the link!

Best spoof video that's come out of FunnyOrDie in a LOOOONGG while!


And all the naughty parts got bleeped!

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Post by Once Upon A Dream » March 19th, 2009, 2:43 pm

I noticed that most of the songs are taken,this movie is all about sex in an exaggerated and it's pretty clear,also I noticed that all the marketing makes this movies looks like it's about a cute,happy,dancing little pinguine and it's a happy movie which isn't what this movie really is,they don't mention how he got banished or what happens once he gets to Miami.
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Animated Cat Shorts

Post by GeorgeC » March 20th, 2009, 1:28 pm

New animated shorts about Cats, or the Perils of Feline Ownership

... I can relate!




Simon's Cat - TV Dinner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s13dLaTI ... annel_page


Simon's Cat - Let Me In

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy ... re=channel



Simon's Cat - Cat Man Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo ... re=channel

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