The poster for the 2007 Anneçy International Animated Film Festival (FIFA)
Groups of students at the Gobelins school in Paris produce short films for the Anneçy Animated Film Festival as part of their final year film projects.
These short animated films are used as interstitials in between the major programmed screenings in the festival, and for many people who cannot be in Anneçy, they are eagerly awaited.
The first of these films to be made public is `La Grande Arche´, by Jean-Michel Boesch, Quentin Baillieux, Manuel Tanon-Tchi, and Sébastien Vovau.
It’s a high speed frenetic dash, with some great poses and distorted extremes in the animation.
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These four students contribute to a multi user blog that shows many of their illustrations. There are several mini (Flash) galleries at top right of this blog.
(You might be annoyed by the little javascript that forbids right click, and their use of nicknames also makes it difficult to see who did what.)
I haven’t yet found a specific “making of” website yet, but these things often surface after the heat of the deadline has cooled down.
UPDATE:
There’s a hilarious Annecy short due for release in a couple of days, called Chronos 1, about time travel.
A couple of sneek peek screengrabs:
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I won’t do a spoiler, you’ll just have to wait until the film is released on the 15th of June.
