Spectacular lighting and atmospheric matte paintings in almost every shot help propel the warm and simple narrative of “Home Sweet Home,” the graduation film by Supinfocom Arles students Alejandro Diaz, Pierre Clenet, Romain Mazevet and Stéphane Paccolat. [Watch]
More smile-inducing 3D character animation work from Supinfocom students complete with the mandatory manic chase sequence and a scene-stealing narcoleptic ninja Granny. “Escarface” was co-directed by Eva Navaux, Burcu Sankur, Vincent Meunier, Lionel Arnold, Dario Sabato, Pierre Plouzeau. [Watch]
Emmanuelle Leleu and Julien Hazebroucq, two of the co-directors behind the hilarious Supinfocom Arles student film “A la Française” join NY’s Hornet for representation in the U.S. and Canada. [Watch]
The four members of new French directing collective Brutus (Thibaud Clergue, Aurélien Duhayon, Sébastien Iglesias and Camille Perrin) all graduated from the animation program at the Arles campus of Supinfocom in 2012 and just dropped us their first short film: a grindhouse-flavored concoction of speed and death called “Horde.”
“We tried to find an original look for this film so we mixed different kinds of renders. We also mixed different kinds of animation like a pose to pose in 12 fps for the characters, and a more fluid animation for clothes and props. We mainly used 3ds Max with V-Ray, Mari, Flash, Photoshop and After Effects.” [Watch]
