I finally posted it on tumblr ! Here is the 17 sec short project created has an opening film before every screenings of the Rennes animation festival 2025. We did not ended up in the final presentation, but we were in the selection of our promotion's short films.
The brief was to include the event's poster (here in the end) in a very short time. We decided to interpret it as a gigantic eye belonging to the earth (Gaïa) that expels fireworks thanks to the cartoons incantations and the owl's orb.
Our project is a mix of 2D and 3D animation, so it was a bit of a challenge as we never practiced it before. But it a lot of fun and discoveries !!!
On this project, I was in charge of most of the concept art. But also the color script, the adaptation of the cartoon designs for animation, the owl's turn for the modeling, some digital paintings for the texturing, the 2D animation for the characters (rough, tiedown, and clean), some compositing passes between 2d and 3d compositing on after effect, and the credit's motion design.
I also took care of the graphic bible for the presentation of our short.
Please, take a look at this amazing artists without whom there would have been no project at all ! :
Maelys Delannoy (specialised in character design) : the owl's 3D modeling, concept art, 3D animation
Liza Zyranova (specialised in 2D FX) : fireworks 2D FX
Soazig Thirion-Larher (specialised in 3D modeling ) : background 3D modeling, eye's blendshapes
Mouna Maayoufi (specialised in 3D surfacing) : 3D layout, 3D modeling, 3D surfacing, compositing on nuke
Mélanie Fleury (specialised in rigging) : 3D layout, owl and eye's rigging, 3D animation
