“Burning Safari” by Gobelins L’Ecole de L’Image

  • ©Aurélien Prédal, Vincent Aupetit, Florent de la Taille, Jeanne Irzenski, Maxime Maléo, and Claude-William Trébutien Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image

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SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Track:


    02

Title:


    Burning Safari

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  • Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image

Description:


    Small robots from space arrive as tourists on Planet Earth several million years ago and take souvenir photos. One of them wanders away from the group and meets an ape-man. Communication between these two races proves to be difficult.

    “Burning Safari,” a team project by third-year students, was created as a curtain raiser for the animation festival at Annecy. As 2D animators, our major concern was to apply the freedom of traditional animation to a 3D movie. From modeling to rendering, and for the animation, we strove to respect our graphic intentions, keeping hard edges and straight lines as much as possible for our characters and background models. We wanted them to feel like small toys that people would actually want to touch. We also used lots of matte paintings and compositing to get a warm, summer feeling throughout the film.

Software:


    Maya 7.0, Photoshop CS2, Flash 8, and After Effects 6.5

Additional Contributors:


    Directors: Vincent Aupetit, Florent de la Taille, Jeanne Irzenski, Maxime Maléo, Aurélien Prédal, Claude-William Trébutien

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