Hasta La Motion!

Matea Radic and Dan Boey have created this terrific animated piece about the aftermath of a shipwreck. What do you think?

Edmond is not like everybody else. A small, quiet man, Edmond has a wife who loves him and a job that he does extraordinarily well. He is, however, very aware that he is different. When his co-workers tease him by crowning him with a pair of donkey ears, he suddenly discovers his true nature. And though he comes to enjoy his new identity, an ever-widening chasm opens up between himself and others. AWARDS Jury’s Special Price in Annecy 2012 Best animation film in Les Lutins du court métrage 2013 Bravo!FACT Award for Best Canadian Short in Toronto 2012 Best Short Award – International Competition in Tokyo Short Short 2012 Gémeaux Awards for the best animation show 2013 ANEC Award in Giffoni Best short film animation in Alpinale Nenzing 2012 Special mention of the Jury in Animasyros 2012 Gold Plaque for Animated Short in Chicago 2012 Metrange Beaumarchais in the Rennes Courtmétrange Festival 2012 Silver Mikeldi for animation in Bilbao Zinebi 2012 Best international short film award in Moncton FICFA 2012 Liberty Award given by the Youth Jury in Villeurbanne 2012 Best International Animation in Sydney Flickerfest 2013 NTR Go Short Award for the Best Short Animation Film in Nijmegen Go SHort 2013 National Grand Prix Nationa in the Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay 2013 festival Award for the best scenario in the Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay 2013 festival Best film (Bavarian Television Short Film Prize) at the Regensburg Short Film Week 2013 National Prize in the Ciné Court Animé of Roanne 2013 Special Jury Recognition in the Aspen Shortfest 2013 Audience Golden Horseman in Dresden Filmfest 2013 Golden Horsemen of the Youth Jury in Dresden Filmfest 2013 Jury Award in the animated films selection in the European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux 2013 Public Award in the animated films selection in the European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux 2013 “Maremetraggio” Prize for the best short animation film (ex eaquo) in the Maremetraggio short film festival of Trieste Best music in FICBueu 2013 2nd Prize for Best Short Film in the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus 2013 Special mention in the Vilnius Tindirindis 2012 Special mention in Espinho Cinanima 2012 Special mention in Clare Valley Film Festival Written, Designed, Edited and Directed by : Franck Dion – Animation : Gilles Cuvelier, Gabriel Jacquel, Samuel Guénolé et Claire Trollé (Studio Train-train) – 3D Modelling : Vincent Duponchel – Rigging and 3D Rendering : Vanilla Seed – Original Score : Pierre Caillet – Sound Design : Pierre Yves Drapeau – Producers : Franck Dion, Richard Van Den Boom (Papy3D Productions) et Julie Roy (ONF) Co-produced by Papy3D Productions, the National Film Board of Canada and and Arte France with the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, CNC (Nouvelles technologies en production), Procirep and Ville de Paris. Technique : 3D © 2012 — 14 min 26 s visa: 116.292 http://www.edmondwasadonkey.com

PRODUCED BY PENSACOLA STUDIO SONG “MIDNIGHT BLUE” by MR FLASH LABEL Because Music France/ Ed Banger records DIRECTORS PENSACOLA PRODUCER Rebecca Pendarves 1st AD / CO-PRODUCER Stefanie Coimbra DP Bruce Thierry Cheung 2ND UNIT Jason Chau 1AC Jake Ferguson GAFFER Tyler Chong KEY GRIP Joshua Batista G&E Jamal Solomon , Joy Kim, Matias Mamus, Tomas Velasquez, Jonathan White EDITOR PENSACOLA VFX Josep Foradada PRODUCTION DESIGNER Lotty Sanna ART ASSISTANTS Joshua Paulin & Blake Clay McBee STYLIST Jamie Ortega STYLING ASSISTANT Oak El HMU Beverly Nguyen PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Chantel King, Joe Saulino, Sam Rimland TITLES DESIGN Joshua Michael Paulin Starring BO MITCHELL COREY HUTTO BRUCE THIERRY CHEUNG PIZZA GUY – JOSHUA MICHAEL PAULIN PIZZA GIRL – RUBY PAGE KITCHEN GIRL – LOTTI SANNA BELLIES – BRANDON BURTON // ANDREW GOEBEL ARMS GUY – DAN SUTTI EXTRAS – RED MODELS

Tue 3rd Jun 2014 | News

Led by MPC VFX Supervisors Adam Valdez and Seth Maury MPC completed 875 shots for Disney’s Maleficent. Working closely with director Rob Stromberg and Production VFX Supervisor Carey Villegas, the team created a host of animated creatures and fairy world environments.

At the start of the movie we meet the young Maleficent. She flies into MPC’s full CG Fairy World environment with colourful trees, lakes and waterfalls, interacting with MPC’s hero fairies as she travels. MPC’s environment team built a library of photographic elements taken from a second-unit shoot for their human and fairy environments. These included trees, rocks and bushes. This CG environment was built in Maya, using IDV Speedtree as a basis for tree geometry. The team created 15 different types of creatures, all with their own unique characteristics and features. These ranged from the larger, humanistic mushroom fairies and ‘Wallerbogs’, to the more animalistic ‘Cheeps’, smaller delicate dew fairies and water pixies.

MPC were tasked with creating Maleficent’s iconic castle, which was created as a 3D model. A great deal of attention was paid to the texturing of the walls. The texture team layered different brick, mortar and masonry effects to the model to enhance detail and give a realistic look. The lighting team took inspiration from moonlit walks around Vancouver, taking photographs of different buildings hit by moonlight and its effect. They used a combination of subtle light sources on the model, including strong internal lights and firelights to make the castle feel as grand as possible and the compositing team added flags and soldiers to the battlements.
One of the most iconic scenes of the movie includes an establishing shot of MPC’s CG castle with a CG crowd arriving for Aurora’s christening.  MPC’s FX team created the green magic Maleficent uses to curse the baby.

In the moorland battle scene, MPC utilised their propriety crowd software tool, ALICE to multiply 100 soldier actors into a 1500-strong army. The team also turned the on-set standing stones into giant obelisks and added CG grass, distant trees and mountains. The team developed the Dark Rider chief, four additional Dark Riders, boar, troll and serpent fairies.

MPC also created the raven Diaval, that Maleficent transforms into a man. MPC’s animation team researched the traits of the bird’s behaviour, from their flight to feather and wing movements, spending time with a bird-handler to gather photo and video reference to create a CG model. To transform the bird into a human the FX team used fluid simulation ink effects and deep compositing.

MPC built a CG thorn wall, which surrounds the fairy world, and used its destruction tool Kali for the disruption of the soil. Soldiers attempt to destroy the wall and the team added CG fire balls, trebuchets, soldiers, fire and flame FX and destruction elements.

MPC created a full CG dragon and Great Hall interior for the climatic battle sequence.   MPC worked with designs created by production concept artists and continued to develop the fire breathing creature using ZBrush. The team has the additional complex task of transforming the creature into the raven. Digital burning embers, dragon fire and smoke FX fill the room and MPC also transformed the character of Diaval from raven to dragon.  Full CG soldiers were created to battle the charging dragon.

MPC’s artists also created a bespoke Disney logo using our CG Sleeping Beauty castle replacing the traditional Cinderella castle.  This also involved MPC FX work to match the Disney logo fireworks and sparkle FX.  A full CG environment was built to illustrate the opening voiceover and introduce the audience to the world Maleficent inhabits.

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