The team at Blue Spirit Animation, formerly known as Spirit Productions, has been hard at work on a new Flash-animated series titled Le monde de Pahé (The World of Pahe). It airs on France 3, and I haven’t read about it jumping the pond or being dubbed into English, but here’s a little sizzle reel I spotted:
Parisian animator Louis de La Taille has decided that celebrating 2010 need not last a single day – we can welcome it’s arrival all year long. Okay, he was simply just late on getting his Happy New Year (or Bonne Année, as they say in France) card out, but it’s wonderfully animated. He rendered it all in Flash (and composited in After Effects).
Parisian artist Art Grootfontein wishes us all a happy new year!
This film, titled Galileo, was animated in Flash, but in a more traditional sense than we often see. It’s the work of French-animator Ghislain Avrillon, a graduate of L’Ecole Pivaut, and while not much happens until the 1:15 mark of the film, it’s worth a watch.
Paris-based Xilam Animation recently embarked on a new all-digital 2D production. Mr. Baby (or Mr. Bébé) stars a 15-month old baby “who thinks, reads and talks like a grown-up.” A team of 20 tackled the 48 episode order, which is currently airing on France 3 in their Toowam block. Xilam chose an all-Toon Boom pipeline, boarding in the extremely popular Storyboard Pro and then importing directly to Harmony. Read more about the production at toonboom.com. Here’s a promotional web short (in French):
