Evelyne Badami, a Flash animator and designer, recently worked on a lively French TV spot for Kubus juices. Along with Olivier Clert, she brought this environmentally-minded ad to life for Paris-based Purple Productions. Prior to this, Badami has worked on several Flash-animated TV series including Frankenstein’s Cat and Atomic Betty.
Thierry Marchand created this Flash-animated short back in 2006 when he was a student at the French art school Gobelins. The film is titled Monstres en Boite, and it features well-executed action shots, inventive layouts and strong posing.
You may have seen his work before in the 3D realm. He was one of the artists who collaborated to create Oktapodi at Gobelins in 2007.
25-year old French animator Sebastien Wojda created this action-packed, Flash animated short titled Chaccage about a boy with an active imagination. Wojda studied at the French school Gobelins.
In 2006 at Gobelins, the French animation school, Jean-Nicolas Arnoux created this Flash-animated short titled Professeur Jean-Tiburce. You’ll recognize Arnoux’s signature font design in his traditionally-animated group project from 2007 - Emile et les fabuleux petits monsieurs.
Benjamin Renner, an animator and illustrator living in Landerneau, France, is using his craft to comment on the topic of environmental protection. His short film Le plus gros Président du Monde (The Biggest President of the World) was traditionally animated in Flash and supported by Canal J and the Syndicat des Producteurs de Films d’Animation (SPFA).
To see a larger format version of the film, head over to Renner’s website.
Marc “Marko” Armspach added this animated segment to a recent stageplay in France featuring the Basque tales of Koldo Amestoy. It is titled Harilka, du fil à la pâte. It is surely an homage to the Osvaldo Cavandoli’s La Linea. This clip has no audio.