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Mira Ignites Animation Career At Gobelins

aaron — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:15:24 +0000

Russian-native Nadya Mira is currently attending Gobelins in Paris, and working Flash into her bag of tricks. This 12-second clip, titled Rocketman, shows great promise.

French Duo Saw What Was Possible

aaron — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:36:35 +0000

A few months back, I wrote about Cut&Paste’s See What’s Possible Challenge, sponsored by Adobe, which featured several shorts animated in Flash. I somehow missed this one, titled Living Colorforms, which was designed and animated by Claude William Trebutien (Burning Safari). It should come as no surprise that Trebutien is a Gobelins graduate, and the art direction was provided by Baeyens Michael, who attended ESRA in Paris.

Head over to to the TroisCube website to see how they created the short, a process that also involved After Effects.

Marchand Attacks Imaginary Monsters

aaron — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:54:16 +0000

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.

Gobelins Students Conjure Up Animation

aaron — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:23:00 +0000

Patrick Pujalte, who I believe is in his 2nd year at Paris-based Gobelins, created this fast-paced short, titled e-magiciens, in 3 days with fellow students Jérémie Morrow and Alexi Liddell. They employed Flash, Photoshop and After Effects.

Frenchman’s Imaginitive Flash Animation

aaron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:06:00 +0000

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.

Arnoux Brings Professeur to Life in Paris

aaron — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:58:00 +0000

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.

Adult Animation From Frenchman

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:05:00 +0000

Louis de la Taille, whose work was featured here last summer, has released a new, unfinished animation. It’s a clip from Un Grand Garcon, a short he produced in February of 2006. It features strong character design, smooth acting, and a sexy moment (NSFW – mild nudity). De la Taille trained at Gobelins, the French animation school.

Sylvain Marc Chefs Up Animated Soup

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:05:00 +0000

Sylvain Marc is a 24-year old animator and director out of Paris who has a bright future ahead of him. His character design skills are world-class, as you can see in his 3D-animated 2006 school project Cocotte Minute (co-directed with 5 others), and his sense for timing and humor leave little doubt about his career potential.

In 2005, as part of an exercise at Gobelins, the animation school in France, he created a 2D short for CanalJ, a children’s TV channel. He employed Flash to create this piece which is titled La soupe à l’engrais or Fertilizer soup.

Fertilizer Soup was accepted to eight festivals including Ottawa, Siggraph and Annecy 2006.

For more, check out Sylvain’s blog and his character designs from Cocette Minute.