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.

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 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.