Animated Short Film : Après la pluie

Après la pluie is a cute and short animation. Once more – it was made by Gobelins’ students.



Seeing this film is my first time to know how incredible Gobelins is. In animation field, we used to take those highly completed and high quality animations as “commercial animations” because these animations are good enough to sell. Sometimes to be said commercial animations is just a kind of praise. However, it seemed absolutely meaningless to say this to Gobelins’ animations. Their creations have been already beyond those commercial ones. They are just in another higher level.

Although this short film has no real story – just run and chase, it’s still charming. I like their art style. It mixes a kind of 2D painting with a 3D space feeling. Their solid art design can easily drags audience into the fantasy world. The characters design are also great, too. Big monster looks quite cute and elastic.

It’s usually fun to see a film's making-of because the process of a good animation is another kind of art. Here we got two. One is the official The Making of Après la pluie. Other one is made separately by Tanon-Tchi - a creator of this film - as a personal demoreel.