At first glance, you might think this short film is a trailer of some animation feature film made by PIXAR or Dreamworks and want to ask when it will be playing in the theater. Actually, it’s just a students’ creation. Six juniors of Gobelins made this whole film from some original ideas to final 3D animation. It’s really amazing.
Everything in this film achieves a highly professional level. Firstly, the story is simple. It’s just about two octopuses’ fleeing. This kind of animals’ action film can develops advantages of animation and is welcome from kids to adults. Second, characters’ performances are very funny and interesting. It tightly catches all the audiences’ eyes from the first second to the last. People will be fascinated by these two octopuses’ actions and want to see more. Third, the art design of this film is really outstanding. If you visit their official site to see gallery or see the film - The Making of Oktapodi - you will know what I mean. As to animation students or even professional animation artists, their works are just so formidable.
This film has won a very big award - SIGGRAPH 2008 Best of Show Award. It’s one of the most important awards in animation field. The winner of this award can be directly nominated by Academy Awards Best Animated Short. Besides this award, it also won SIGGRAPH 2008 Audience Award, Annecy 2008 Canal Award, Imagina 2008 Best animation and a lot of other big awards. Many people believe that this film should be the biggest winner in 2008.
Visit their official site, and just know more about these incredible students and their art works.
Oktapodi Official Website
http://www.oktapodi.com/index.html
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