Les 50h de l'Animation
In February 2020, about 40 students from 4 arts school gathered in Ceruleum School of Visula arts, in order to work together on a charity project named "Les 50h de l'Animation." The project : Create, in 50 hours, 5 Animation movie for the charity association Terre des hommes, which was celebrating its 60 years old.
I took part in this event, and animate one of the 5 movies created.
Blog time !
Thursday February 6, after a storyboard lesson, during which our storyboard for the film "Erreur de Jugement" was completely rearranged and turned upside down, I went to the Gare de Lyon, where I met the other LISAA students, in order to take a train to Lausanne, Switzerland, city where the Ceruleum school is located.
I took advantage of the (long) trip to update the production follow-up of my graduation film, as everyd production manager would do, which kept me busy a long part of the trip, because of the many changes of the morning.
We arrived at Lausanne station and were greeted by the students of the Ceruleum school. After getting to know each other, we left our things at the hotel (4 stars) booked by LISAA, and we went to eat pizzas. And very fortunately, we managed to negotiate two pizzas for the price of one, which saved us from paying 25 euros FOR one pizza.
Friday morning, after breakfast at the hotel, we went to the Céruleum school, which we visited. The weather was fine that day, which, it seems, is quite rare there, so we went for a walk in the city, as well as on the shores of the lake.
At 1 p.m., we returned to school and formed teams, mixing LISAA, Céruleum, and Hoschschule Luzern's students.
The team
Yvan NUSSBAUMER
Lino DE TIANI
Jordi MURILLO
Mélanie GERBER
Guillaume LUCAS
Camille DOMAIN
Sound design and music
Maxime MAFFRE
Mattéo HERNANDEZ
Once the teams made, we thought about the very short film we were going to make, for Terre des hommes' 60th anniversary. So we looked at the association's website, as well as their advertising campaigns, and their actions, to end up noticing that the orange, the fruit, came back very often. So we decided to find a way to use this recurring element.
Several different ideas were mentionned, before converging to one idea: An orange fallen to the ground, picked up by a benevolent hand. As the discussions progressed, the idea became clearer, the orange symbolizing the child, it ended up transforming into a baby at the end of the film, in the benevolent hands. But why is the orange on the ground at the start? Why are children taken care of by Terre des hommes? Because they are fleeing war, poverty, child soldiers ... So the orange would be in a tree at the start of the film, but why would it fall? Because she is threatened by something, but by what? How about crows? Hmm ...
And that's how production began. We did a storyboard and an animatic the first day, then we animated the following days.
On this project, I animated the crows, while the others animated the hands in rotoscopy.
We finished Sunday in the morning, and we returned our film at 3 pm, before leaving for Lausanne station.