Animation: cartoon french clip

[jcombe]

water

[jcombe]

tree

[john galt]

wow realy cool anim.. also the char is cute and lovely.. great work,
which software do u use?(the toonshader is cool!)

[Zmaster]

good anim,really good !,after watch this clip,the music remenber to me one music who pass on the nrj radio.i want to know wich software you use.

[PolyMangler]

4 people in 1 month with max [/B]

that's pretty impressive with max....i'm not a real fan of the package but very very nice work, can't belive you did that in a months time frame....great stroy board as well ....does the 1 month include the storyboarding and previZ?

[nanabaky]

it looks great but the large movie seems to be corrupted :/

[dbclemons]

That was lovely. Bravo! Great storytelling.

-David

[The-Buzz]

Good job! :thumbsup:

One month for this!! :buttrock: you are furious!:buttrock:

(seul hic j'ai pas de son :airguitar)

I'm waiting that you finish "bizard love project" :D

Good continuation !

[Marc Andreoli]

Oouaaaaaais
J'adore Mickey3D ! :thumbsup:
J'adore ton style ! :thumbsup:

le monde est beau...(respire)
:D

[chesky Wang]

I love this animation. very nice charactor emotion and good music.
especially the end, I prefer the end because it was gave a suprise and answer me several questions such as why the flower grow up and the deer was pulled back, of course the camera.
Good job. :beer:

[Zukum]

Very very nice. I truly enjoyed watching this. BTW the large movie worked fine form me.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Refracted]

wow, very cool work, and very nice music to go with it (though i'm fortunate enough to be able to understand it). I love the design of the character, textures, animation.. and the grass! that was very nicely done and very well integrated with the design of the character.

if you did this in one month (you and your friends), i cant wait to see what you do next month :)

[Gremlin]

Great animation, I really liked the story, and the style of the animation... good stuff, real good stuff!!

lol, I almost didnt understand, but it all made sense at the end. :D I LIKE IT!
"il faut que tu respir" ? <-- its neccesary that you breathe? i take french at school, so my ear my not be that good, nor my grammar or anything :rolleyes:

[SheepFactory]

Fantastic stuff ,

Plugged you both at Cg Talk and 3d festival :thumbsup:

[Fasty]

THAT IS BRILLIANT!!! BRILLIANT! FANTASTIC!! I love the direction celshading is going! :applause:

[Cman]

Brilliant twice over!!
Excellently done! Excellent!!

[Heber]

downloading this now , but your other project bizzare love , we need update! some high res screenshots too , great work jcombe , your cellshading is one of the best ive seen :thumbsup:

[suffix]

WOW!!!!!!! i haven't posted for a bit, but i had to for this! that was amazing! i love teh style toon shading, and the water. I can't belive that it was done in a month! i love the colors and the feel fo the peice in whole. it has a nice mix of toon shading and softed "watercolor" like shading. great song, great animation!!! :beer: :applause: :buttrock: :thumbsup: :D

did i mention that was great?

[1000]

thiis is great , very good story :bounce:

[Iscariot]

You are my hero now! Oh man! This is EVERYTHING I want out of 3D Animation.
Wow....Just wow.

[Kirt]

That's one for my collection of inspirational shorts/demos!
I just wish I understood the lyrics. :D
Excellent! :thumbsup:

[-JT-]

Great great great ! With such a name as mickey 3D they couldn't have wished for a better video. Well done ! :)

[Jozvex]

Really great!

Great story, great colours, great animation!

[ts9236]

Nice work ! :applause:

I like the colors.

:thumbsup:

[skello]

sweet.. Did you use any motion capture ?:buttrock:

[Mike Fetterly]

The sequence where she falls into the water from the branch showed a really nice sense of weight, and I loved the timing of her swimming. Beautiful image when she first falls in, too.

I thought her run had a Miyazaki feel to it, did you use any of his work as reference?


Mike

[Avitron]

Words can't describe how great that was. I'll keep that in my CG archive. :applause:

[eLm0]

i agree with kirt if only we could understand the words:(


AMAZING ANIMATION LOVE THE CEL SHADER woo good amazing work:beer:

[Snakeman]

:bowdown: i had no idea what they were saying in the song but that ROCK'D!!:xtreme: u da man......well directed:bowdown:

[ga-analytics]

Whow, unfortunately i don`t understand the text but the plot of your video. Fascinating work. All the little hints in the video that the scene is surreal and the fact that the video is rendered not made "traditionally".

It all fits together

Greets

Gre

[goodlag]

great work!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[gaggle]

Oh hell yeah, amazing, just damn amazing.

Someone feel free to post some translated lyrics.. :)

[wuensch]

masterful, I love it.
Great storyline.
Are you the guys that posted those incredible cartoonshaded ligne-claire Manara style dancing babes a while ago?

Applause,
Olli

[E.T]

Love it Jcombe!! Great work as usual!

[puddlefish]

fantastic work. love the character animation and the grass effect is great.
if i had to crit (and this is nitpicking), i'd say that the tree branch seemed a little stiff under her weight, maybe it would bend a little more?
bravo!

[Squarecloud]

SUPERB!!!

I love this animation. I really like the bright colors. It reminds me of miyazaki's work in spirited away. I also love the story.

Tres, tres bon!!!

GreetZ

[sforsyth]

Well worth the download, this is beautiful, and it's nice to see it has such an original ending to it aswell.

:thumbsup:

[takkun]

Really great! Beautiful storyboards, great animation, wonderful storyline!!! :applause:

[derelict]

Fatabulous Extrodinary Visionary..... Truly Beeetiful MTV!

Me likie!

GREAT WORK!

did i say it was fantastic? Here it is FANTASTIC!

[NANONEEN]

yeah !
it is really great !
je suis tombé dessus par hazard dut tf1 tard le soir et c t une superbe surprise !
le rendu est particulierement reussi, l'anim tres clean et l'histoire super original !
bravo

[siquier]

Great work, very inspired, congratulations also to the group. :applause: :airguitar :buttrock:

[insseuv]

jérôme, like always, u're the man ;) But, I hope to see 'Strange' finished one day :beer:

BRAVO :applause:

[danylyon]

very nice! Some of the scenes are very cute :love:

The only thing it's really missing, are sound effects.. you wouldn't believe how much more alive that would make it.

but I guess because it's a music video.. maybe that's no option.

[WesComan]

Loved the style and the story. I thought that the animation itself was perhaps a little stiff and needed a bit more weight in some areas but, hell, I'm nit picking. You did this in a month?!?! Jeez...did you guys get any sleep? :)

Great work, I really enjoyed watching it. Thanks for posting it.

:beer:

[henrik]

This is very very cool. I almost fell in ove with that girl o_O.
The storyline/ending is amazing. Great idea.
Some of the animation could be improved.
Good stuff.

[DimSum]

Yeah Jcombe, un grand bravo pour ton animation !!

J'ai adoré ton scénario, le découpage est nikel et la chute à la fin m'a bien bluffé. Décidément un chouette thème que tu relèves là, philosophiquemement parlant.

Graphiquement, y'a pas à dire, ça fonctionne au poil. Et l'animation du personnage est magnifique aussi :thumbsup:
Je suis actuellement en train de réaliser une anim pour mes études de fin d'années (peut-être que je la diffuserai sur cgtalk courrant juillet), et je me demandais comment tu as fait pour les expréssions du visage et le mouvement des cheveux...
Encore Bravo !

*I like your anim very much, the cutting out is well done and the story's end bluffed me. For those who dont understand the french lyrics, briefly, it tells about the humanity and his gloomy destiny.
It tells about the pollution, that the man is destroying his own environmment, so people that we are now, we have to "breath", that we have to take advabtage of what we have now...not when the world will be forsaken...sorry Jcombe if i interpetrated some of ur speaks.*

[solidus]

that was really cool.
what package are u using

[ZVAN]

Cool animatioN! GooD COnCEpT too! nICE toOn sHAdeR.. weLL, im workinG a 3d film ProJeCt, in a group of 4 too! Hope the outcome can be good! =)

[vfx]

Truly fantastic, the animation is nothing short of brilliant. The song is fresh and veryyyyy French! Love it. In fact, the most impressive thing is how well the concept has been carried out. The finale is great, what a great idea!!


Love to see more like this!

[That Adrian Guy]

:beer: :bounce: :applause: :buttrock: :thumbsup: :D :scream: :drool:
I watched this video about 6 times in a row... I love everything about this video! I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good job guys.

This may have been asked... but is this an actual music video? IF so, has it been aired?

[sphere]

Simply Brilliant! :thumbsup:

[slaughters]

Great animation. I do not understand French, but was able to understand the the story easily by watching the animation.

Since I did not understand the Lyrics this might not have fit, but one thing that would have been a neat addition to the end of the story would be for the little girl to look left, then right, and then dash back toward the end of the line again.

P.S. You really should re-do the animation without the song track. Just ambient forest noises, sound effects and sounds of a little girl playing.

[Gamoron]

:applause: :applause: :applause:
J'aime beaucoup. Magnifique. Ne jamais le change.

[Chewey]

That's very nice work!

For some reason the character's expressions in some parts reminded me of Gollum! :eek:

I'd like to see a version without the somewhat annoying and boring music.

[artfan1]

I've watched it 5 times and see more "clues" each time I watch. So very cool!

WOW!

artfan1

[billy_badass]

hey man i love your work, and have become an admire, keep it up. it 's inspiration too us all:thumbsup:

[RobertoOrtiz]

I am amazed that you did this in only one month!

And I love how the story seems like it came out of the
"Twilight Zone".

:applause:

-Roberto

[evanchiou]

great

[Matt]

A+

Edit: Make that B+... A lot of the animation looks linear, but that's fine. The one thing that looked bad were the kids waiting in line at the end. None animated until the very last second. (Don't people breath even in 3D reality?)

[PrayingMantis]

Cela fait un moment que je suis inscrit sur Cgtalk et je ne fais qu'observer. Mais la, je ne pouvais m'abstenir. Je vous offre mon premier post et il est bien mérité ( meme si ce n'est pas grd chose). Alors pour l'anim il n'y a rien a dire c'est jolie meme sans la musique le rythme et super. Mais c'est surtout le theme, waou vous avez mis en scene ce theme a merveille, vous m'avez ému. Et il n'y a pas beaucoup d'animation qui arrive a transmettre assez d'emotion. Je vous tire mon chapeau c'est vraiment bien. Je ne sais pas si vous avez l'intention de retravailler votre anim mais prenez en compte les commentaires des non-francophones. Comme dit ma prof d'anim une bonne anim n'a pas besoin de dialogues pour faire passer des emotions, je pense que vous pouvez paufiner la petite fille au niveau expression, il faudrait que vous arriviez a faire transmettre cette emotion a travers des sons et des expression. Une vidéo que j'ai adoré que je trouve vraiment emouvante c'est "Don't Cry", de Vincent Bui.
Bon Voila sinon chapeau c'est vraiment bien.

[Dearmad]

Wow, what a touching piece of animation. Incredible. That you evoked an emotional response from me is about the best "crit." I can give you.

-sigh- Now that I'm sad, I think I'll go to school and piss somebody off to cheer myself up. ;)

[Rot]

Hi jcomb !
I really like your work. And I really love this "Miyazaki feeling" !!!

Rot

[DDrake]

Amazing... I Love the story :D
Who are the singer? (or the band)

Which software did you use for the dinamics of the skirt?


Amazing Job!

[fango]

this just beat For the birds in my own personal favorite cg-short list )

always been a big fan of your work jcombe (i think i have some of your work as my wallpaper to keep me motivated heh) . one of my instructor said , after watching the clip, "with the right amount of prepro anything's possible" and this music video proves him right.

felicitations et total respect, garcons )


(translating DarkVidor's comment for non french speakers, since i read a thread some time ago about how uncool it was not to understand what some people were writing about)

" I subscribed to cgtalk for a while now and the only thing i do is lurk. but now, i couldn t restrain myself and i offer you my first post and you very well deserve it (even if it's not much) . Animation wise, nothing is to be said even without the music, the pace/rythm is superb. But most of all it s the theme, wow you marvelously executed this theme, you moved me. And there s not many animations that can manage to convey that much emotion. i bow to you , it s really good. i don t know if you plan on reworking the animation but take in consideration the comments of non french speakers. Like my anima instructor says, a good animation can be enjoyed without dialogues to convey emotions, i think you could tweak the little girl in term of expressions, you d have to convey this emotion through sounds and expression (he lost me there.) A video i enjoyed and found moving was "Don't Cry" from Vincent Bui.
anyhow here it is, great job it really good."

[PrayingMantis]

Fango: I didnt't say their expression was wrong I just said it could be better, all could be better perfection isn't. And I read all the post and some of them make crits about this not bad crits, just perfect it. For me at the end the girl is sad everybody can see it but we can show it more intensely. But it's a great great animation.

[lildragon]

Absolutely loved it :thumbsup: the timing, the atmosphere, the rendering, everything was well done. I really don't have much more to add :)

You have received the CGtalk choice award .Please feel free to display this image anywhere you like! Very very nice work!.

upon receiving this award, it guarantees you a spot in the cgtalk gallery hall of fame (http://gallery.cgtalk.com) - which you are now placed

http://www.cgtalk.com/plug_award/cgtalk_award_feb03_2.jpg

P.S. Please email me @ tito@cgnetworks.com for the award .psd file

salud

[Fasty]

Just a question... what has happened to the award? why does it look melted?

[jchoi]

arghhhh!! I envy you.

Truly a fantastic animation piece you got there.

:thumbsup:

[Clienad]

You dont say much but when you do speak people listen.

congratulations on a job well done. :applause:

[funnydoodle]

is anyone kind enough to post the lyrics up? thanx

[Jimmy(Taiwan)]

I'm really want to say thank you so much
you let me see a great animation:thumbsup:

[fango]

doh darkvid, you speak english :rolleyes:

[b.Schulz]

Originally posted by Chewey
That's very nice work!

For some reason the character's expressions in some parts reminded me of Gollum! :eek:

I'd like to see a version without the somewhat annoying and boring music.

I agree with the gollum expressions.. ..disagree about the music. haha funny I thought the same thing about Gollum. NEways! Good job for only a months worth of work. :thumbsup:

[Markuss]

Wow! I love your style! Your characters are so nice and cute! And the colors and the mood is also extremely nice!

BTW! Did you use mocap for the animation on this one?

[Radacci]

i love this! :) lovley song as well, though i dont understand a word :surprised
happy little girl :rolleyes: kinda sad ending:cry:
big:applause: for you :)

[neversong]

hey, this is one of the best animations I've seen around here.

the story and the music are totally amazing.

man, I just love this one.

:rolleyes:

[DarkSun]

Man, I have liked everything! Animation, Rendering, Sotry, simply
GREAT JOB
:thumbsup: :applause:

[Lunatique]

Totally my cup of tea. Loved it. Seen nothing like it. Just lovely.:love:

[Pauldls]

l'animation est excellente :thumbsup:

my french is poor so I didn't catch very much of the lyrics yet the mood was present just the same. Congratulations on the Award, you deserved it.

[jcombe]

was dead this weekend

now it's good

thanks

[Knox]

You can count me as one more fan of your animation

tant de sensibilite dans un film 3D, c'est rare

bonne continuation

[matzo]

superb animation!
really nice turn over in the end!

[Mystifyurmind]

Awesome, justr phenomenal. I've come to realize a story... is top necessity! ^_^ Your story rocks. Good job guys/girls

[MooMonkey]

holy (*@#...
it's soooooooooo good!!
:applause: :applause: :applause:

[phoenix2k]

yay... love it!!!! :thumbsup:

[r2d3]

wonderfull animation and storyline
frontpagematerial for sure if you 'd ask me :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Abe]

This realy is though provoking,absolutly FIRST CLASS:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[cwispy]

beeeeeeeautiful =)

[bigbad]

That was so beautiful :cry:.

Love the grass. What tecnique was it done with?

[jinshu45]

very very nice !:thumbsup:

[t-toe]

i cannot believe you accomplished all of this in a month's time... i'm completely blown away. all of my little fx projects seem to take 6 months at a time. hehe.

--t.toe

[Bullseye]

Absolutely awesome

[Vedic-kings]

WOW That just awesome dude!

What software did you do this in?

Again gerat work :surprised :insane: :bowdown: :xtreme:

[nomad_girl]

Amazing-- this is probably the best piece i have seen on this site.

The story has such an edge to it as it juxtaposes the sterility and objective nature of the camera with the elegant portrayal of nature and life. This piece creates such a wonderful mood and commentary on the passage of time and how it is seen and experienced.

Great technical execution with different types of character and particles animation. Exquisite coloration and tone with that shader and lighting. Effective camera cuts and angles tell the story. Great touches like the shadow on the screen at the end and the cutout of the deer are just perfect, and the facial expression reveals the melancholic and poignant nature of the piece which is just beautiful.

i absolutely love it.

[Ollj]

Great work.

The environment atmosphere, timing to music, model behaviour, storyline and the fact that this is great "cartoon style" makes you forget about some tiny lacks of reality details.
The feet look oversized in some scenes.

I want lyrics. Prefered translated in english.
Whats that french Band' s Name?
There must be cutscenes, were are they?

Actually this movie made me sign in this forum as "3d Modeling newbie"

[malcolmvexxed]

C'est off the hook.. . or something. i forgot all my french from school

:buttrock:

[Kogepan]

Originally posted by Chewey
That's very nice work!

For some reason the character's expressions in some parts reminded me of Gollum! :eek:

I'd like to see a version without the somewhat annoying and boring music.

Use your mute button. :rolleyes:

[CroitiX]

I just had to reply for this one!

:eek: Thats wonderfull!!!
GREAT animation and a GREAT story!!!!!

[KV12supercharge]

Wow, It would be unfair for me to not post something about this... this is honestly one of the best CG toon clips I've seen! You really captured the little girl's sense of curiosity. Incredible! I’ve seen many amazing photorealistic looking CG characters… although I’m not too into toon shading style, but this looks great!

For those who don’t know that the song means, it was basically just rapping out the actions she was doing at the time.

This is absolutely going into my inspirational folder. I wish I can animate half as good.

:thumbsup:

[robcamp]

This is a wonderful video and 3d work.

My daughter , 7 years old, can't get enough of this video. She wants to watch it often.. and then she goes out in the yard and acts it out! Eh eh

[el gatto]

Hi,

the name of the band is Mickey 3D I found the lyrics in french, I had a hard time trying to translate :hmm: so here's the fisrt verse and chorus in a poor translation :hmm:

Breathe (respire)

Approach little one, listens to to me kid, I will tell you the story of human kind
in the beginning there was nothing
at the it beginning everything was fine
nature was doing fine by itself, without a path
then human kind arrived with big shoes kicking people in the face to be respected
one way roads he started to trace
once all the elements were controlled
in a blink of an eye, history was folded
feels like there is no tuning back
we even started polluting the desert

You have to breathe to stay alive, just saying it won’t do anything
You won’t die laughing, it's a big thing to say

Well' I guess you get the picture (stop polluting the planet) so I won't translate the hole song (don't have time for it) just look for it on the net, it's easy to find :) and use systran or ? to translate ;)


ciao

[hometime]

The joy of her experience is very sweet, but ends so sad.

[Blud_Stane]

i've watched this about 10 times.. its just engaging and beautiful, I feel such sadness for her its a great film that deserves an award!

:love:

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