Hi everyone!
Descendants is a 14 minute animated short about the wish of attaining the unattainable
and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil.
The two main characters are flowers (voiced by [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000155/) and [Christy Scott Cashman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778769/))
who grow on the edge of a clearing next to one another. One is old and jaded by a
mysterious history - the other one still young, vivid and curious.
Destiny has brought these two together and it seems as if they would exist without possibility
for change, until one day a visitor to the clearing brings something unexpected to their lives.
[img]http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/descendants_00.jpg[/img]
vimeo HD
[[b]http://vimeo.com/8642276[/b]](http://vimeo.com/8642276)
[b]Core Team:[/b]
[Heiko van der Scherm](http://www.vanderscherm.com): Writer, Director, Design, Modelling
[Bernhard Haux](http://www.characteranimator.com): Character TD flower main actors
[Goro Fujita](http://chapter-56.blogspot.com/): Supervising Animator
[Felix Graf](http://www.normalart.de): Animator
[Holger Schönberger](http://www.binaryalchemy.de): Pipeline, Shading, Lighting, Compositing
[b]Length:[/b] 14 minutes
[b]Format: [/b] HD, 2:35/1
[b]Production:[/b] Time Frame: (First script to final film) 3 Years
[b]Work time:[/b] Full time, 6 days a week ,1.5 Years per core person
For more information:
[www.descendants-the-movie.com](http://www.descendants-the-movie.com)
We are very happy that Descendants won several international short film awards such as
grand prize of the tokyo anime award
wiesbaden filme im schloss "audience award"
sicaf korea "jury special award"
san francisco "best animation award"
pisaf "jury animation award"
passau "best short" award
mundos digitales "jury award"
e-magicians france "best of 2008"
pulcinella award "best european production"
asolo "best production" award
animex animation award
animago award "best character"
We are thinking of writing an making of, so stay tuned..
Hope you like it!
Here are some stills of the film
[img]http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/descendants_01.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/descendants_02.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/descendants_03.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/descendants_04.jpg[/img]