A student piece from 2006 Supinfocom graduates Gregory Jennings, Maëlys Faget, and Kevin Franczuk. Featured at Siggraph 2007.

The 12-head-tall figures are a strange mix of imposing and ridiculous — with his giant mountain-climbing space suit the dude looks like the Moebius warrior-priest figures in 40 Days dans le Desért. Perhaps this is how adults look to children — the heads are so far away.

Normally I’d say this is two minutes too long, but something about the solid, crunchy weight of the father, the balance of his movement, and the plodding pace makes the piece compress temporally. Everything is precarious, teetering on the head of a pin. I also like the velvety render treatment — it would be too much in other circumstances, but we spend so much time on each shot that it’s clearly not meant to disguise anything. A number of delicate balances, carefully found.

As of this posting, Jennings is a lighter at Dreamworks, Faget is an artist at Ubisoft, and Franczuk is an animator at Xbox developer Hydravision.

By the way, Everest is 8848 m high. The figure is something of a touchstone in the mountaineering world.

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