More classic frothy Frenchy goodness — the natural stylistic progression of the super-flat Supinfocom style, a kind of madcap WPA/John K. meringue. A lot of good stuff in here regardless. I do wish they’d left off the English voiceover. Nifty making-of stuff including character sheets at their bloog. Good luck, kids…

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 [...]

An interesting mix of hi- and low-fi, combined appropriately, taking a few cues from anime: when the low-poly characters are moving minimally, they’re animated stop-motion style, at a low frame rate. This pushes the feel toward comic book, and keeps it from looking too home-video. When there’s lots of action, or high-resolution atmospheric effects, the [...]

It’s a bit long, and the voice work undercuts the already stiff acting and weakish plot, but the visuals carry the piece. The cel shading is used to make space for the stellar texture work, with fantastic layout and color design supporting the kind of balance of form and texture that you normally only see [...]

A whimsical if stiff ode to everybody’s favorite mock crab ingredient. By Supinfocom students Jean-Francois Leroux, Thibaud Floutier, Gerome Payen Kennedy, and Pierre-Alain Dubois. [Via Motionographer.]

From Supinfocom students Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali — HD here. I love these French student pieces, though they all seem to be variations on the same theme — quick festival-crowd-pleasers, with a plot arc like a daredevil’s ramp. I guess it’s difficult to do much else in 5 minutes, when you’re young, [...]

“Galactic Mail” was directed by Supinfocom alumni Douglas Lassance aka Asterokid and Jonathan Vuillemin aka Motraboy, two of the three who made Sigg Jones. Produced at The Mill London. Made in XSI, the look is the classic new-school French combination of global illumination, simple and prominent reflection maps, ray-traced shadows, and lots of smooth gradients, [...]

So far, the new 3D Clone Wars tv series looks to be just as engaging and well-acted as the prequels. Too bad. At least the character design is interesting…

“Sigg Jones” isn’t a commercial, French art students just like sneakers. Yes, it’s another French student piece, credited to Matthieu Bessudo, Douglas Lassance, and Jonathan Vuillemin of Supinfocom, and made in 3DS Max.

By Supinfocom students François-Xavier Goby, Edouard Jouret, and Matthieu Landour, in 2005. The title translates to “In Your Arms” and the design and direction are lovely. This is a tricky style of animation — dramatic and serious, using cartoon characters. The result is something quite like anime.

Brilliant — fantastic style, cleverly done, and the best use of cel shading I’ve ever seen. “Musicotherapie,” by Supinfocom students Amaël Isnard, Manuel Javelle, and Clément Picon, with music by Nicolas Baloche and Benjamin Fournier as Tambour Battant (“Rumbling Drum”, also the name of a French wartime broadcast). A cleaner Quicktime version and info in [...]