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French digital arts school ARTFX has unveiled another short film from their class of 2022. Here is La Tielle Sétoise, a comedy blending 2D and 3D animation.
In Sète, in a small restaurant, Michelle the cook prepares a culinary contest. In the stress of the preparation, she has to deal with the betrayal of her delivery man Jacquie and the rebellion of her main ingredient. A chase starts in the kitchen.
This short film is directed by
Carla Borscia, Joris Bourgouin, Amish Jain, Thomas Kinowski, Lucy Mazars, Aurélien Pascal, Clara Roussel. They were helped by student specialists Benji Coignard, Florian Pardanaud.
The team behind this ARTFX animated short film also released a making-of video where they discuss some of their visual references ( The Mitchells vs the Machins, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Gumball, Hotel Transylvania, Arcane…). They also discuss the role played by editing/timing when creating a comedy short film, the challenges related to blending CG and 2D animation, modeling, texturing, as well as how they created the FX.
