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French animation & VFX school ARTFX unveiled Quit Smoking. This thesis short film is directed by Apolline Bruere-Dawson, Manon Cavailles, Jean-Baptiste Demouge, Marie Jaselme, Sandra Pereira, Rohit Suryavanshi, with the help of Loïc Mattern (student specialist).
Rebecca, a young woman of 20, is looking for the best way to drive her parents crazy, who have left her alone again in their big villa. As she starts to break everything in the house, Rebecca comes face to face with Elias, a 16 year old boy, who has just fallen into her pool with his bike and a very strange bag.
The team explain that they were inspired by the art of Alberto Mielgo (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Love, Death and Robots, The Windshield Wiper) as well as the paintings of British artist David Hockney. As a result, the short film features stylized backgrounds, props and FX (a lot of work was put into the creation of the swimming pool).
The team used the following software: Maya, V-ray, Zbrush, Nuke, Xgen, Houdini, Photoshop, Davinci Resolve, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Anim Bot, KeyFrame Pro, Mash, Procreate.
