The Les Gobelins Annecy 2013 Lineup - SeeSaw, The Fancy Family, Copernicus, Sawa

Continuing their yearly tradition of contributing signal shorts to the yearly Annecy International Animated film festival, this year was no different for the students at Les Gobelins animation school. As part of their curriculum, 5 teams contributed their own unique 30-50 second animated bumpers to the festival. We featured The Retake individally yesterday thanks to it's creators reaching out with their extensive making of, so here are the other 4 submitted to the festival this year.

A soft NSFW for stylized nudity in the See Saw and Sawa shorts. The short above was created by Marlène Beaube, Marion Bulot, Thibaud Gayral, Guitty Mojabi and Raphaëlle Stolz

The Retake

Created by a team of students over at the Les Gobelins academy in Paris, The Retake is a veritable painting in motion created as a bumper/ident for the Annecy 2013 animation festival. Despite being just under a minute, the short centers around a frustrated court artist and a King who can't see the beauty in front of him.

The entire video is a visualization of the freedom of experssion and personal pride, an issue typically brought up by artists dealing with clients aloof about the artistic process. The short was created by Maxime Delalande, Nadya Mira, Semiramis Mamata, Laurent Moing and Rayane Raji. Check out the making of the short after the break, going over the entire creation process, including some really cool shot breakdowns.

Les Gobelins Annecy 2012 Shorts

With an Irish theme set for this years Annecy international animated film festival (Which concluded on June 9th), the folks at the French animation school Les Gobelins set out to provide a series of shorts which play on both cultural and political aspects of the divided nation. While some of the shorts took a more tongue in cheek approach to the theme, some of the other shorts like 'The Line' (Above) and 'Matches' definitely touched on the turbulent past of Ireland, with an optimistic twist.

Check out the other 4 shorts: Holy Sheep, Hurley's Irish, Matches and Beyond the Sea after the break!