French Animation Film Festival Conference
How many of you are interested in French animation and films? Or even their beautiful (yet difficult-to-learn) French language? I do!
A few weeks back, I went to this year’s French Animation Film Festival Conference at Alliance Française de Singapour with my classmates.
The conference was divided into two parts, first the films, then the animations.
I personally prefer the second part because of all the fun and engaging animation shorts to watch!
For those who don’t know much about French animation but are interested to know more, I suggest you to search the shorts done by students of Gobelins (Full name: l’Ecolede l’image des Gobelins) on youtube or simply click here.
Did you know the French made a 3D animation of Mickey Mouse Christmas Special? Here’s the video if you wanna watch:
There was an exhibition for the outstanding shorts done by students of Gobelins at the second floor so during the interval between the 2 parts of the conference, we walked around to look at the different animation boards; color boards; character designs and et cetra. Pretty interesting and it really looks more professional than average student’s standard (duh~ Some are award-winning animation!).
One thing I noticed about is their style in drawing, the French does not seem to like soft edges (great line flow, but mostly straight cuts) nor straight buildings (they are always slanted and pointy). Isn’t it unique? The Americans love curves and the Japanese loves big anime eyes and the French loves lines. Hahaha.
The Oscar 2009 nominee – Oktapodi was produced by students of Gobelins too!
Here’s a few more interesting French animations!
La Maison en Petits Cubes (winner of Oscar 2009)
Even though it was produced in France, it was actually made by a group of Japanese. Interesting huh?
Haha. But none the less, it feels French and that’s all it takes.
I can’t seem to find more animations from Cube on youtube, but if you do, let me know ok? I really love their animation style! 
Last but not least, did you know Mac Guff made the popular and cute featured animations, “Despicable Me“ and “The Lorax“? THEY ARE SO ADORABLE!!!! The characters, I mean. Hahahaha. <3
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I JUST LOVE THE MINIONS! Oh oh oh, I shall end this post with this instead:
Carrots VS. Free Will
Movie: Rio (2011)
An enjoyable movie but not the most terrific or classic featured animation film in the industry and I almost thought that Rio is a Madagascar-replica when I watch the opening sequence. There is a lot more of the cliche scenes than expected and yet it was really fun to watch.
The story revolves around the last male and female of their species – Spix Macaw, Blu and Jewel. One nerdy domestic pet that does not know how to fly and only wants to be comfortably reading his books; drinking his hot chocolate with marshmallows at his owner’s place and the other craving for freedom so badly even though she is constantly being trapped in cages because of evil smugglers.
Interesting contrast but a little too predictable, I practically know the ending when the Brazilian nerd, Túlio, came to Linda‘s (Blu‘s owner) store. It gets depressing for me whenever my prediction is right and I get bored somehow.
Nevertheless, I guess it is still a nice featured animation film with extremely colorful setups and rendering despite its awkward genre of being a children-type-of-show or adult-kind-of-animation. You see… Will children even get it when Túlio wants Blu and Jewel to mate? A tad too awkward in the cinemas when most of the seats in the theatre were occupied by kids.
LOL. Come to think of it, it’s really funny how parents never really filter the kind of animations that is suitable for their kids. But then again, most animated featured films ain’t made for kids. People just ASSUME they are for kids. Yeah right. /sarcasm explodes
Anyway, check out my super cute RIO water bottle that bf bought for me with the popcorn combo. MWHAHAHA!
I am a happy girl!
Best of Toy Stories
Firstly, thanks Nuffnang for inviting me to the Gala Premiere of Toy Story 3 at The Cathay Cineplex and I enjoyed myself to bits! The movie is great! Pixar’s featured animations are always up to standard and of course, spice up with some emotions with touching moments. 
THE MOVIE IS GREAT! & I like the short animated film “Day & Night” by Pixar that was screened before the movie, go check it out. Anyway, I absolutely love the way they really really really stay true to the original and the usual humorous “parody” scenes. If you guys remembered, there were some parody scenes (“Jurassic Park” & “Star Wars) in Toy Story 2…
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Happenings
It’s kind of energy-draining these few days when so much is happening, though I felt lucky that I finally make some time to meet up with my loved ones to have some chitchats and catching up. (:
I hope Ari is feeling better by now. We were supposed to be having dinner with Mia the other day and we had some spare time to go for pedicure for her feet and in the end, mishaps happened. Can you even believe it? That unprofessional staff (#05-28 at Far East Plaza) of the store actually burned her feet with hot water which makes her whole surface of her skin to peel off and the way they treated the problem is applying some unknown medicine on her injured foot and ask her to go to the Dental/Veterinary clinic right in the same building for consultations. I was quite shocked and in a lost of what to do until Mia & Ari’s sis came and settle the legal issues then send her to A&E, which is supposed to be Accident & Emergency department and they practically took less than 5 minutes to ask her some questions and 30 minutes to get a doctor to look at the injuries (second degree burnt, it’s damn crazy!) and then another 15 minutes to get bandaged. I wonder if this department should be even called Accident & “Emergency”. Anyway, for all ladies out there or those who have babies, please test the water temperature before putting any living creatures into it. It’s not a joke.
Other than that, I just got accepted into a local animation school to build up my portfolio for the next 2 years in commencement on 31st August. Despite the insecure feeling of studying there due to personal reasons, I sincerely wish that my skills will be honed and I will be able to work on something that I like.
I am also looking forward to getting into part time courses in web design and studio photography in other schools too, since I have gotten a freelance project to make logo animation and most likely web design projects & photography projects after enhancing my skills and knowledge (it would be best if there’s a sponsor for me to learn all these). This is super exciting whenever I think of it and I no longer feel lost.
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