Animation Alert! Salesman Pete and the Amazing Stone

Keep in mind the is made by some STUDENTS in France!!  It is un-be-liev-able!  The rigging and animation are exquisite, magnificent–astounding!!  I love the acting, vivid envornment, and the smart combination of 2D and 3D animation elements.  The design is all very well done.  I honestly haven’t been excited for an animation like this in years.

Check out the artist’s websites, especially E Sousa Vincent’s rigging reel.

This is truly inspirational stuff.  I need to go where they went for school.  I am working on a similar reel myself and I need to research how to make some of the faces as deformable as the ones for their animations.

I can’t wait to see what’s next!  Looks like another short called Meet Buck.

Their awesome website and blog:

http://www.salesmanbuck.com/

http://www.salesman-pete.blogspot.com/