Antoine Antin -- Papillion

[lemec]

A fantastic piece of animation... I have no idea what software was used.

http://www.aantin.com/films/lepapillon.php

[evar]

Very cool indeed. My best guess would be Living-Cels as software, but that never made it out of beta.... then Creature House was bought by Micorsoft, and Expression is now a part of the Acrylic suite and the Vista OS - so it never materialized into a commercial software package.

[ZigOtto]

A fantastic piece of animation... I have no idea what software was used.

http://www.aantin.com/films/lepapillon.php

yeah, very good animated piece! and you shouldn't be surprised to learn that it was made full-traditionally, hand-drawn animated on paper, inked with real brush and real china-ink on real paper, BGs painted on real aquarel-paper, then all the material scanned, and only the color for the characters and the compositing were made by computer. (from the best source, Antoine Antin the aulthor himself)
here again, the talent and ability of the master's hands are the only secret for such a quality!

[Yojimbo]

This is incredible! please tell me this artist has his own series or something because of this!

[ZigOtto]

for you guys who have appreciared Antoine Antin's work in "Papillon",
here's one of his last animation, a sort of amazing colorised linetest!...
http://www.aantin.com/videos/videos/aAn ... bre480.mov
... and guess whether he have rotoscoped his girl-friend, or not ?

ps: if you fail to play properly in firefox, try it in IE

[Yojimbo]

My GOODNESS! This is incredible work. I want to see a feature done like this right now.

[lemec]

Ha! Classic stuff!!

[cresshead]

nice work!

i need some roto actors as nice as that too

[oliveuk]

actually I am very interested to know if this has been rotoscoped or not. There are 2 little details that only Rotoscoping or a great animator with an amazing eye for detail would be able to put in.


Olive

[aAntin]

Hi everyone !

thank you for your comments

about the girl animation, there is no rotoscope but I have to admit that I asked my girlfriend to stand in front of me so I can draw some sketches to set a rough layout... it is so hard to draw with such wide angles...

[Patrice]

Hi aAntin,
Thank you for your personal comments!

[ZigOtto]

hi Antoine, and welcome here!

I would be curious to know how many times it took to you for such a piece of anim,
(talking about the "Chambre" video), I mean what's the execution times division
between the rough keys, the inbetweens, the cleans ?

anyway, keep up the good work.

[Peter Wassink]

Hello Antoine,

Finally you resolved all our speculation about whether the girl animation was rotoscoped or not.
(believe it or not it but there was quite a lot of discussions here in Holland among colleagues about this).
Now we know, but frankly it doesn't make too much difference to me, it simply is a stunning piece and not just because of your girlfriend.

Welcome here!

[aAntin]

ZigOtto, if I remember correctly, I spent about a month working on it every afternoon... About half an hour for the very first rough, one week for the animation and then, three weeks for drawing tie-down... this is so long !!!

Tantalus, this is not the first time that people discuss about roto or not. I know that I've drawn a realistic animation, maybe too much, but that is what I wanted to do... drawing feminine curves is always a pleasure for some of us

[ZigOtto]

... this is so long !!!

not so much for such a quality!