On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the European Parliament, we created a film to introduce viewers to the successive years and important events.

Beginning in 1952, we chronologically discover a sequence of specially selected 54 archive photographs, to which we have given a new life step by step. We intended to take the audience back in time and give them a sense of being witnesses to the particular situation.

These are no longer just photographs. We enter them, we explore these worlds and allow the viewers to immerse themselves in the story from past to present.

Weeks of preparation in the selection of photographic and video materials and months of extremely precise work, followed by the reconstruction of archive photographs, the separation of images into layers and their transfer into three-dimensional space in Blender, allowed us to achieve new and interesting effects, extensive, animated camera work and smooth, dynamic transitions between eras.

 
Welcome to a journey through time…

On Tuesday 22 November 2022, Parliament celebrated the historical and legislative achievements of the last 70 years with a special ceremony.

The film was officially premiered at the ceremony and can be viewed here:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20221114STO53904/70-years-of-the-european-parliament
 

 
 
 
CREDITS:

Client: European Parliament
Agency: FACTSTORY
Production: KAOS Films / Patrick Lauber
Direction: Yann Deval / REANIMATION
Graphic design, photo reconstruction and animation:
Yann Deval / REANIMATION
Barbara Mydlak / FLOATING LAB
Benoît Gréant / CARGO CULTE
Thomas Fage / REANIMATION
Editing & Color grading: Barbara Mydlak / FLOATING LAB
Sound Design: Guillaume Jacquart / RUSHING ELEPHANTS

2022

It was as Animation Supervisors that we worked on these movies for the promotion of “Erasmus+” exchanges programs : From Erasmus to Erasmus+: A story of 30 Years. It has been produced by Latcho Drom, directed by Gil Bauwens and illustrated by 13pulsions, Soba and Cartoonbase, for ICF Mostra agency.

The series has been rewarded by a Silver Dolphin at Cannes Corporate Media Awards.

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/news/erasmus-30th-anniversary-videos-win-award-cannes_en

“The Brand New testament” is the latest long feature film by belgian director Jaco Van Dormael.

God lives in an apartment in Brussels which he shares with his meek wife and his 10-year-old daughter Ea, to whom he is emotionally and physically abusive. She decides to rebel against her father. She steals the key to His office, accesses the scheduled dates of death of every human in the world and releases the information to them via their portable telephones.

It is to create and animate those 6 billions messages that VFX supervisor Emilien Lazaron called us.

It was an honour, as fan of Jaco’s movies, to get on board and create those messages that had some important narrative role !

Messages and countdowns design, animation and compositing by REANIMATION
VFX : Digital Graphics

LES ORIGINES DE FONTEVRAUD est un court-métrage animé commandé par l’abbaye de Fontevraud (France).
Le film est projeté dans l’abbaye, comme introduction à la visite de la crypte de l’église.

Pour voir le court-métrage, c’est ici : 

La talentueuse Eve Deroeck s’est occupée de l’animation et de la réalisation, et nous a confié la supervision sonore et musicale du projet.

LES ORIGINES DE FONTEVRAUD est le premier projet entièrement créé/interprété/enregistré/mixé au studio musical de REANIMATION, par Yann Deval, Balir Ben Amor et JP Dassonville.

La composition musicale a été étroitement liée à l’animation du film, l’une influençant l’autre…
Le premier jet musical a été conçu sur l’animatic du film, puis Eve a animé chaque plan en collant au plus proche de cette maquette musicale.
Enfin, nous avons réalisés les enregistrements finaux des instruments sur le montage définitif.

Nous avons essayé d’éviter les clichés autour de l’abbaye (chants grégoriens), cherchant plutôt à accentuer l’aspect ludique de l’animation par l’utilisation d’instruments décalés (scie musicale, accordéon, percussions…).

La composition est construite autour de trois voix de cors qui s’enchevêtrent pour donner un ton épique à la construction de l’abbaye.

Tous les instruments ont été joués sur des instruments acoustiques par des musiciens :
scie musicale, glockenspiele, cors, buk, castagnes, rattle, vibraslap et percussions diverses, basse électrique, guitare classique, accordéon… (à l’exception du grand-orgue et des marimbas, joués via des plugins VST).

Director/Animation: Eve Deroeck
Music/Sound: Yann Deval, Balir Ben Amor, JP Dassonville
Mastering: Miloud Sassi
Production: Abbaye de Fontevraud
Year: 2016

The R // videos are a testing ground for experimentations of new techniques (and ancient too),
following a constraint or theme.
This time, we had to deal with two constraints: the theme « Speechless », and a single day of production. Enjoy!
Animation, design & music by REANIMATION

The R // videos are signed by each of the reanimators independently.
They’re a testing ground for experimentations of new techniques (and ancient too),
following a constraint or theme.

This time, we had to deal with three constraints: using the MIDI data contained in the music file, a « cadavre exquis » process between the four reanimateurs, and a single day of production. Enjoy!
Animation, design & music by REANIMATION.

The R // videos are signed by each of the reanimators independently.
They’re a testing ground for experimentations of new techniques (and ancient too),
with only one constraint or theme.

This time, we had to deal with two constraints: the (De)structured Landscapes theme, and a single day of production. Enjoy!

This summer, our opening title sequence for France televisions’ Hôtel de la plage was aired.
For this work, we originaly created an animated version of Hendrick Rolandez’s Magna Typeface.

Unfortunately, we had to remove it from the final version of the sequence, but you know…

…this was a looooot of work and… … well you know…

… we love to share stuff !

So here it is, all cute, all animated, all free !

Download the Kit !

If you need to animate a wing. A pigeon wing for instance. Maybe you’re animating a movie with two pigeon lovers hugging each other. Who knows…

Well if you ever need to do that, we have tought about you! And we give away, freely as usual, a beautiful pigeon wing rig!

All prepared for Adobe After Effects CS6 and CC, it can be animated, feather by feather, in 2.5D space, with only 4 controllers !

Download the Kit !

We wanted to do a Behind the Scenes to go along with our Modern Love video, showing some of the steps we went through making our collage.
From animatic to shooting to draft to the final composition!

Enjoy!

Persifleur // Interactive Music Video

The idea of this interactive video came up in december 2011, based on a very simple concept : let the user “draw the music”.

Since then and until the public release of the video innovember 2013, there has been many steps:

- Creating the typographies:
every single word in the song is hand drawn (using ink, brushes, or pen).

- Then we scanned the words, and animated them using After Effects,
following the intonations of the voice and instruments.

- Last but not least, the programming.
The animations are injected into the program, so that it reacts to the user’s actions.

The video was developped in Java using Processing.
The source code is available here.

It was built into a Web App thanks to ProcessingJs added to HTML5 / CSS / Javascript / PHP.

More infos to come…

Reanimator Thomas presents a side project with painter Thomas Ivernel :
« Hypnotized » animation sequence, rotoscoping made out of 950 paintings on paper !
More infos here.

After a week of learning Pure Data at the Imal, Boris came up with this…. thing.

« It was a beautiful sunny week though!

I’d like to keep working on this, mainly on the sound part.
But also maybe to get something more random and more organic in the image.
And maybe some day make an app out of it! »

THE BRIEF

DELANTE TV got in contact with REANIMATION early in the project (during the writing of the season1) for the design of the opening credits.

The brief was simple : we had to create a 40s sequence which sets up the series’ universe:

• the city of Paris
• modern investigation techniques
• introducing the detectives family

The general mood had to evoke the fresh, light and modern feel of the series…

This work came in continuity to a first collaboration between DELANTE and REANIMATION on the feature film MOI MICHEL G (released in 2011).

Yesterday was the airing of the documentary “Philippe Geluck, l’échappé belge”. A biography of belgian cartoonist Philippe Geluck.

The briefing was pretty clear : “old paper texture and a typewriter writing on it”.

Pushing things further, we decided to write down a whole alphabet with an old 1920 Continental typewriter we had, and use it as our font. Looking organic, looking dirty, just as we like it!

Now that the movie is out, we wanted to give away this material, for free, for others to use it. So here it is, a new KIT DE REANIMATION, with the scanned Continental alphabet, as well as some sound recordings of the machine!

Download the Kit!

A text preset. Comes with an .aep project for you to check out.

The idea is to have a text layer only with “g” in the “Webdings” font, to make the rotating squares.
In the example, to get this rectangle shape, I scaled the font 129% vertically and 70% horizontally.
And I pushed the tracking to 100..

And another layer, with a monospaced font. Then, you have to play with the characters size, scale and tracking to put each of them in the center of the squares.

In the example, I took the OCR font, with the same size as my webding font. I pushed the tracking to 50 but left both horizontal and vertical scaling to 100%.

You do the same animation on both layers, et voilà!
(Just be carefull that you need to have the same amount of letters on the square layer and the text layer, so just fill the blanks with spaces…)

Last thing I did in the example is to offset the “OCR” text anchor point, so my text is in front of the square shapes when they turn.

Download the Kit!

A free text preset to bug the place down!

Download the Kit!

To This Day is a project based on a spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan called “To This Day”, to further explore the profound and lasting impact that bullying can have on an individual.

To This Day project asked animators and motion artists to pitch in to animate the spoken word poem.
We wanted to be part of this adventure, and submitted our vision : a child telling his story through his drawings.
Here you can see our 20 second part :

And Here is the full length spoken word poem!

“Schools and families are in desperate need of proper tools to confront this problem. We can give them a starting point… A message that will have a far reaching and long lasting effect in confronting bullying.
Animators and motion artists brought their unique styles to 20 second segments that will thread into one fluid voice.
This collaborative volunteer effort demonstrates what a community of caring individuals are capable of when they come together.”