L'Enfant de la Haute Mer

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:10 am

one of the most beautiful shorts i have seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2PwRox_0iw

ingie01 · Post by **ingie01** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:07 pm

This is beautiful. The attention to detail, the lighting effects! Where can one get the full version ( this is a short, correct?)
Of course the usual question, can it be done in AnimeStudioPro?

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:08 pm

This was one of the shorts featured at SIGGRAPH 2001. You can download a high resolution copy here:

http://www.archive.org/details/LENFANTD2001

And here is the rest of the Internet Archive collection from SIGGRAPH:

http://www.archive.org/details/siggraph

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:42 pm

really really thank you!

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:22 am

This is very beautiful. I love the look.

I have a question though...

I have seen several animated shorts from completely different sources that feature a young girl or women all alone in a quaint small village. They wander around and there are no other people.

I don't speak French... where is everybody? Aren't there child services in these animated worlds?

Are these spontaneously generated plots due to the difficulties involved in creating characters? Does "laziness" dictate story now? (no offense. It does for me and that's a fact.)

I thought this had the most beautiful style. Like a water color painting brought to life, but I am getting a bit bored with the "Girl alone in a village" plot.

-vern

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:34 am

She doesn't say anything about where all the people are. She just talks about her daily routine, and wishes for rain. Then, after the boat passes, she says she thought she heard something, but it was just the sound of the ocean. I don't pretend to understand the possible meaning of her isolation, but it's a pretty short.

rylleman · Post by **rylleman** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:58 pm

At first it looked very promising with those beautiful opening shots of the sea and the town. Then the girl were presented and the whole movie died for me.
She was so crude animated!, ugly, I didn't care what she did or what would happen to her anymore.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:46 pm

ingie01 wrote:Of course the usual question, can it be done in AnimeStudioPro?

no, it can't, i has a lot of lighting, shadows and shading effects which were made with some 3d software. the obj importation which have AS is very limited and you would need a lot of masks and a lot of work (and creativity) to get something similar.

i agree with rylleman, the girl movements are ugly, i suppose they have a great art director but not much talented animators.

uf, heyvern, i think you are right too (

today you all are right). i can bet the loneliness of the girl is because the art concept and by laziness (which born before than the art concept).
all i know is that this short is based in a tale wrote by Jules Supervielle.

http://www.cafe-eveil.org/forum/ftopic66.html wrote:In this tale, Supervielle tells the tragic existence of a small girl captive of a city, walled between the world of alive and that of deaths, between the ground and the ocean. The child crosses the single street endesly however liquidates small city built in the High Atlantic, above a pit of six thousand meters. Hopelessly only, it vainly tries to awake the hearts of this city-phantom, to advance the needles of the clock of time, fixed, motionless. It tries in a last start to drown in the sea to join the eternity of deaths. But the wave, impotent, rejects it in its immutable world, suspended between two universes to which it will never have again access.