[kanex]

Hello !

We (i and my teammates) have finished our SchoolProject : Indigen

You can watch the movie on its website :
http://indigen.free.fr

Sorry it's french, but it's not too hard to understand

Here are a few still images to tease you :





Hope you'll like it !!!

[agent44]

you crazy french guys!
I about died laughing at the elephant part.

[FuzzBeast]

Wow dude, that is simply amazing! Don't know what else to say.

[Awetopsy]

ok...

Spy vs Spy meets The Gods must be Crazy

a little on the sick side.... ok alot on the sick side.. but very well done.

[jayceeL]

I would have preferred it without the "over the top" violence, but thats just me.

Amazing visuals though!!!

JayCeeL

[ternary_star]

BRILLIANT modeling. for the most part, beautiful animation. it's a shame all this amazing talent was wasted on such an asinine "plot".

[sparth]

rofl!!
now it's weird and violent, but heck it's fun!
i really like that last atomic bomb making that "spoof" sound.
makes me think about antipuce2000, done two years ago. you sumpinfocom weirdos!

hilarant!

[Sukhoi]

I think that that the film is very well executed in general. Especially the effects, fire, explosions and rendering is really good.

However it seems that the story got a little lost in the midst of all your visual goals, but that doesn't nessecarily mean that the project is worth less for you. I know.

For the most part great editing also, however sometimes it feels a little unplanned. I can't really specify, it's more of a feeling

BTW, I've rescently gotten this sort of critiscism on a visual film project and it's a pain in the a**. But often people will point out the weak story, instead of recognizing the excellent visuals. And here I do the same with you, because I simply feel that way about it, realizing that the bastards critizising me where right! Therefore you shouldn't get away with it either!!

No seroiusly:
Hard critique for those who have done a great job, to force them to work EVEN harder (that's you guys )

Good job!!

Sukhoi

[ July 03, 2002: Message edited by: Sukhoi ]

[gArGOyLe^]

hahaha woaw that is awesome!

very funny too

and the quality is amazing..

great work people

[[666]Flat]

hehe, good work... I think I would never have the patience and perstistence to do such an entirely animated movie, even if I was willing to learn the techniques. I bet you spent a huge amount of time on that. consider spending more time on the script in the future, it's always a shame to see g00d visualz gettin' wasted in banal plots. That's like a movie with damn good actors based on a fucked up movie script - it almost never really works.

[ July 03, 2002: Message edited by: [666]Flat ]

[BloodStone]

His hand magically reattached itself! This movie is bizarre!

[Sumaleth]

I went to the International Computer Animation Festival last week and this one is actually better than 95% of what I saw there.

But the impression I've got of the animated-short-films industry is that animations don't really understand story. So many of them are based around "weird" or "crazy" or "funny" things without any real consideration for proper storytelling.

One of the few exceptions at the festival was actually something our very own Brian Prince (Balistic) worked on called 'Show And Tell'. (I freaked out when I saw his name up there)

So many of them had no story, or stories that really made no sense at all, or were based on really simple story concepts.

Indigen fits into that last category, but at least it's highly entertaining and very well done. (we'll ignore the obvious Ice Age teaser influences )

But I think story should always come first and foremost, even if it's "just" an exercise in animation.

[ceenda]

Neat.

Maya or Max?

[ July 03, 2002: Message edited by: ceenda ]

[m@b]

Max 4.2

[balistic]

quote:

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Originally posted by Sumaleth:
One of the few exceptions at the festival was actually something our very own Brian Prince (Balistic) worked on called 'Show And Tell'. (I freaked out when I saw his name up there)

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Wait, what?! Show and Tell . . . Show and Tell . . . I don't remember working on anything called that . . . do you have any more info on it? That's . . . weird.

[Sumaleth]

Whoops, I may have misread the credits. :}

This is the only article I could find about it;
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/30/1019441363023.html

I remember preview pictures from it being posted here at Sijun aaages ago, and I see there's someone with the name Darren Price involved so chances are my brain put two and two together and got five.

Or maybe you were mentioned in the "Thanks" credits. I don't know now. :}

[Lunatique]

Heheh. I watched Indigen yesterday and I laughed a few times out loud. This is one of the better 3D animated shorts I've seen lately.

The excessive flesh wounds, noticeably a lot more realistic than the cartoony characters, is more of a discomfort than effective visual punchlines. I think if the flesh wounds were a bit more cartoony, it would've blended in better.

And as far story goes, Sumaleth is so right. Most animators and artists are not writers or creators. Artistic skill does not = writing/storytelling skills. Animating characters doing funny/weird/clever things is not the same as having a real story, and having a plot still doesn't mean it's a worthwhile story.

But, if every animator/artist could be great writers/creators too, then guys like Spielberg, Cameron, Lucas..etc wouldn't be all that special then. And their production studios would have empty seats. . ..

[gawain]

Something between Tom&Jerry and Quentin Tarantino.
ROTFL!
G.

[m@b]

more like Itchy & Scratchy show

[roundeye]

i disagree with luna, i think the realistic violence works really well with all the cartoony crap. its half the point. plus, cartoony violence is gay.

[10a]

hilarious....very funny and good stuff

[Lolion]

The last scene... whoah man, that's really when I cracked.
Hilarious.

[DarkVVulf]

Great quality in the animation. I personally love the gore as I would watch an actual Itchy and Scratchy show if it existed.

I wasn't impressed with the voice acting, but nontheless I enjoyed it.

[n8]

sounds great..im getting it right now..but .. "gods must be crazy" ...damn..havent heard about that in a long time..i think ill go dig it out to watch again some time..heehehhe

[dARCKLOWN]

Ohh man that was awsome! hahah great work so detailed as well.

[Eorand]

Nice job, it takes ages to make this kind of quality work on models and animation. Music track works also pretty well but that whatever creture shound irritating. HIp....hi.hi.hi....HIP.....hi...heee?...HOOO!...hi..hiiii....HIP...

[radical travis]

some of the purtiest 3d ive seen in awhile. an enjoyable short, i don't expect a plot, zanyness is it's own theme, ain't you people ever watch a cartoon?