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L'Enfant et l'Oie
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L'Enfant et l'Oie

In a remote countryside, a small child, fascinated by the sky, meets a goose in search of freedom, and flies away with it. Living a daydream, their journey turns sour when they find themselves stranded on the rooftops of a city. An animated tale about freedom and to find one’s place to blossom.

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A short animated tale by

Jade Chastan, Alice Failla, Justine Hermetz, Jérôme Ginesta, Sophie Lafleur, Vincent Lenne

An animated illustration book

From the very beginning we wanted our images in close connection with the story. The main concern was to develop the film as an animated illustration book with a simple story. The pre-production and Art Direction leaned towards this graphic aspect with a vibrant and contemplative feeling one can get from illustration.


As we had limited time and ressources, substancial research and development work was therefore necessary. Because the challenge was to recreate a 2D aspect on a 3D movie, we had to bypass what we knew of realistic rendering and find our own workflow in every domain.

The illusion of inaccuracy

A lot of our work focused on creating the illusion of inaccuracy. We put work on modelling every silhouette to mimic illustration’s clumsiness and match with stylised 3D lighting, to finally concentrate on contrasts and bind all of it together without losing the spectator’s focus on screen. Textures had to be simple but detailed, compositing had to be vibrant without being noisy, and animation had to look both rough and smooth to keep a 2D look.


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