The animated chair from Amélia & Duarte on Vimeo.

We just made a chair exercise for people who are working with us that don’t have experience in animation, so they can have a quick visual aid to help them understand better the difference between real image and animated one.

Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.

The art of origami folding together with new technology. We can do a jumping frog and a shuriken star (ninja star), so beware…

MINI PLANNERS from Moleskine ® on Vimeo.

If you happen to buy a moleskin this year, you know now what you can do with it.

One of our producers told us about this museum when we went to France. I love this concept and so did other people: this museum has won the Kenneth Hudson Award at the European Museum of the Year Award in 2011. It basically works like this:

“The Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contributing to the Museum’s collection.”

So, if you have an object and you like the memories inside your head to go somewhere else, send to them.
Each object seems so particular to one person, but, at the same time, so universal that you just want to keep reading every single one of them.

I found this one very compelling and it’s the third object you see at the table.

“Man’s belt

Aug 2003 – May 2006, San Francisco, California, USA

The man of my dreams didn’t even exist in my dreams until I met him. Our physical passion ruled the relationship; he was a unique and spectacular lover.

This item may not be very exciting, but the circumstances by which it came to my possession… oh my! He called me in the middle of the night because he had something he wanted me to see. I drove over an hour to pick him up and we went to watch a meteor shower… from a playground. The second I parked the car he looked me dead in the eye and said “Follow me. Leave your clothes.” We spilled out of the car into the warm summer night, articles of clothing flying everywhere. Kinkiness on a park bench underneath a blazing sky, there was more on fire than just those shooting stars.

I found the belt on the backseat of my car days later. I am donating it as a token of thanks for all the moments he made me feel alive. A week after that night I moved away and saw him little after that. I never got the chance to tell him that I love him, but at least everyone who reads this will know.”

Do you see it differently now? It’s not a belt anymore, it never was and now we know.

Hope one of my next travels leads me to see it.

M.

http://brokenships.com/en

Love the art direction, love the narrative, love the ending, love the beginning within it.

M.

Here we are in the video of Richard Raskin’s masterclass and pitching! “…long lasting love affair with the short film”. We couldn’t agree more!

But since it was in 2011 that everything took a huge turn, here are the highlights:

-       Rehearsing our presentation while ridding bikes in Annecy.

-       Riding our bikes under pouring rain for our presentation in Annecy. Walking to the room with the sound of water inside our shoes, but having clean, dry clothes in our backpacks (what a feeling!)

-       Winning the prize for Call for Projects in Annecy’s animation festival.

-       Meeting with all the producers (and not understanding French).

-       Go to Lumière Brothers’ house in Lyon in our first official visit to France. Auspicious!

-       Seeing where “La sortie de l’usine” was filmed.

-       Going to Valence and everyone thought we were going to Valença or Valencia.

-       Masterclass with Richard Raskin and very good feedback.

-       Seeing a big rainbow in the sky after the pitching with Richard Raskin. A sign in colors?

-       Exchanging thoughts and creating.

-       Having a very good director as our possible godfather for the project (not in a Scorsese style).

-       Being able to work in warm slippers in wintertime. (Feels soooo good!)

And here they are. More to come soon!