I have called this my favorite animation of all time for over a decade. I have such love for this piece and have shared it with all those I respect. It is brilliant in concept and the execution is beyond humbling as a fellow animator. My soul buzzes with each viewing, I return once a blue moon with fresh eyes and they have yet to be disappointed.
Translation Part3: Immobility and handicap, tend to make you slowly realize and accept that there's a certain number of things you can't do. But on the other hand, I also believe that it allows you to open to other possibilities, like internal freedom, internal space but also your encounter with other people. I think that in the handicap and this illness, there is actually a big potential.
There's something about the big burst of energy when the dancing begins that feels so visceral to me. I just inexplicably feel the urge to move right now; it's magic the way a body can be prompted to speak to you.
The piece is superb... with the power of animation alone he's given us the truth that our minds can go beyond our own physical forms and expand further through thought, even to the point of shapes and colors. this is so touching it destroys you. his father is proud wherever he is
I have been trying to find this video again for some time. I had completely forgotten what it was called or who made it. I thought about it often, when I was hanging up laundry outside. It was nice to find again, and a cried a bit. It's very beautiful.
Translation Part1: I think that it's through movement that we can take over our own life, it's through the freedom of coming and going, having gestures, gestures of love, tenderness, anger. When you are deprived of movement, like I am, like many other people are, I think that if we want to survive, we need to re-invent movement some other ways. What's going on in my head is not purely cerebral, it's not purely intellectual, it's a way to recreate an internal space which is my freedom.
Translation Part2: When you have a severe handicap, when you live totally immobile and dependent, you live something that you can't share. Something you can't easily express, something you can't easily talk about. When 2 people are talking, in order to understand each other, they need mutual experiences between them. They need to talk about something for which they each have some form of experience.
Tout simplement génial!Ca fait du bien de voir de l' animation comme ça, c'est vrai que ça ressemble à du studio 4°c et j'en suis ravi d'ailleurs. Merci et bravo à Mathieu Merci catsuka pour le lien!
Human beings are extremely resourceful, in their desires, their energy, internal forces and those are thinga we may discover with more urgency, with more forces when we are deprived of movement.
i was speaking about frames per second, for example one second is always one second no matter if its on 12 fps or 24 fps, if you have lot of things going in short fragment of time you do everything on ones (24 fps) on contrary if you have slow action you can do it on twos without doing inbetweens Normal spacing is on twos and far spacing is on ones.
WOW!! simply brilliant animation. is it just me or the first animations and the sound effects with the different people moving attached to the strings resemble the computer game broken sword?? did the guy who made this had something to do with the game? 5 stars video!!
Salut, Matthieu, ça fait une sacrée paie, dis donc. Bin que dire qui n'a pas été dit? Magnifique hommage ! Le moins que je puisse dire, c'est que toi et Seb, vous en avez choppé du level up depuis la Cambre. En fait, j'ai pas du tout reconnu ta manière d'animer tellement elle s'est décomplexée depuis... Encore un grand bravo, t'es arrivé à un niveau que je sais d'ores et déjà que je n'atteindrais jamais en anime, aussi restes-y bien, et continue de l'avant, t'as l'air d'être lancé, là. JJ
Mathieu, ton film est superbe ! Vraiment, quel talent ! Félicitations, tu m'as mis ma claque de la journée. De la semaine... de l'année ! (2007 compris!) Je m'en vais faire un peu de magie noire parce qu'à la force du crayon j'y arriverai jamais moi ;) J'espère que tu en prépares de nombreux autres.. Benoît G.
You'r close but its not right. a second in a film is 24 fps but in animation is 12, each one is duplicated. But i know, Its a LOT of them and this short is awesome, and not only for the time spent to made it ;)
vraiment impressionnant! Très bel hommage et un bon soutient à tout ceux qui souffrent d'un handicap... Avec quel logiciel vous avez travailler pour le montage?
I'm very interested in the process of the animation here. It's obviously 24fps AT LEAST, I wonder if the artist went higher than that. Also: He obviously created an animation guide, but did he use refrence for every single one of the characters? Must be over 2K unique characters, assuming it was "just" 24fps...
Hello Rachel, the animation is a 25 fps and was made, in 2007-2008, with light table, paper and pencil. The movement, was created by the animators with drawing roughs. After that, the animators and the assistants created, with their imagination, every different character for every 2 images. A particular attention was made in the graphic relation between them (size, clothes) who had to be in a continuous movement. Bye !
If there wass anything out there that makes me feel like a lazy animator....it's this
lol
Coming from this man, this hurts me more
I have called this my favorite animation of all time for over a decade. I have such love for this piece and have shared it with all those I respect. It is brilliant in concept and the execution is beyond humbling as a fellow animator. My soul buzzes with each viewing, I return once a blue moon with fresh eyes and they have yet to be disappointed.
He is basically talking about how when you're handicapped you are deprived of physical movement, so you have to develop your own "inner" movement.
Translation Part3:
Immobility and handicap, tend to make you slowly realize and accept that there's a certain number of things you can't do. But on the other hand, I also believe that it allows you to open to other possibilities, like internal freedom, internal space but also your encounter with other people. I think that in the handicap and this illness, there is actually a big potential.
There's something about the big burst of energy when the dancing begins that feels so visceral to me. I just inexplicably feel the urge to move right now; it's magic the way a body can be prompted to speak to you.
why is this short-movie so amazing ? because he did it with his soul, with his heart.
the animation is as powerful as the message.
Robert Thompson brought me here.
I'm very glad he did
Same for me!
The piece is superb...
with the power of animation alone he's given us the truth that our minds can go beyond our own physical forms and expand further through thought, even to the point of shapes and colors. this is so touching it destroys you. his father is proud wherever he is
I have been trying to find this video again for some time. I had completely forgotten what it was called or who made it. I thought about it often, when I was hanging up laundry outside. It was nice to find again, and a cried a bit. It's very beautiful.
I frequently think about this short and I never can remeber its name or its creator name :O
Translation Part1:
I think that it's through movement that we can take over our own life, it's through the freedom of coming and going, having gestures, gestures of love, tenderness, anger. When you are deprived of movement, like I am, like many other people are, I think that if we want to survive, we need to re-invent movement some other ways. What's going on in my head is not purely cerebral, it's not purely intellectual, it's a way to recreate an internal space which is my freedom.
that might just be one of the coolest animated pieces ive ever seen. well done le french dude.
Translation Part2:
When you have a severe handicap, when you live totally immobile and dependent, you live something that you can't share. Something you can't easily express, something you can't easily talk about. When 2 people are talking, in order to understand each other, they need mutual experiences between them. They need to talk about something for which they each have some form of experience.
this might be the most beautiful animation i have ever seen in my life
Mathieu Labaye you are a genius. simple, yet original idea, that emotionally and visually packs a punch!
Superb. Amazing piece of artwork.
Take THAT Pixar and Disney!
Hand drawn 2D animation will NEVER lose its appeal
Wow, you really have to frame by frame through this one to savour the juices. Art.
La plus agréable claque qu'il m'ait été donné de recevoir. C'est beau. Vraiment.
thats the best thing ive seen.so technically simple but such an optical expierience
Super beau film Mathieu.
Et bel hommage aussi.
:)
Olivier D,
Bravo!! l'anim est superbe!! J'Adore!! Ça donne le goût d'animer et en plus de danser!!
The most beutiful piece of animation I've seen to date... I'm speachless.
Love love love love this!!
Absolutely brilliant.
Amazing!!! Loved and actually blown over by the content. I consider myself lucky that I could see this in my lifetime....
brutal, muy bcano el concepo... muy buena la animacion... excelent
Just the colors alone are amazing
I don't think this has enough views, it's jaw-dropping.
je l'aurais vu 1000 fois je crois !! excellent
L'animation est vraiment bluffante.
Je félicite Mathieu, son travail est très réussi!
OMG!!!!! It's amazing!!!! One of the best animations I've ever seen in my entire life!
Good job!
Il est vraiment magique ce petit film...
Very much like Studio4° and Masaaki Yuasa's work. I love it.
C'est très touchant. Et c'est un très beau court métrage.
Tout simplement génial!Ca fait du bien de voir de l' animation comme ça, c'est vrai que ça ressemble à du studio 4°c et j'en suis ravi d'ailleurs. Merci et bravo à Mathieu
Merci catsuka pour le lien!
C'est Super!! Ça m'ettone bien! C'est vraiment très bonne l'animation, les coulers, la musique, toutes ça dans une belle melange! S-U-P-E-R.
This all seems so natural :) !
Une trés belle danse sur une belle musique :)
une animation parfaite
un beau moment ...
very fantastic
The best animated short I've ever seen in my life
esto es una verdadera catedra de animacion estoy extasiado
That was one of the greatest pieces of animation I've seen in quite some time.
Amazing.
This is great, thanks for sharing!
Mind blowing, and being an animator myself I can appreciate the amount of work that was put into this, chapeau!
Masterful.
Human beings are extremely resourceful, in their desires, their energy, internal forces and those are thinga we may discover with more urgency, with more forces when we are deprived of movement.
soo...I won't be able to sleep anymore, knowing that animation this amazing exists in the world
i was speaking about frames per second, for example one second is always one second no matter if its on 12 fps or 24 fps, if you have lot of things going in short fragment of time you do everything on ones (24 fps) on contrary if you have slow action you can do it on twos without doing inbetweens
Normal spacing is on twos and far spacing is on ones.
C'est très beau, merci pour ce beau et grand moment d'animation !
WOW!! simply brilliant animation. is it just me or the first animations and the sound effects with the different people moving attached to the strings resemble the computer game broken sword?? did the guy who made this had something to do with the game? 5 stars video!!
Salut, Matthieu, ça fait une sacrée paie, dis donc.
Bin que dire qui n'a pas été dit?
Magnifique hommage !
Le moins que je puisse dire, c'est que toi et Seb, vous en avez choppé du level up depuis la Cambre.
En fait, j'ai pas du tout reconnu ta manière d'animer tellement elle s'est décomplexée depuis...
Encore un grand bravo, t'es arrivé à un niveau que je sais d'ores et déjà que je n'atteindrais jamais en anime, aussi restes-y bien, et continue de l'avant, t'as l'air d'être lancé, là.
JJ
totaly mindblowing
Merci
This is amazing talent. This is the kind of realism all but a few would have to roto-scope to get.
usually the frequency of frames in full animation is 24 fps (done on ones especially when the motion is fast like this)
.
That.
Blew.
My.
Mind.
WOW.
AMAZING!
Mathieu, ton film est superbe ! Vraiment, quel talent !
Félicitations, tu m'as mis ma claque de la journée. De la semaine... de l'année ! (2007 compris!)
Je m'en vais faire un peu de magie noire parce qu'à la force du crayon j'y arriverai jamais moi ;)
J'espère que tu en prépares de nombreux autres..
Benoît G.
the dancing bit on the white background remind me of an Apple commercial, anyone else think they got the idea from this short?
WOW! This was amazing!
great animation....english translation?
Wow, vraiment impressionnant!
Superbe sous tous rapports.
This is the most amazing short I've seen in .....well forever. Seems very 4 c and very original. I'm definately inspired to be an better animator now
Now THAT is animation.
Even better than I expected at first!
...speechless animator here.
Not to offend in any way but is some of this rotoscoped? The animation was that amazing
@MrsHoek
Yes !!! Mathieu Labaye is a great animator isn't it ?
You'r close but its not right. a second in a film is 24 fps but in animation is 12, each one is duplicated. But i know, Its a LOT of them and this short is awesome, and not only for the time spent to made it ;)
yes!
Increible
Genial...
ça c'est de l'ANIME ! chapeau l'artiste...
Inspired, salute labaye
vraiment impressionnant! Très bel hommage et un bon soutient à tout ceux qui souffrent d'un handicap...
Avec quel logiciel vous avez travailler pour le montage?
now THAT is animation
You are a fantastic animator. Post this on newgrounds
oh my god its so beautiful
génial !
this must be the coolest thing I've ever seen. I wish I could understand it though
wow how would you make something like this im assuming not flash lol but that was amazing
Holy fucking shit. Simply amazing. Probably get asked this non stop but how long did this take to make roughly?
wow
I'm very interested in the process of the animation here. It's obviously 24fps AT LEAST, I wonder if the artist went higher than that.
Also: He obviously created an animation guide, but did he use refrence for every single one of the characters? Must be over 2K unique characters, assuming it was "just" 24fps...
Hello Rachel, the animation is a 25 fps and was made, in 2007-2008, with light table, paper and pencil. The movement, was created by the animators with drawing roughs. After that, the animators and the assistants created, with their imagination, every different character for every 2 images. A particular attention was made in the graphic relation between them (size, clothes) who had to be in a continuous movement. Bye !
At first, I was like "wtf?" and then I was like "This is the coolest thing ever."
but... but... how?
How long did the production take for you?
I consider myself lucky that I could see this in my lifetime 2
yeaaaah merci!
Acid trip simulator:
wondeful
CSSSA Rules Hey CSSSA 2010 number one
wooow
5:29 halloweeeeen
holy mother of god....5.57 D: !!! all seconds wth !
That was incredible!!
However, I don't speak French and i don't think the translate option was spot on.
@mineofGod And then I was like, "wtf?" again, but I'm pretty stoned.
3:54 , if you want to skip the intro