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23/3/2012

On the Path of Animation

Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Singapore

Alliance Francaise de Singapour presents the exhibition of French Animation Film Festival at the SOCIETE GENERALE Gallery with the showcase of “On the Path of Animation at the Gobelins School, Paris”.

It will display a series of around 40 art works created by notable student talents of different levels from GOBELINS, L’ECOLE DE L’IMAGE, a school of applied arts, digital and print media.

At this exhibition, viewers can witness the student’s creative and technical excellence through their professionalism, strong graphic and character designs as well as their storyboards for their academic films. It aims to showcase the creative process of animation film making at GOBELINS and provide a platform for exposure to the talents.

GOBELINS students and graduates of the animation program have long been prized for their creative and technical excellence as well as the professional level of their skills. The institute offers both full time educational and short professional training programs in the fields of multimedia (web design and interactive projects), photography, graphic and motion design, traditional and digital printing, and animation film making (hand-drawn, digital and 3D).

Although the animation program at GOBELINS dates back to 1974, it was only in 1985 in the context of a partnership with the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that is still going strong that GOBELINS students began to make animation films. Today students make films in all three years of the program, including the first year films made in collaboration with famed political cartoonist Plantu, the Annecy bumper films made in the second year, and finally the graduation films made during the third, final year of study. To this mix are added examples of films made during internships in studios, or in studios shortly after graduation. All attest to the strong artistic personality and skills of GOBELINS students admitted to the program after passing the notoriously selective entrance exam of this famed Paris school.

Many GOBELINS graduates of the animation course now work in major studios around the world, prized for their creative and technical excellence as well as the professional level of their skills. It is therefore invaluable for a school like GOBELINS to be present at this festival event in Asia which has indeed become a major crossroads for creators, producers, educators and students wishing to share ideas and energies for all forms of digital creation.

Eric RIEWER, director of international relations at GOBELINS, L’ECOLE DE L’IMAGE, a school of applied arts, digital and print media affiliated to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will be a speaker at the Singapore Animation French Film Festival in March 2012.

Eric Riewer will talk about GOBELINS’ special approach to teaching animation and show recent student films, many of which have won awards in international festivals and competitions. He will also discuss the importance of an international strategy when it comes to teaching animation in all its multiple facets - the ever-widening field of animated images stretches from cartoon series, feature and art films to video games and special effects. Schools continue to play a leading role in the digital revolution that has transformed animation production during the past few years by nurturing new talents and new visions while sharpening the animation and design skills of their students.

Although the digital revolution has transformed the animation program at GOBELINS since its creation more than 35 years ago, the foundations of drawing skills remain firmly in place. GOBELINS believes that digital tools do not replace the artist who needs nonetheless to master a wide array of skills in computer graphics in order to give life to his or her animations. The artistic talent of GOBELINS students will also be on display in an art show showing the creative process of the student animation films.

30 Years of Cartoon Exhibition by Jacques Muller

Accompanying the exhibition of GOBELINS will be a showcase of a 30 – 40 panels of sketches from Jacques Muller. The exhibition tited “30 years of cartoon” offers a short peak into the career of Jacques Muller as animator for over 30 years in a variety of animation studios around the world. Starting in Paris around 1977 as Story boarder for French TV, he soon gets his first ticket to the Australian city of Sydney where he consecutively will work at Burbank films, Hanna-Barbera and Yoram Gross Film studio. The next step will take him into the Feature animation arena with the famous movie “Who framed Roger Rabbit?” produced in London in 1987/88. From then on, Jacques will spend the next 10 years between the Disney studios in Los Angeles, Universal pictures, Warner Bros. and Don Bluth studios, to finally land at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic. After taking part in the production of “The Phantom Menace Episode I” He will eventually work in videogames on The Lord of the ring for EA on the PlayStation II and the Xbox consoles. The most recent years saw him renew with Feature animation on several projects, from Halifax to Mexico and Scotland; among which “The Illusionist” remains the piece de resistance to date. Jacques now teaches and lectures at Nanyang polytechnic school of Singapore on Classical animation and related topics.

Info Press: Benedict Tan
Gallery Manager
Alliance Française de Singapour
1 Sarkies Road Singapore 258130
t: +65 6833 9314 f: +65 6733 3023
benedict@alliancefrancaise.org.sg
www.alliancefrancaise.org.sg

Image: On the Path of Animation at the Gobelins School, Paris

SOCIETE GENERALE Gallery
& Level 2 and 4 Corridor Spaces
Alliance Française de Singapour
Mon to Fri, 11am to 7pm;
Sat, 11am to 5pm;
Sun and PH Closed
Admission is free.

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