‹ Les Trois Inventeurs › excerpt - Complete film available English-subbed on DVD

[MultiFRM]

Excellente animation!

[nevermint1]

to barbarzyństwo, oglądać TAKIE wspaniałości w tak słabej rozdzielczości..

[inphanta]

That was amazing.  The detail on that balloon was astounding. Please post a longer version.

[Turtleheart]

@inphanta This sample is just what aaa have provided on their Web site for years; I only uploaded it here to get it noticed more. If you like it you can buy the DVD (under £11 including delivery to the UK, a lot less than what I paid when it was a new release) which has this and many other films and making-ofs with full English subtitles and remastered so you'll be able to perceive much more detail on that balloon and everything else.

[MediaFilter]

Wow I love the way he rows with the wings!

[fromShire]

ou on peu telecharger ce miracle??

[Turtleheart]

@fromShire Téléchargement Je ne sais pas, mais on peut acheter le DVD «Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot » sur Amazon ou la Fnac. Il a ce film et de nombreux autres.

[syleriam]

Thank you very much for posting this, it's just amazing and extremely beautiful

[pyraflame]

so precious!

[zwj1986]

Perfect! I can not find a better adjective than that！

[MushroomMai]

How beautiful... the intricacy is amazing.

It's all made from paper? My that's fabulous. :)

Im a huge fan of Reiniger (she's one of my hero's)... and I think this animation has deffinately got to be right up there with her animations.

Beautiful<3

[Turtleheart]

@MushroomMai Paper and card, and the card characters were backed in places with metal as another commenter has already mentioned so that they adhered to the magnetic plate behind the background and didn't fall completely out of place so easily.

[benedetto55]

stupendo!

[gakodomi]

Thank you so much for refreshing my eyes!!!

Love this!!! Also thank you for the information about this video.

[yolo22]

wow!!!!!

[Eener1000]

Wow, I love the animation quality and visual style! I am amazed I had never heard of this before or seen any of it despite being into animating

[Pollllypocket]

holy moly, that is incredible!

[littlekittygarden]

omg what is this music ?? I love it soooo much I really love it :')

[Turtleheart]

It's just the film's original soundtrack, composed by Christian Maire. Despite how fascinating I find Ocelot's design, direction, morals etc., Maire's electro-baroque music for Ocelot's ‹ La Princesse insensible › and ‹ Ciné si › is perhaps more than half the reason I love them so much and the thing I would most like to be released, probably more than anything anything else, is a collection of Maire's complete soundtrack music in CD-Audio quality without the voices and sound effects.

[omykron]

I've just seen azur et asmar and can't believe it's the first time I hear from this unbelievable artist, this one minute of animation is great, can't wait to get that dvd.

[mirrorsu]

Thanks for sharing!

I really love his works!

[looneywoman]

Actually, the animation here reminds me of George Pal's Puppetunes from the forties for some crazy reason. I suppose because it's stop-motion animation, albeit not necessarily of what we would now call "Clay-mation"...

[Turtleheart]

I love both but tend to think of them as opposites; Pál characterised by the cartoon bounciness of his replacement animation and Ocelot by the restraint and rigidity of armatured movement (though some replacement is used, such as with the rowing here, to make repeated movements easier); I suppose the link is that both the paper of this and the painted wood of Pál's puppet cartoons have a texture but they're not /as/ texturous as either clay or puppets of the Mackinnon & Saunders type can be.

[looneywoman]

I do see what you mean about the restraint in style. There is also a visual attempt at elegance and a concetration on shadow as well as silhouette here, whereas Pal's work seems more of an attempt to make "cute and cuddly" seem more real than typical cel animation of the period.

In other words, the work here is clearly art for art's sake (borrowing from the MGM trademark, lol), whereas the Pal artwork, while clearly in its own world, also tries to "cross over" to, and emulate, reality.

[reemirror]

i love watching/experiencing this day after day.. truly.. thank you!

[Turtleheart]

You mean you have the Trésors cachés DVD as well? It's a delight (other than the letterboxing of Earth Intruders and L'Invité) but I couldn't watch Les 3 Inventeurs regularly, it's too disturbing for that. Instead, I'm trying to get through La Princesse insensible, which I wasn't too enthusiastic about after the first 2 or 3 episodes but am now finding more and more of a revelation. I try to get through no more than one a day but that means I often end up going several days with none

[marinaayra]

one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen

[DianaPaez713]

@marinaayra

seriously.

[ArnoldKlein]

Where can i find the complete short, bró?

[Turtleheart]

Only by getting a print of it from aaa production or Ocelot himself, if at all. But there are plans to release it on DVD-Video, along with other short films and an alternate ending to 'Azur et Asmar.' Until then, I have found some stills from other parts of film and listed them on my Web site.

[ArnoldKlein]

Kirikouuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

BEST IN THE WORLD..like Hayao Miyazaki

from Buenos Aires, Argentina,

arnoldklein . com

[pijuan03]

same looks at reiniger, should look at Yuri norstein too. watch my animations ; )

[Turtleheart]

Actually, this is what I now know to be called "semi-relief animation," though they are silhouettes of a kind. It's side-lit, to create the shadows, whereas the true silhouette animation of Reiniger and Princes et princesses is done on a translucent surface which is lit from behind.

[pijuan03]

Thanks for pointing that out! I didn't notice. ;)

[hidroapeiron]

beautiful

[Turtleheart]

Ocelot is trying to get a DVD of his short films out -- hopefully by the end of the year. I'm less optimistic as to whether they will think to include Engish subtitles, but just being able to see the whole thing would certainly be an improvement!

[sadunkal]

I had a chance to chat with him during FMX in Germany. It was fun.

He said that he didn't really like Björk's music but he respected her as an artist, and also that he hates video games. :)

I suggested that he has to play the right games but I doubt that he'll ever try.

He also showed this shortfilm during his presentation, is really impressive.

[sadunkal]

Plus, he also showed a rather surprising 2D-Animation film he had made back in the old days. He said that he can't include it in the DVD because of the content, but try to attend one of his presentations if you ever get the chance. I'll only say that it was something unexpected. :D

[sadunkal]

And now to think he also said that he used magnets and iron to animate this more efficiently. And that he glued tiny amounts of iron to the papers if I remember correctly...

[LuckyBadger]

That was over way too soon. :-(

I want MORE!