Each year students from the graduating class of the remarkable Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris are divided into teams that create short animations to be used as introductions to each of the five day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation.
The emphasis is on 2D hand drawn animation. This year’s theme is “France in the Spotlight”.
One of the films, Au Lapin Agile, portrays Picasso and other artists at one of their cafe hangouts, in which a fistfight erupts into splashes of modern art genres.
You can see all five shorts on YouTube, as well as on the on the Gobelins (FR) website.
(Note: images above are just screen caps from each of the five films, not clickable embeds. Please follow the provided links to view the films.)
