The Annecy International Animation Festival launched yesterday and is currently celebrating its 50th birthday! This is the world’s largest event solely dedicated to animation.The event consists of an animation competition, conferences and a film market (MIFA), in a rather friendly atmosphere where you can meet enthusiasts, professionals, major players and new talents.

You can check out the festival trailer here: Annecy Animation Festival Trailer.

This is our very first short film created circa 2004. We are aware of its shortcomings and weaknesses but we love it like a first child!

We thought we should post it here for everyone to see just for the fun of it.

You can also view the same video on Vimeo:

Here is a preview of part of Roshanak’s animation done by Saman Khorram. This is just an OpenGL capture without motion blur or rendering.
Preview 1:

Animation Preview 01

Preview 2:

Animation Preview 02

Preview 3:

Animation Preview 03

Due to lack of time the main problems we encountered during the rigging and animation process were two main issues:

1– Creating a solid envelope that would not break during the animation

2– Creating believable movements for hair and clothings.

For the first one, our lead animator, Saman Khorram who was charged with the animation of the main character Roshank, decided to forgo the primary rig and create one of his one which would be more stable and easy to work with, and took care of the enveloping so that it wouldn’t create any problems during animation.

Our other animator, Farhad Youssefi, decided to stay with the primary rigs and animated the father and the mother.