Meet Buck + Salesman Pete

[Hnilmik]

Whoa, this is WAY too beautiful and pretty and painterly to be CG!!

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inb4 bestiality and furries

This one is also nifty~

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[slantedskarekrow]

I think the salesman pete one had been shown on here before, but yea they're both great. The end of meet buck was great.

[Hnilmik]

Daaaaaannnggggg where have I been to miss out on that 2D/CG goodness!

Since a lot of CG movies look like plastic, for lack of better words, I never really seen anything like this before and it makes me wonder how do they do it!

[emanhattan]

this is just

wow

[MarcK]

i wish i could be a deer i guess il just animate a girl making out with one.

[lenko]

what feature cartoons should look like by now

unfortunately companies like dreamworks still mostly insist on making their characters look like dolls/toys

[DrRumack]

what feature cartoons should look like by now

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every single frame looks like an illustration

[Thor]

what feature cartoons should look like by now

unfortunately companies like dreamworks still mostly insist on making their characters look like dolls/toys

They're all just trying to copy Pixar instead of forging their own path :[

[Flash]

They're all just trying to copy Pixar instead of forging their own path :[

and last time they tried that, we got the awful-looking polar express/beowulf/mars needs moms style
which goes to show how some big-name studios should seriously take a hint from these wonderful shorts. salesman pete looks fucking amazing

[Hnilmik]

and last time they tried that, we got the awful-looking polar express/beowulf/mars needs moms style
which goes to show how some big-name studios should seriously take a hint from these wonderful shorts. salesman pete looks fucking amazing

I guess you can say that they keep hitting the uncanny valley whenever they try too hard to make CG movies "realistic", down to eerie-excessive mocapping, when taking more stylized approaches would make their movies look more appealing and less... Creepy.

How do I explain it right... "Bigger facial features (like eyes and heads) =/= stylized" because the exaggerations are willy-nilly and don't quite make sense? The humans in a lot of Dreamworks's stuff bug me, but the humans in How to Train Your Dragon don't and neither do the humans in Pixar films because they're more animated-looking.

[Flash]

if you wanna go for soemthing cartoonish, go for something cartoonish. there's no point in making characters with horribly big noses (tintin) and then making the textures and character motion as realistic as possible

[lenko]

yeah something like these two shorts would have really suited that tintin film

[aether]

its too bad these shorts take so much effort to make or else feature cartoons would look like this

still id rather watch only 1-2 of these shorts a day instead of the stuff on tv now that runs all day

[Gregly]

Were both of these made by the same people?
Still don't like salesman pete too much, but I liked the other one more.

[Hnilmik]

Hmmm!

Meet Buck's Main Folks:
[blockquote]Denis Bouyer
rigamix@gmail.com

Yann De Preval
yann_de_preval@hotmail.com

Vincent E Sousa
vinz.esousa@gmail.com
(Rigging reel : vimeo.com/​13957690)

Laurent Monneron
laurent.monneron@gmail.com

Sound Design: Julien Begault
julien.begault@gmail.com

Music : Yannis Dumoutiers and Mickaël Védrine
yannisdumoutiers.com[/blockquote]

Salesman Pete's Main Folks:
[blockquote]Marc Bouyer
bouyer.marc@gmail.com
fr.linkedin.com/​pub/​marc-bouyer/​23/​6a9/​1b2

Max Loubaresse
max.loubaresse@gmail.com
fr.linkedin.com/​pub/​max-loubaresse/​11/​379/​463

Anthony Vivien
anton.vivien@gmail.com
fr.linkedin.com/​in/​anthonyvivien

Music: Cyrille Marchesseau
cyrillemarchesseau.com

Sound Design: Mael Vignaux
khelben1@gmail.com

+ rigging from Vincent E SOUSA[/blockquote]

So by the looks of things, the directors may be related and the rigging is more or less by the same guy. Easier-ish to see who does what here in the About Us.

From the Salesman Pete clip: "Again, we are NOT from Supinfocom, we left our school in order to do this short our own way !"

They were all from the same French animation school too. Interview regarding Saleman Pete here, with a bit about them dropping out of school to make it possible.