Animation: Freddy’s World

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Fabien Weibel has published his animation ‘Freddy’s World’. A stunning production which I totally enjoyed. Cool job!

Fabien wrote:

Hello,

I have just finished a two-month project ! It is a “short” animation (4min) I made for a future enrollment in a French high school. I would like to share it with blender’s community !

There is an official web page. I have also made a kind of logbook where I wrote every steps of the
production and creation of this project:

I would finally say a big thankyou to everyone who participate to Blender’s development!

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    • ccherrett

      Very well done!

    • http://martsmonde.free.fr MARTS

      Nice lol good work ;)

    • Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge)

      Awesome! Loved every second of it.
      Great concept and animation.

      Was quite funny as well.

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      Nice work.

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      The BlenderNation deathray strikes again! Fabien’s website went down in exactly 37 minutes after posting this.. I added the Vimeo version of his animation to this post.

    • http://www.richardculver.com Richard Culver

      That was great! Had me lol on several occasions. Good luck in school!

    • http://hpfteam.free.fr/graphisme-libre/ harrypopof

      Magnifique !
      Très chouette boulot, bravo :)

    • HolgerB

      This is Artwork I like!

      Very well done!
      Congratulations

    • http://www.saleo.biz LeoSala

      Very good! Great storytelling.

    • Chenric

      Congratulations!!!!

    • JiriH

      Excellent piece! I really love it. Perfect story, nice animation and style. Really superb short!

    • MarcoA

      Very nice job!
      I’m not an expert, but I think that every step of the job (story, modeling, rigging, camera moving…) is very well done.
      I had a look to your website… very nice.
      I wish you can realize all your dreams, man!

      M.

    • unstable

      Wow. This is really a fantastic video made with blender.
      Good graphics, story and use of music. Thumbs up.

    • Big Fan

      Really good. Great standard all round.
      I am sure who ever looks at it at the school will be impressed.
      Thanks for sharing and best luck for your future

    • Stefan Stenegger

      I love it. I love the story. And – yes, its very well done. I wish I could produce animations like that.

    • http://www.skol.ch/o o

      Very nice animation. I love the music and the camera movements.
      Bonne chance pour ton école.

    • http://www.ivogrigull.com Loolarge

      I was impressed by the watersim and the cameras. And loved the penguins!

    • http://www.enricovalenza.com EnV

      Simply awesome! Well done.

    • http://www.cuby.co.nr Cuby

      Really excellent film! As others have said, the music and camera movements were superb!

      Keep up the awesome work!
      Cuby

    • Pixel81k

      wow – very impressive!!!!

      Great story – remembers me to Calvin and Hobbes!! :-)

      Good job – wish i had a percent of your skills!

    • Agile

      HAHA! Very NIce:)

    • Alaa El-din

      Really great work

    • yellow

      Excellent, really enjoyed it.

      I thought the first bit in the apartment up to meeting freddy in his bedroom was a little slow. The airplane sequence in his imagination was great, just needed a bandana on in the cockpit and although I guessed the plane hitting the damn was going to be his fish tank smashing I still laughed because I wasn’t expecting him to be hanging from the lampshade with his expression. The number of times the damn was seen to break was a little too many and maybe the time delay in the dam breaking open gave the viewer enough time to associate the dam with the fishtank, perhaps a bit tighter cutting in that sequence.

      The little touches were great as well like the camera shake when the plane flew very close to the camera.

    • Jiuck

      Fantastic Animation!! :D

    • UndercoverBlenderist

      Absolutly cool.

      Everything is almost perfectly masterised and it’s astonishing you need this to enter in a school… it already looks like a “diploma movie”.
      I hope you won’t lose to much time in that school learning things you apparently already know. Maybe try to negociate to skip the first (and maybe even second) year !?

      Anyway, très chouette réalisation ! Bravo !

    • Vinimay Kaul

      Excellent Work…Really Really enjoyed it.
      Really liked the camera shakes and the Penguins :)

    • http://www.tweakingknobs.com TweakingKnobs

      YEAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
      aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
      aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
      aaaaaaaa
      aa
      a!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • http://www.fweibel.com Fweibel.com

      @Bart: It’s a good new, my viewcount should have exploded (I can’t see the stats now^^). I seriously think to change the bandwidth

      @Pixel81k: Actually, I get the idea after reading a Calvin & hobbes comic ! Mr. Watterson is a great inspiration for me !

      @yellow: I appreciate those kind of comments ! I always try to consider them when I make a new picture/animation!

      @everyone: Thanks for watching this !

      Here are some additional infos that you can get from my logbook:

      -Total rendertime: 284 hours! (= 11 days, spread over 6 PCs)
      -Baking: @ 1024 (15GB of RAM)
      -Total size of the project: 31Go (15,000 files)
      -6000 Frames (4min)
      -2 Months and 8 days of work @ 7h/jours = ~ 400 hours

    • http://siranikosbox.blogspot.com siraniks

      Magnificent, Excellente…

      That was nice work for the blender’s key features are all in there…

      All of the effect is nice…

    • Ian3d

      Great film. I think the blender community should launch an online streaming TV channel.

    • RedBirdiii

      Really awesome animation!
      But 284 hours!! wow! that’s a lot for 4 minutes animation!

    • Schlops

      Excellent! Perfect score, great timing, wonderful story. :)

    • http://www.DreadKnight666.com Dread Knight

      It was very good for one man show, i really enjoyed it! Cheers!

    • memals

      loved the penguins, well done !

    • blenderman345

      Amazing…… Loved it!

    • uka

      Beyond wonderful.. an excellent work.. accolades.. congratulations and hope to see more..

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Hi, Fabien I have put a long comment on your site.

      This movie is awesome. As I had the idea of entering a CG school some years ago (I have given up because of the heavy cost), I have seen many projects done by students at the end of their studies. They were rarely individual project, but instead team projects.

      I have to say that most of them, if not all, were very inferior in quality, compared to your own movie.

      As I wrote in french on your site, I think that these kind of school will teach you the softwares used in standard by the cinema industry, but I’m quite sure that for the pure technics, you already know more than most of the teachers that I have met in the schools that I have visited !

      A big Bravo ! I wish you a great career in the marvelous CG universe !

      Philippe.

    • http://nicknamfx.blogspot.com Nicknamz

      So cool!!… is a very cinematographic short, absolutely talented :D

    • http://www.fweibel.com Fweibel.com

      @ROUBAL: merci pour ton commentaire sur mon site ! Peut etre peux-tu m’aider? en fait je compte m’inscrire à l’ecole ESMA, ou (carrément) Gobelins en france. est-ce que tu connait l’une ou l’autre ? et aurais-tu des avis à me donner?

      Merci !

    • http://virtualanvil.wordpress.com BlendRoid

      Wow, that explosion was awesome, as was the breaking of the dam! My only criticism is that the main character doesn’t look as good as the background elements.

    • Phoen1x

      You have a very bright future ahead mate!

    • Olaf

      Excellent work! The only bugaroo I saw was that the fast turning properllor of the airplane didn’t look very convincing.

    • Mateus

      AWSOME!! :)

    • http://www.jordanmharris.wordpress.com Leonardo

      Fantastic job! Cute, creative, and enjoyable. :-)

      - Leo

    • EagleWing

      This is absolutely amazing. You could almost believe that this was a professional short. To think that one guy did it all!

    • dmbasso

      Very very nice!!! :)
      Congratulations! I hope to see more animations from Fabian in the future!

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      @Fabien Weibel : Je connais essentiellement Aries et Supcréa qui sont deux écoles réputées sur Grenoble, et j’ai visionné des films de fin d’étude de l’école des Gobelins, mais je ne saurais pas trop te conseiller. Je connais très peu d’infographistes Français, et encore moins qui connaissent Blender. Si tu veux discuter à l’occasion, envoie moi un mail.

    • http://www.fweibel.com Fweibel.com

      @ROUBAL: On m’a aussi parlé de Aries. Ca me plairais assez de pouvoir y entrer ! On m’a dit que c’est une bonne école, et comme il y en a au moins 6 ou 7 en france, elle doit en effet être assez réputée

    • Claws

      Great short film! I really enjoyed it too.

    • Born

      Fantastic! lol

    • Sven

      A very cool animation :D

    • Hummm

      Nice! Good animation and story!

    • fred

      woww! excellent btw the beginning of the plane flight resembles me to goldeneye and the dam too, it’s an excellent work very cool!

    • fred

      and the story is nice and very funny too

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      I’ve just noticed in the credits : Stunts and make up ! Ahah, funny !o)

    • Jahmaica

      Nice work!

    • n00bhaxor

      Great Work! I loved it, this ranks among my top favorite blender animations. Very nice fluid sim with the dam, btw.

    • nebular

      Funny and interesting. Some relly great shots with the plane!
      I got a strange feeling of FF7 while watching in. That music, character.. heh, it’s just me.
      Great work!

    • TonyB

      Are you in primary school now ? Absolutely amazing !

    • kram1032

      Wow! Well done :D Cute :)
      That’s really great!

    • Ed P

      Very nice work! Don’t skip college, regardless of how many job offers you get as a result of this post. XD

    • dxx

      really cool!!! the story is simple but with some humor, adn you’ve used different techniques, specially in particles (explosion, smoke and fluids) two thumbs up..

    • http://j.veirasgalisson.free.fr/blog/ RooL

      Waouw, very very good, a good story, good animation, good rendering, particles, fluids, this guy can deal with every part of a 3D production.

      Chapeau bas.

    • http://j.veirasgalisson.free.fr/blog/ RooL

      Can we have it in Blender movies ?

    • tom g

      awesome. You’ve mastered every aspect of blender! I look forward to see more of your work in the future. enjoy college!

    • entplex

      @Fweibel, What process did you use to create those amazing volumetric clouds in the scenes with the airplane? I have been wanting to animate a camera moving through the clouds in a similar fashion and have had a hard time. This is an amazing movie and all is executed very well!

    • http://www.kreanimate.co.uk Karl

      Very well done Mr Fabien! :) Making a short film is difficult; making a *good* short film is infinitely harder. Even if you’re limited by your knowledge of the software, your sense of storytelling is absolutely spot-on, and that’s all that matters. I can’t wait to see what sort of films you’ll be making once you’ve finished your education; you’re already beyond what several of my classmates had achieved after 3 years of study at university.

      You have a very bright future ahead of you, and I wish you the very best of luck. Bonne chance!
      Karl

    • Saint Vitus

      Brilliant, mate! Absolutely brilliant! Loved it!!!

    • http://www.loklomedia.com/blog/ dwayne

      This rocks.
      Soon I will have the time to sit down, properly learn character and related animation skills, and start making some stuff like this. Awesome parallel story, love the ending!!

      Bonne chance avec tout les choses en trois dimensions!

    • http://keenix.blender.net Keenix

      Whoo not bad =D I was expecting another horrible animation (tbh the quality of blender animations I see around arent so good except for big buck bunny) But was pleasantly surprised =D and judging by the number of people posting I’m not the only one =D

    • random

      great job.

    • Occulus

      The whole video was very well done, but the water effects at the end were nearly perfect.

      FINALLY, Blender water that does not look like snot.

      :D

      Well done.

    • Kijja

      nice work nice story
      nice blendering
      yes, I love the ending too.

    • squareline

      LOL LOL LOL :D we waiting for : to be continue!
      Congratulations!

    • Ruby

      Sensacional.
      Realmente espetacular.
      Parabéns e continue assim.

    • Photoguy

      Well done, great animation, nice story!

    • lile

      How cool :D This is soo in the spirit of Calvin & Hobbes, makes me want to see more tricks of this bad boy ;) So, I guess it works !

    • MrE

      ‘Two thumbs up’.

      Good animation and a good script.
      Too often one of the two is missing.

      Only thing i can think of that needs some improvement is the explosion. The start of the explosion looked good, but when it ended like it looked like something that had grown on the dam.

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      Not bad. Did you by any chance watch the music video for “Da Rude – Next To You”? :-)

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVhG8xshusk

    • http://www.studiorola.com Sim Pern Chong

      This is so nicely done… the music, action are all very well integrated.

    • Tinkertonk

      Just excellent!
      The music really ties it perfectly together. I watched it three times. Twice for the animation and once just to see how the music was used. When I saw it was all done by the same guy, I was floored. Well done.

    • richard pagan

      that was too friggin funny,loved every bit of it. as a blender noob I’d like to see a tutorial on it. blend on dude!!

    • D@nny

      Great, funny and nice effects!
      Absolutley great!

    • me!

      I just had to say – WOW!

      Incredible! I love it! Keep up the good work, you’re great!

    • http://oli-s-blog.blogspot.com/ Oli-

      Excellent ! I’ve watched it 3 or 4 times ^^ !!

    • banor

      Wow, I love it! :) Very excellent. I mean, the inside the plane (cockpit) shots, some facial expressions (the eyes,) the penguin shot was a little too long, the dam explosion could have happened a little sooner, and so on could have been fixed, but as an overall it was one of the best Blender animations I have ever seen – not for it’s “perfection” but for it’s music, story, ingenious, fun… sure, ED has detail, BBB good animation, and others have a quality for their unique style, but this one is great for the fun of it. :) Bravo, man! :D

      -b

    • Shenan

      Fabien, very very well done. How long have you been doing 3d, and did you learn on your own?

      I see from your website that you’re 19, so you must be applying to a college instead of high school. High school is secondary school (grades 9 to 12). I’m sure that you will do very well in your career, based on this movie.

      Post this to some other sites too, like cgtalk.com especially (in either the finished animations forum or the blender forum there).

    • Traligy

      Very nice!! loved it.

    • diablothe2nd

      First of all, congratulations on the project!

      For me, a good film, whether a short or long one has to spark emotions inside me as I watch it.. in just 4 mins I laughed, panicked, empathised and even got goosebumps while sharing the thrill of flying around in the plane with Freddy! Infact, dare I say it, I think I shared more emotions from this, than Big Buck Bunny and Elephants Dream!!! Freddy as a character is really easy to relate to!

      For me, this is definitely very high up on my list of top film shorts made with blender. If this doesn’t get you into that school I think you should go pro and or join the BBB/Elephants Dream team for their next production!!!

      Many Congratulations on a top short :)

    • tomk

      Lovely story and well executed animation, I loved every second of it. :)

    • Mac Duy Hai

      That was awesome in every aspect! The camera movements were brilliant and the story made me laugh.

    • http://byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      Fabien, this is such a wonderful animation! I love the story and all the detail you put into it. Thank you so much for the blog, that explains the steps involved in such an large undertaking. It was very inspiring to see what one person can do who is dedicated and persistant to a project. Congratulations on a wonderful job!

    • http://www.hamsterking.com JoOngle

      WOW! Just WOW!

      This is WAY above what most people can do in a ONE man team in just 2 months.

      The story is BRILLIANT – and you made the whole thing work, with music and all.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if you get a job at PIXAR after this one. Seriously!

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      Very nice job! in 2 months?!

    • http://miller.logspark.com Miller

      Bravo Fabien, c’est magnifique!