‘The Secret of Kells’ Wins Audience Award at Annecy ’09
‘The Secret of Kells’ has won the audience award on the Annecy ’09 film festival. Parts of this movie have been produced in Blender by the Belgian studio Digital Graphics, who we also know from ‘Friday or another day‘ and ‘The Mask of the Red Death‘. Congratulations guys!
Ume serge wrote:Digital Graphics have worked during 2 years on Tomm Moore’s full cartoon “The secret of Kells” (Brendan et le secret de Kells in French).
This movie is currently available in theaters in France, Belgium an Holland since 11 th february. The Irish released is 6th March. Hope we could have a distribution in UK and states in the future.
We use “Blender” for a part of 2D and 3D effect on this Movie like all movies we worked on.
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Congratulations, Annecy Fim Festival is a very good reference for anime…
Congrats on the award! I have to say, unpacking this sort of thing in a pipeline scenario would make for a great talk at the Blender Conference. Please consider… :)
I like the traditional Japanese feel.
Beautiful! I love those old illuminated texts. What a great inspiration for an animation!
@Rozzatron, you’re a little off on your geography. The Book of Kells is Irish.
I love the Book of Kells!
@Tony I was about to say the same thing. The studio is French too. So I don’t know where the “anime” comment came from.
http://www.thesecretofkells.com/
Wow, the Annecy film festival is a prestigious event for animated films. Congratulations for the award.
Hi all,
thanks a lot for you congrats but we are a part of the complete movie creation.
“Brendan” is a Irish, french and Belgian coproducion. 6 studios worked during 2 years on this project :
Cartoon saloon (Ireland, Tomm’s moore company) : Creation, BG, Part of key animation, flash effects, ….
Lightstar (Brasil) : inbetween and scanning
Kechkemet films (Hongary) : part of animation, in between, scanning
Walking the dog (Belgium) : part of animation, 3D sequences, part of compositing
Digital Graphics (Belgium) : All ink and paint, 2D effects, part of 3D, 3 sequences compositing
Sprit studio (France) : 70 % of compositing
Note : since “Friday or another day” all movies we made is in a part with Blender like :
Oscar and the pink lady, Sans Rancune, La chanteuse de Tango, Insomnia, Home, Hand of Headles Man, …
I can talk about this in the next Blender Conference.
We prepared the new Tomm’s Moore project “The Song of the Sea” ( see http://theblogofthesea.blogspot.com/ )
All the best,
Serge
Extremely professional and very well done! Congratulations!!
Blender Ownz Ye all!
Stunning. Very professionally done, and brilliant artistic direction. I really, really hope this comes out in the States. If nothing else, I’ll definitely want a dvd. =) Brilliant job.
Excellent work, guys. It looks beautiful!
eboyskies, US distribution are confirmed see :
http://theblogofkells.blogspot.com/2009/06/distribution-in-us.html
I think DVD could be available in this summer and distibued by Buena Vista
Blender works :
– librairies like : mist, rain, snow, ink darkness, smoke, …
– 3D doors braking, sea, some element
– Cat ghost and trail
– Chirho page sequence (last sequence)
Sorry for my bad english
I have seen the movie with my 2 sons, in March in Belgium (Liège), and they love it, me too.
The graphics are stunning, originals and the music is beautiful.
And now that I know that Blender has been used, I love it a little bit more.
@Umbroth, I hope there will be a making of on the DVD, i’m waiting for it.
Great work!!
It’s great that a new cartoon studio make such high quality cartoons..
:) nice to see Ireland represented in the animation world. Cartoon Saloon seem to have been working on this forever (before i went to college in some form).
Great work, nice trailer, would love to see this in the UK.
@ Bmud
maybe all feel the japanese feel, since the French people have the most similar style to them, from all the Europe.
I saw these days a horror french movie, and if that movie would be doubled in japanese, I wouldn’t figure out that is french :)
That looks absolutely stunning. I’m getting that movie when it arrives on dvd.
“We use “Blender” for a part of 2D and 3D effect”
Could you elaborate please?
I am with Arn on this, I would like some elaboration if possible. what exactly did they use blender for ?
too Anrn and random and other,
Blender works :
– librairies like : mist, rain, snow, ink darkness, smoke, …
large with particle system
– 3D doors braking, sea, some element
– Cat ghost and trail (Aisling song and cat transform)
– ChiRho page sequence (last sequence)
You can see some stuff on my homepage website (choose in video player “showreel animation 2009”)
also some image (end of roll) :
http://www.digitalgraphics.be/?page_id=8&idfiche=brendan&lang=en
best i can do for the moment
Serge
US Premiere (NY)
see http://www.gkids.tv/intheaters.cfm
Serge
Excellent, very cool!