From the hoop on Vimeo.
This week’s showreel is a great little animation from three French students: Remi Dessinges, Guillaume Fesquet and Anthony Arnoux. This is their graduation movie, made last year in Supinfocom Arles. It’s a suspenseful little number and very filmic in its style. The story is loosely inspired by the life of Earl Manigault, one of the greatest basketball players of his generation who lost everything to drugs. The end of his life was devoted to stopping children from Harlem walking the same path. He started the “Walk Away From Drugs” tournament for kids, and died in 1998 from heart failure.
You can see their drawings and renders and find out a little more about the film on their website: www.fromthehoop.com
The movie was made with 3D Studio Max 9 rendered entirely in default scanline (with an additional Ambient occlusion pass). They used Adobe After Effects for compositing and there is a “making of” on their website. Three talented graduates to watch.
