Zoudov
I don’t know much about this short film, other than that it was a sort of thesis project for three students in the French school supérieure d’informatique de communication, or SupInfoCom. I’m hoping that the students, Laurent Gillot, Aurélia Verhnes and Clement Bolla, got good grades, because it’s beautiful–tied for first with two others as my favorite animated short ever. Similar in visual style to Pixar’s The Incredibles, Zoudov tells the story of a spy on a sabotage mission, who encounters some complications along the way.
This video got lots of play in the animation and design communities, but I think fans of Bond / spy fiction would also get a kick out of it. The references to 007 are numerous, from the John Barry score, to the resemblance between the heroine and actress Daniela Bianchi, aka Tatiana Romanova in From Russia With Love:
Daniela Bianchi
I’ve emailed the creators to see if I can get some more information on the project, their influences or possible continuations of the storyline for next week….
(Not spy, but Muppet-related: one of my other favorites also came from SupInfoCom: Over Time)
