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French animation studio Bastien Dubois would be a fresh graduate from Supinfocom Valenciennes as he began focusing on his debut professional short, a diary-styled film that gave viewers a glimpse in to the exotic landscapes and intriguing traditions of Madagascar.

This Year's film, Madagascar: An Outing Diary, designed a huge splash within the video clip world, taking home awards from Annecy and Ottawa, after which earning Academy Award and Cartoon d’Or nominations. A clip in the film could be seen below:

Its success led to another hands-attracted CG short, Cargo Cult, along with a short-form tv series within the same mold, Faces from Places (2013), which challenged Dubois to translate his unconventional and labor-intensive production technique right into a streamlined process that may be created more rapidly.

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Cartoon Brew spoke to Dubois in the Animateka festival last December in Ljubljana, Slovenia, about his signature hands-attracted CG style, his unconventional creative process on Madagascar, and also the anxieties of pointing a sizable crew the very first time.

Bastien Dubois in Decmeber, 2015, at Animateka festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Photo thanks to Animateka festival.)

Bastien Dubois in Decmeber, 2015, at Animateka festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Photo thanks to Animateka festival.)

Cartoon Brew: Madagascar: An Outing Diary wonderfully captures the organic and spontaneous sense of traveling. Was the development of the video anything like this?
Bastien Dubois: In The Year 2006, I gone to live in Madagascar for ten several weeks, outfitted with a few fundamental technical materials, the visual concept of an animated journey diary, and 6 lines of script. Rather than writing a script or drawing a storyboard, I began out animating three shots and distributing individuals across a period with a few music under animation studio . That grew to become the building blocks from the film.Each time after a little traveling through Madagascar, I’d return home [in Madagascar] to animate a couple of shots, according to my new encounters increase the edit from the film. Gradually the video was built around individuals three initial shots. I most likely had fully animated about forty percent from the film already prior to the story structure was, pretty much, established.