BEST Friend

05/09/2019

Hey everybody! Best Friend team will be at
the Viborg Animation Festival this year! 🇩🇰
with Nicholas Olivieri and YI Shen

If you want to meet us here is the plan 😎

Have a nice day!

04/09/2019

Hello everybody!

As we promised, here is the part 2 of the “Making of Best Friend”.

This time our co-director Nicholas Olivieri will talk about visual development and character design, and how we achieved all together this style.

Hope you enjoy it 🙂

Thanks again for the support that Gobelins, l'école de l'image - Page officielle and Mediawan are giving us for the realization of these videos!

Nicholas Olivieri, co-director of "Best Friend", explains the visual development work behind the Annie Awards Winner 2019. The movie: https://youtu.be/j01Hg4...

29/06/2019

Hey everyone!

After 1 year, we are finally here to present :

Making of Best Friend - The Story

Filmed and edited by one of co-director YI Shen, this episode he shared where is the idea came from in the early stage and how we completed the story together.

Hope you enjoy it :)

Ps: Thanks to the support from Gobelins, l'école de l'image - Page officielle and Mediawan. More episodes are coming soon!

Shen Yi, one of the directors of Best Friend, explains the personal experience behind the storyline. The movie: https://youtu.be/j01Hg4QJ6NE Other Gobelins g...

29/05/2019

Hello everybody!
Here some update with the new festivals selections

21/05/2019

Thank you so much Festival Internacional Chilemonos for this Award! 🎉

12/02/2019

ANNIE AWARD FORTY SIX Best Student Film!
With Nicholas Olivieri, Shen Yi, Varun Nair, David Feliu and Juliana de Lucca 💫🏆

21/12/2018

Best friend is Staff picked on Vimeo! 💥💥
Happy Holidays to everyone!

26/11/2018

Thank you so much Guillermo del Toro
❤️✨🔥

24/11/2018

Thanks to Spanky Few for this article!

Entre Black Mirror et une bande dessinée d’Adrian Tomine, le court métrage d’animation Best Friends, réalisé par des étudiants de l’école Gobelins à Paris, fait froid dans le dos… Imaginez un monde où l’amitié réelle n’existe plus et où pour avoir le sentiment de faire partie ...

22/11/2018

We just crossed 800K views on YouTube. Check out the film if you still haven't. Here are some background designs and a compositing breakdown of one of our shots.

17/11/2018

Thank you Stash Magazine!

Virtual companionship comes at a high price in this animated short film created by five recent animation graduates at GOBELINS in Paris.

12/11/2018

Color keys painted by Varun Nair.
Storyboard drawings by YI Shen