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After discovering the Altiplano region in Chile, Mihai Grecu, the director of 'Centipede Sun', came up with the idea to create this beautifully atmospheric film. Funded by La Bourse de la Scam, the project was produced with the help of Mathematic Studios and Arcadi. A symbol of isolation, it's inspiration comes from the sublime Chilean landscape as well as the country's complex spiritual background.

"The film represents a the landscape as a self-sufficient being. The surrealistic transformations become a logical extension of the magnificent strangeness of the landscapes. These places known for the absence of any form of life within huge distances undergo a symbolic metamorphosis that provides them an internal abstract form of life. It is a geographical, mineral, colossal kind of life, based on elements which are extremely inhospitable to biological existence."

Post effects were created in house at Mathematic using 3D Maya, After FX and real flow.

Director: Mihai Grecu
Music: Herman Kolgen
DoP: Enrique Ramirez
Editor: Momoko Seto

Check out below for the exclusive trailer....

Stills from the film

Some lovely new additions to our on going side project of reinventing the Mathematic logo. Jean Michel who we worked with for Societe Generale and just recently for a project for TF1 and Intermarché has given us the following ...'A Mathematic Story'...Check out more of Jean-Michel's glorious work on his website.

Here are a few snapshots of the crew taken on the two day shoot in Brussels. The shoot lasted all through the night on each day so as you'll see there were a few tired faces not to mention a bit of fooling around.

UFO Director Wu “Nyno” Yue has lately been involved in Nike’s grassroots activities in Paris. The illustrators designs were used to create three limited edition Air Max LeBron VII sneakers newly launched by the brand.

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Also a few pictures of Yue in action drawing in Pigalle Basketballs court...

For fans of the Danger Seekers Video, created by The Holograms at Mathematic and UFO, you'll be pleased to see this addition of the film we recieved. After finishing the project the video was widely seen on the internet and at festivals around the world. So it wasnt a surprise when it was picked up by budding sound designers Toby Hulse and Dylan Reboulet. Toby and Dylan who are based in Vancouver designed some alternative sound for the video, which works so well we just have to show it here...

Here are few photos from the shoot and at Mathematic, having fun with some model trees...


Cut Scene
This scene of the transformer didn't make it into the final edit, but we'd like to show it anyway...

Initial Character Designing
Most of these didnt make the cut either, but they are pretty damn cute...

A psychedelic experiment involving beer, the mexican desert and a bit of crazy 3D. Animation is with courtesy of Manu Dufaure and the music was composed by our very own Mathieu Gastaldi...enjoy

A little experiment using our brand spanking new Canon 5D Mark II camera. Guillaume, Fred and Gill shot the entire film one wet night on the Paris streets. The starring actor is French musician Leeroy whose music, which also features in the film, was the inspiration behind the project.

The film follows a slightly alchoholic taxi driver as he picks up a host of strange passengers on a typical night run.

Can you guess who it is yet...

Here are a few reference quicktimes we had that enabled us to work out the correct lighting for the figures in in the 3D. All the reference material was taken during the live action shoot.

Still frames of the 3D incrusted in the live scene to show rendering, texturing and lighting effects...

And finally the pièce de résistance our very oven life reference material...

Check out our musical inpired logo Test...

Kap10Kurt and Lena...see how we created their cartoon versions...here.

He is friendly we promise...Our main idea with 'Snake' was to create a sort of short film around the theme : virtual motion elements in real spaces, a relationship between real materials and places.

The test was created using still frames of New York City and integrating the animation with 3D.

Check out just a few of the photos we took on set in Athens...

Yue drawing in the Asics Shop in Paris...

Check out our office in Paris...starting with our FLAME suite.

our office and animators upstairs...

and some of our blurred artists...

We've got lots of interesting things to show for this project. Not only a little film we made that takes you through the making of of the spot, but...

...some lovely shots taken on the day of the shoot...

Here a few pics we got of some of the amazing landscapes that we shot in for SNCF.

A little test we did for Bouygues...