Codehunters

I just stum­bled on this piece I saw about 3 or 4 years ago and it had the same effect it had back then: I got shiv­ers down my spine. This is a deli­ciously deliv­ered short cre­ated by Swiss artist/director Ben Hibon for MTV Asia. It was broad­cast as both a stand­alone short film and used to brand the MTV Asia Music Video Awards. I believe that cap­tur­ing the essence of Ben Hibon’s illus­tra­tion style with such accu­racy and respect was best trick of the ani­ma­tion team.

Hibon moved to Lon­don in 1996 to study Graphic Design at Cen­tral Saint Matins Col­lege of Art and Design, fol­lowed by a Mas­ters Degree at the same school. Code­hunters was pro­duced by Bart Yates for Blinkink, ani­mated and CG super­vised by Stu­art Aitken of stu­dio Axis Ani­ma­tion, sound design and music by Joris de Man and the post-production by The Mill.

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing more about how this piece was made, stu­dio Axis cre­ated this insight­ful doc­u­men­tary on how the look of the ani­ma­tion was achieved: