Le Royaume

Aka ‘The king and the Beaver’ is a grad­u­a­tion stu­dent film made in 2010 at the mighty Gob­elins ani­ma­tion school.

The ani­ma­tion in this lovely short is bril­liant, superbly timed, great pos­ing and a cute and orig­i­nal story line, which is prob­a­bly one of the hard­est things to get right in a short film. To make it more remark­able, most of this short was ani­mated by hand and then scanned to TVP for colour­ing, but due to the lack of high speed scan­ner at their school they ended up ani­mat­ing directly into TVP in order to fin­ish the film in time.

Writ­ten, directed and ani­mated by Nuno Alves Rodrigues, Ous­sama Bouachéria, Julien Chheng, Sébastien Hary, Aymeric Kevin, Ulysse Malas­sagne & Franck Monier. Music by Math­ieu Alvado.