Critical

The Beauty - Animated Short (2019)
by Pascal Schelbli


"What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea."

Crew
Director: Pascal Schelbli
VFX Supervisor: Marc Angele
Producers: Aleksandra Todorovic, Tina Vest
Underwater Cinematography: David Iskender Dinçer
Creature TD: Noel Winzen
Lead TD: Lukas Gotkowski
Animation: Noel Winzen, Pascal Schelbli
Lead Rigging: Noel Winzen
Rigging: Lukas Gotkowski · Seyed Ahmad Hosseini
Modeling: Pascal Schelbli, Fynn Große-Bley, Noel Winzen
Additional Modeling: Paul Golter, Mitja Öhm
Lead Sculpting: Fynn Große-Bley
Sculpting: Noel Winzen, Pascal Schelbli
Texturing: Marc Angele, Pascal Schelbli
Lighting/Shading: Marc Angele
FX/Simulation: Lukas Gotkowski, Noel Winzen, Tim Markgraf
Compositing: Marc Angele, Pascal Schelbli
Pipeline: Marc Angele
Storyboard/Animatic/Previs/Character Design: Pascal Schelbli
Editing: Pascal Schelbli
Additional Editing: Daniela Schramm Moura

Music: Alexander Wolf David, Petteri Sainio
Orchestration & Additional Composer: Meike Katrin Stein
Orchestra: Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
Sound Design & Mixing: Robin Harff

Poem: Pascal Schelbli
Creative Translator: Zornitsa Dimitrova

Color Grading: Peter Hacker (fatrat Color Grading GmbH)

VoiceOver: Charlie H Gardner

Created at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and Animationsinstitut

Supported by diving.DE

Sounds Good by Sander Joon

"Boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms."

Credits
Author: Sander Joon
Additional animation: Dag Ove Solaas, Katarina Skott, Leore Klyszejko
Sound design: Sander Joon
Sound re-recording & mixing: Matis Rei
Supervisors: Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn, Uri Kranot
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts, The Animation Workshop (Open Workshop), BOP! Animation
Year: 2018

I spent a month in Seoul and saw a city racing to the future. Here's the film I made with the help of the great people I met along the way. Director's commentary: youtu.be/S9kLihqA7jA

Original Music by Steven Richard Davis srdmusic.com/
Additional Music by Artlist https://goo.gl/mYs1Ve

Drone Footage Provided By:
Kris Gonciarz - tofu.media
Pavel Shin facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002236999448

Some interventions I have made in Montreal

Quick Fix by Chris O'Hara

Conception – Why I Won’t Teach My Son ‘Black Codes’ by The New York Times

"Her child is just 1, but she knows soon he will be perceived as a “big black boy.” Can she overcome the “systems” she feels are in place to oppress her young son?

Series Producer: Margaret Cheatham Williams

Animation by: Jocie Juritz

See the series: nytimes.com/conception"

Sent Away by Rosa Fisher

"Boarding schools can rip children out of their secure, loving homes and deposit them into a cold, unloving institution. ‘Sent Away’ looks at the psychological implications that this can have on children and in particular the effect it had on my father, Tom.
The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.

Directed by - Rosa Fisher
Musical score - Martino Gasparrini
Sound mix - Martino Gasparrini
Live Action - Martino Gasparrini
Voice over - Tom Fisher
Horn Playing - Tom Fisher
Colouring Assistance - Laura Carter, Jill Gibbon"

Tomorrow’s On Fire by Oh Yeah Wow

Created in direct response to the Australian Bushfire crisis, Darcy Prendergast's new film #TomorrowsOnFire is a rallying cry for hope, in a country increasingly scarce of it.

Please help support injured Australian wildlife, by making a donation to: wildlifevictoria.org.au/

Lyrics:
I’m angered, incensed, enraged and fed up.
With you lazy, ignorant fossil fool chumps

You’ve sold out our nation, and served up division
Whilst it’s grief stricken people, scream at deaf politicians

And it’s not just the humans— our animals fry
While you coal hearted arsonists, continue to thrive.

On our future you wager, without heed nor concern
Just misinformation, while our backyards burn

You elected officials hold aloft lumps of coal,
With the pride of an Olympian, who’s just won gold

From up high on ye’ podium, you silence dissenters
What we’ve come to expect, from you bald one percenters

You should be disgraced, and thrown headfirst from office.
Do not pass go, do not stock mining coffers.

Instead you drive narratives, of left vs right,
Whilst you all fear, what the middle just might.

So rally together, love strong and rage stronger
So that life on this planet, can last some time longer.

Tomorrow’s on fire, and the sky it bleeds crimson.
So it’s about time, we made our tax dollars listen.

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Made by: Oh Yeah Wow, ohyeahwow.com/

Written, animated & directed by: Darcy Prendergast.

Narrated by: Miles M.

Sound Design by: Richard Tamplenizza.

Narration recorded by: Talia Raso @ Dead On Sound.

Coloured by: Jayden Dowler, Meg Lee, Matt Abello, Marc Moynihan, Michael Sweeney.