French animator and CG artist Paul Lavau (whose credits include Despicable Me 2 and Minions), teams with Paris studio Wizz to craft a trio of emotional vignettes capturing very personal memories of adolescence.

Paul Lavau: “I have strong memories of the mix of emotions that clashed inside me at the end of adolescence, when I was leaving childhood behind and trying to become an adult. How difficult it was to communicate with each other, even between close friends.
 

“We’ve used a mixture of techniques to explore new ways of fusing reality and imagination, film and CG, playing with boundaries, so that technique is no longer an issue, and we can tell our stories in an even freer way.”

 
“It’s this feeling that I wanted to portray in this series. Each a portrait of a character that depicts one of the emotions we experience so intensely at the end of adolescence. It’s in the juxtaposition of these snapshots, when joy and sorrow intermingle, that the heart of this series lies.

“We’ve used a mixture of techniques to explore new ways of fusing reality and imagination, film and CG, playing with boundaries, so that technique is no longer an issue, and we can tell our stories in an even freer way.”
 
 

 
Production: Wizz
Director: Paul Lavau
Producer: Matthieu Poirier, Amanda Stubbs, Claire Madigan, Julie Bellemare
Rigging: Hadrien Farre
Photographer: Jonathan Breuer
Motion Designer: Yewth
Motion Graphics: Valentin Campagne, Nour Alexandre, Elsa Schackis Cassel, Milan Losevic, Daiana Migale
Modeling: Jules Marcel, Margot de Susanne d’Epinay, Fulcheri Matthieu
Lighting: Jonathan Breuer, Olivier Osotimehin, Jules Marcel, Margot de Susanne d’Epinay
Designer: Julien Vallet
Director of Photography: Bertrand Marin
Camera Operator: Valentine Pena
Lighting: Neils Monloup
Line Producer: Armelle Ponzio
Production Manager: Margaux Pierrefiche

Post/VFX: Wizz
CG Supervisor: Hugo Garnier
3D Animation: Ruben Cohen, Paul Lavau
Compositing: Ewald Aloeboetoe, Vincent Goy, Benjamin Laborde
VFX Artist: Fulcheri Matthieu
Editor: Emma Robin

Music/Sound: ELSE
Music/Sound: Studios O’Bahamas
Sound Designer: Marine Pigeon