The animation team at Shed in Montreal, whose 2020 IGA holiday spot caused many a tear, capture the magic of giving with this sweet stop-motion-style CG project directed by François Hogue about a boy and his teddy bear with a missing ear.

Shed describes the film as taking place “in an unreal world where anything is possible and where the characters are made of wood and felt and the machines are made of cardboard.

“We also worked with AI to brainstorm. The keywords we used: window, Christmas, tree, cyberpunk, robot, machine, photorealistic, etc. From these different images of inspiration, we started to work on the storyboard and concept art.”
 

 
Production: Shed
Director: François Hogue
EP: Renaud Coté
Producer: Anne-Marie Bousquet
Coordinator: Thomas Monneau
CG super: Simon-Pierre Légaré
Storyboard/design: Geraldo Sampaio
Concept: Nicolas Cloutier
Modeler: Cécile Roussel-Dupré, Loïc Mathon, Karine Masson, Sarah Séguin
Textures: Olavos Chagas, Karine Masson, Yu Han Wang
Rigging: Danilo Pinheiro, Saul Almeida, Caio Hidaka, André Rüegger
Grooming: Alicja Cygan
Animator: Patrick Botton, Hannry Cabelo, Aubin Kubiak, Jade Sauvé
FX: Maude Coté, Simon-Pierre Légaré
Lighter/Compositor: Jonathan Chaillot, Laura Gerlier, Mathieu Goulet-Aubin, Jérémy Loiselle-Lefebvre, Alice Lepoutre
Motion: Yoan Boisjoli
Online: Nicolas St-Cyr
Color: Charles-Étienne Pascal

Sound: Studio Lamajeure