Graduation movie “As the sun goes down”

Trailer “As the sun goes down”

Co-directed by Ilona Caucal, Inès Fechner, Emma Roussel, Laurine Bocquet, Sarah Robert, Jahnice Laurent & Kévin Vandenbeuck

We follow the journey of a little rabbit scared of the dark who collects fireflies everyday at dusk to bring them back to his burrow. But one night he is thrown into the dark and his fireflies are nowhere to be seen. Forced to face his fears, will he overcome them?

In this short movie, I worked on the scenario alongside my 6 teammates. I then created the storyboard and animatic for the 5'30 minutes short, its credits and the trailer. In parallel I was part of the concept art work.

As for production and post-production, I worked on the modelisation of a character and props. I also participated in the camera layout and the setdresses. Then concluded by doing some compositing and editing.

The movie was first introduced at our Graduation, alongside 27 short movies from our promotion. The jury was composed of renowned professionals of the industry: 3DVF – Progiss / ACM Siggraph / Atlantis / Blizzard / Brunch Studio / Fortiche Production / Illumination MacGuff / In The Box / Locksmith / Mathematic / Menhir FX / Mikros / MPC – The Mill / Nobody Studio / Rodeo FX / Stim Studio / Supamonks / Superprod / TAT / Terminus / TNZPV / Tsunami / Ubisoft / Xilam and in addition : François Briantais & Elisa Carret from Walt Disney Studio but also Philippe Peythieu & Véronique Augereau.

“As the sun goes down” received the third prize from the jury.

This movie was made in a group of 7 through the course of 13 months while finishing our studies at ESMA School in Lyon.