BEST Friend

Hey everybody! Best Friend team will be at
the Viborg Animation Festival this year! 🇩🇰
with Nicholas Olivieri and YI Shen

If you want to meet us here is the plan 😎

Have a nice day!

Hello everybody!

As we promised, here is the part 2 of the “Making of Best Friend”.

This time our co-director Nicholas Olivieri will talk about visual development and character design, and how we achieved all together this style.

Hope you enjoy it 🙂

Thanks again for the support that Gobelins, l'école de l'image - Page officielle and Mediawan are giving us for the realization of these videos!

Making of Best Friend - Part 2: Visual development - (Animation Short Film 2018) Nicholas Olivieri, co-director of "Best Friend", explains the visual development work behind the Annie Awards Winner 2019. The movie: https://youtu.be/j01Hg4...

Hey everyone!

After 1 year, we are finally here to present :

Making of Best Friend - The Story

Filmed and edited by one of co-director YI Shen, this episode he shared where is the idea came from in the early stage and how we completed the story together.

Hope you enjoy it :)

Ps: Thanks to the support from Gobelins, l'école de l'image - Page officielle and Mediawan. More episodes are coming soon!

Making of Best Friend - The Story Shen Yi, one of the directors of Best Friend, explains the personal experience behind the storyline. The movie: https://youtu.be/j01Hg4QJ6NE Other Gobelins g...

Hello everybody!
Here some update with the new festivals selections

ANNIE AWARD FORTY SIX Best Student Film!
With Nicholas Olivieri, Shen Yi, Varun Nair, David Feliu and Juliana de Lucca 💫🏆

Best friend is Staff picked on Vimeo! 💥💥
Happy Holidays to everyone!

Thank you so much Guillermo del Toro
❤️✨🔥

Thanks to Spanky Few for this article!

Best Friends : une drogue pour trouver des amis virtuels - Spanky Few - Culture & Innovation Entre Black Mirror et une bande dessinée d’Adrian Tomine, le court métrage d’animation Best Friends, réalisé par des étudiants de l’école Gobelins à Paris, fait froid dans le dos… Imaginez un monde où l’amitié réelle n’existe plus et où pour avoir le sentiment de faire partie ...

Thank you Stash Magazine!

Beware Your “Best Friend” Addiction Virtual companionship comes at a high price in this animated short film created by five recent animation graduates at GOBELINS in Paris.

Color keys painted by Varun Nair.
Storyboard drawings by YI Shen