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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
French Roast
Fabrice O. Joubert
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In a fancy Parisian café of the 1960s, an uptight businessman is about to pay the check when he finds out that he’s lost his wallet. To save time he decides to order more coffee …
“French Roast” is a character-driven short animated film. With no dialog, the story is told through character animation, music and sound. Staging is made of a single frontal master shot with a big mirror in the background to create the equivalent of a reverse shot. The artistic challenge was to translate the very graphic style of the original drawings.
“French Roast” is a character-driven short animated film. With no dialog, the story is told through character animation, music and sound. Staging is made of a single frontal master shot with a big mirror in the background to create the equivalent of a reverse shot. The artistic challenge was to translate the very graphic style of the original drawings.
Fabrice Olivier Joubert (FR). Before directing his first CG-animated short film, Fabrice Olivier Joubert built a solid reputation as a traditional and CG animator. From 1997 to 2006, he worked at DreamWorks on "The Prince of Egypt" (1998), "The Road to El Dorado" (2000), "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" (2002), "Sinbad, Legend of the Seven Seas" (2003), "Sharktale" (2004) and "Flushed Away" (2006). In 2005, he animated on the stop-motion feature "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit", directed by Nick Park (Aardman Studios).