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CGAA One-A-Day: Descendants


Having started as a diploma project at the Institute of Animation, Filmakademie Baden-Werttemberg, "Descendants" is a 14-minute animated short. The two main characters are flowers who grow on the edge of a clearing next to one another. One is old and jaded by a mysterious history -- the other one still young, vivid and curious. The wish to attain the unattainable: something good can evolve from something evil.


To find much more about behind the scenes go here as Heiko van der Scherm and Holger Schoenberger  have uncovered many 'secrets' in preproduction, in story development and design,



then pipeline, rigging .





Also uncovers the processes of animation, lighting, rendering and postproduction.


Descendants has been screened on 36 festivals so far,The film has won 12 international awards so far. Amongst others the "Animago Award for the Best Character", the "Grand Prize of the Tokyo Anime Award" or the "Pulcinella Award for the Best European Production

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