Angelino and Vinz are quietly watching telly when their apartment is suddenly assaulted by section Z7, real urban commando specialized in high-risk interventions.
Mutafukaz: Operation Blackhead is a 7-minute animated trailer. Produced in 2002 by RUN & Yan Blary, this short film won awards in many festivals and was also nominated at the Sundance Festival in 2003.
Technical Card:
Genre: Animation
Year: 2002
Length: 7 minutes
Format: Digital
Language: English
Subtitles: French
Sound: DTS stereo
Software used: 3ds Max, Flash & After Effect
Artistic Director: RUN
2D animation / mapping: RUN + Yuck
3D lead: Yan Blary
Modeling and 3D animation: :
Yan Blary, Joëlle Dupire and Giles Verleyen
Story Board and cut-out: RUN
Operation Blackhead:
- 2002:
- SIGGRAPH (computer graphics & interactive techniques event / San Antonio USA)
- 2003:
- Sundance Festival selection (Salt Lake City, USA)
- Mouviz Festival Best Sci Fi animation short (Nantes, FR)
- Flash festival Best animation price (Centre Pompidou / Paris, FR)
- Rencontres Audio visuelles animation award (international short movie competition /Lille, FR)
- Emma Awards (Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards / London, UK)
- Cracowfilmfestival (International movie compétition / Cracowski, PL)
- Reanimate Festival best animation price (Rotterdam, NL)
- Anima 2003 (international animation festival / Brussels, BEL)
- Cartoons on the Bay (international TV cartoons competition, Positano, IT)
- Fernsehen Macht Schön (International movie festival / Leipzig, GER)
- Festival Cinema Nouvelle Generation (European numeric movie festival / Lyon, FR)
- Anima Mundi (International animation festival of Brazil / Sao Paulo, BRA)
- Flashbang (International design & Flash animation event / Atlanta, USA)
- Cinema Paradize Film Festival (International film festival / Hawai, USA)
- DotMov Festival (International digital film festival / Sapporo, JAP)
