Nov 13, 2009
Simply amazing: the above short, “Fumiko’s Confession,” was completely animated by one person, a student known only as “Tete.” Please, studios, give this person some money to produce a series or a film. Via Japan Probe.
Update: The short was actually produced by a team of five — they are listed here (in French). “Tete,” or Hiroyasu Ishida is the director.
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Someone may want to correct my Japanese, but I believe there was actually a crew of 5?
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5?
there’s also credits at the end highlighting the different roles.
very enjoyable though. reminds me a lot of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCnwHAJU9us
again done by students.
^ seems the comments don’t accept Japanese input.
I can’t read the credits, but I just read that on Japan Probe. Maybe only student animated it, and the others are writers, etc.
Ah there’s definitely a director/main guy (Ishida Hiroyasu) but the other 4 make up an animation crew (an extra animator, texturers and a modeler)
guessing this is a French translation:
http://www.catsuka.com/news_detail.php?id=1257707780
Cool, thanks for the link and info. I’ll update the post.