Léo Malaterre - Animation

Short movie for the Olympic games : Rugby

This video is a 10 second animation made for presenting a sport at the Olympic games of Paris 2024. We had to highlight the sport, handisport and diversity.

The music in the video was the official chosen by France Television, we had to take an extract from it.

In this project, my intentions were to create some really dynamic shots, highlighting the actions of this sport. My goal was to maintain fluidity with precise transitions between my plans and avoid cutting the movement.

Firstly, I had to produce a precise storyboard for the movie. It had to be really understandable, and not lose the audience. So I made multiple attempts to find the most effective way to tell my story. While being constrained by the limit of 10 seconds.

Then to create the characters of this film, I sketched some rugby man in action to get used of their shape. Then I designed some character, always trying to keep my designs dynamic.

I did the same with chair rugby, I drew some players, learned the rules of this sport, and then creating character learning how they play with their handicaps and trying to make it believable.

After painting a quick color script, I had to draw the layout first, before animating on it. The colors needed to be bright and make the rugby players readable on it.

Then I had to animate it on TV Paint, processing as usual, but always looking at my staging if it's still good, and keeping good transitions.

Projects for school

These three shots are practices to master some animation basics.

The first shot with Jesper from Klaus was to learn acting and lipsync.

The second one was to animate a pushing character.

And the last with Tigrou was for creating a character hitting a ball.

Personal animation : Wind

This one is a personnal animation I made to learn to control the wind in the clothes of a character.

You can see here a process of this shot, the animation is made on TV Paint and the clean on Harmony.

Personal animation : Cowboy run

Some run animation I made on TV paint

Personal FX animation : Waterfall

This an FX practice animation, I wanted to create a peaceful loop of a waterfall, then I've cleaned it on Tv Paint.

School project : Ma chère Diane

Ma chère Diane is the biggest project I've worked for. On this project I was an Animator, character designer, storyboarder, editor and sound designer. I want to demonstrate my involvement in this project. 

First, here is my reel for the film. My work only concerns animation, not the backgrounds !

Then I can show some developments I've made for this film. Like some storyboard. We chose to portray the violence and chaos of the battlefield in this storyboard from the second sequence. But also the anticipation before a battle, and the fear soldiers may feel during it.

I have some posing boards that helped shape the design of the characters in our movie. We wanted semi-realistic characters to have human proportion because we felt it was more right with the serious ambiance of the movie. There is also the expression sheet for the main character.

There is the turn around for Marius. And an animated and colored version of it.

And for finish, I had to make a development of the final render, so I painted a background and insert the characters in it to see if our artistic direction would really work.

Thank you !

I hope you will enjoy my work !