Another animation from students of Supinfocom, the CG school whose students brought us From the hoop. It is no surprise that this school was ranked number one worldwide by the American magazine 3D World, and this short film is another example of the attention to detail and fast, action-packed cut scenes that they teach.
Created in ten months by Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazières and Fabien Thareau, it boasts matte painting on a grand scale (03:25) and a moving soundtrack to accompany it. The underwater lighting does well to create murky and mysterious waters beneath the oil rig (02:58) with the floating particles adding to the realism. Once the action gets started the audience is hit with fast cut scenes that document the disaster unfolding from different angles, using the shaky-cam and quick zoom techniques (05:48) most familiar in the TV series BattleStar Galactica.
