Behind the scenes
The Ottoman is an 8-minute animated short with a visual design inspired by the works of Jean "Moebius" Girard, Jake Parker, Pascal Blanché and many others. The production is being developed using Cinema4D and a team of artists from around the world.
The Team
- Story and Direction - Mike Stamm
- Animation Direction - Dimos Vrysellas
- Technical Assistance - Charles Wardlaw
- Art Direction - Matt Evans
- Character designs and modeling - Jim Talbot
- Mecha designs - Matt Evans, Dermot Walshe, Roger Oda, David Ward, Justin Oaksford
- Environment designs - Vincent Morin, Dimitri Avramoglou, Goran Delic, Randall Whiteis
- Costume/armor/prop designs - David Ward, Sergey Popov
- Storyboards - Ian Cherry, Victor Lopez, Davin Cheng, David Ward
- Modeling - Sandi Dolšak, Michael Marcondes, David Alvarez, Jasper Hesseling, Magne Lauritzen, Steve Pointon, Gary Abrehart, Toby Humphrey
- Rigging - Bret Bays, Orestis Konstantinidis
- Pre-visualization - Andy Lefton, Matthew Krick, Bret Bays, Lauri Manninen, Gavin Reed
- Script supervision - Stuart Rogers
- Language supervision - Dhar Jabouri
