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 Supervision - Michael Marcondes, Charles Wardlaw
  • Character designs and modeling - Jim Talbot
  • Additional modeling - Jasper Hesseling
  • Mecha designs - Matt Evans, Dermot Walshe, Roger Oda, David Ward
  • Environment designs - Dimitri Avramoglou, Goran Delic, Randall Whiteis, Vincent Morin
  • Costume designs - David Ward
  • Storyboards - Ian Cherry, Victor Lopez, Davin Cheng, David Ward
  • Rigging - Charles Wardlaw, Orestis Konstantinidis, Bret Bays
  • Pre-visualization - Matthew Krick, Gavin Reed
  • Script supervision - Stuart Rogers
  • Language supervision - Dhar Jabouri
Concept Art