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