Behind the scenes
The Ottoman is a 10-minute animated short with a visual design inspired by the works of Jean "Moebius" Girard, Jake Parker, Josh Middleton 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 Direction - Bret Bays
- Art Direction - Matt Evans
- Animation - Dhar Jabouri, Matthew Krick, Derek Osborne, Isai Calderon, Adam Sanchez, Laura Craig
- Rigging - Bret Bays, Charles Wardlaw, Orestis Konstantinidis
- 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
- Costume/armor/prop designs - David Ward, Sergey Popov
- Modeling - David Alvarez, Gary Abrehart, Sandi Dolšak, Magne Lauritzen, Michael Marcondes, Jasper Hesseling, Steve Pointon, Toby Humphrey
- Pre-visualization - Andy Lefton, Matthew Krick, Bret Bays, Lauri Manninen, Gavin Reed
- Script supervision - Stuart Rogers