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
Concept Art