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
Concept Art