ANIMATED FILM

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  • Animated short for Cartoon Network france
  • TITLE: Les frères Cerise / The cherry brothers
  • Director: Myriam Obin
  • Year of creation: 2017
  • School: Gobelins, L’école de l’image

A cartoon made in collaboration with 35 students of Gobelin visual arts & animation school of France, as part of Cartoon network’s Imagination Studios Competition.

Written and directed by Myriam Obin, Les Frères Cerise (The Cherry Brothers) is based on little Oscar’s winning design, done in the frame of Cartoon Network France‘s 2017 Imagination Studios competition.

Les Frères Cerise follows the adventures of two attached cherry brothers who have completely different personalities, one is an heroic adventurer who wields a sword and the other one has more of a “geeky” and a bit indifferent. The wild and bold cherry-brother is determined to attack the ant-eating creature who holds desperate helpless tiny ants under his captivity, also taking away the book from the geek-brother.

Group Animation

Short film directed for a project on the theme “Love”, by four students of GOBELINS “Character animation and animated film” and “Master of Arts”
They worked for 5 months (from January to May). This exercise was meant to learn the 3D pipeline on Maya.

Directing

Animation Film, Canada, QUEBEC

  • TITLE: Eloise little dreamer; Éloïse, petite rêveuse 
  • Director: Myriam Obin
  • Time: 4 minutes
  • Genre: Fantastic, Political
  • Medium: Hand drawn animation film
  • Year of creation: 2014-2015
  • University: Concordia, (Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema) 

 Synopsis:  

During a joyful parade, a little girl follows her older sister without her permission. At first, she is amazed by the ambiance but the more she gets herself lost and the more she sees strange things happening around her.

WINNER of Polska-free-25 Critic

Visual art competition offered by the embassy of Poland in Montréal for the fall of the Berlin wall anniversary

Jury member Brain Foss summarized the jury’s decision: The jury found Myriam Obin’s short animated film, Éloise, petite rêveuse / little dreamer, to be a mature and thoughtful meditation on the theme of political engagement and activism during the transition from the People’s Republic of Poland to the Polish Third Republic. The film relies on a relatively naïve approach (seeing adult events through the eyes of a little girl), but never treats its child protagonist in a condescending way. The film is also visually sophisticated, with several dramatically effective visual transformations and puns that reinforce the complexity of the events that Éloise is observing and that she is attempting to understand. As a result of these mutually reinforcing qualities, the film held the attention of the jury members as it unfolded its subtle but powerful narrative of the convoluted, fraught, and sometimes self-contradictory processes that underscored Poland’s path toward freedom. In so doing, it also transcends the specifics of recent Polish history (its principal narrative), and addresses universal themes of social activism.

Credits:

  • Director and animator: Myriam Obin
  • Music Composer: Vincent L. Pratte
  • Sound Design: Emily Laliberté
  • Musician:  Audrey G. Perrault and Julie Cadorette
  • Sound mixing: Philippe Bouvrette
  • Special Thanks: Michèle Labelle

  • TITLE: Daydreamer ; Ballerina 
  • Director: Myriam Obin
  • Time: 01:11 minutes
  • Genre: Fantastic,
  • Medium: Hand drawn pastel
  • Year of creation: 2014-2015
  • University: Concordia, (Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema) 

under the camera frame by frame. This short film was produced with no script in 4 days. The technic was pastel drawing on a single piece of paper. The process was by erasing and redrawing on straight ahead animation.

  • TITLE: The blind man, L’homme aveugle
  • Director: Myriam Obin
  • Time: 01 minutes
  • Genre: Fantastic,
  • Medium: Hand drawn animation film 
  • Year of creation: 2013-2014
  • University: Concordia, (Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema) 

The Blind man is a short film  about Prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder where the ability to recognize faces is impaired. The narrator explains how it felt to not recognize the people he know.

Made with Ink on paper only, no digital.

  • TITLE: The 14th night; La 14 eim nuit
  • Director: Myriam Obin
  • Time: 01 minutes
  • Genre: Fantastic,
  • Medium: Hand drawn animation film under camera
  • Year of creation: 2012-2013
  • University: Concordia, (Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema) 

Behold my very first animated film all made with an Old camera Oxberry and not digital. I still have the 16 mm at home. My university went all digital the very next year.

“The 14th night” is an adaptation of a short chapter from the book 1001 nights. In the chapter, a young princess fights a demon with her magic. They shape-shift during the battle until someone lose. I used shadow figure for aesthetic as a reference to “ the adventure of prince Ashmed”