Shave It comes from directors Fernando Maldonado and Jorge Tereso of Bueno Aires, Argentina-based 3dar. The monkey at the center of the film is a stone-faced schemer with an environmentalist agenda. The filmmakers explain:
For us, it’s an ironic reflection about how nature adapts to the human invasion. We found a great inspiration in an Amazonian bird, the Lira, which imitates the sounds it hears in the environment. It does it with such a lack of criticism or judgment that it imitates the other birds singing, the power saws’ noise or the crash of the trees falling in the same way.
The filmmakers push all modes of stylization in this film from a hypersaturated color palette to 2D backgrounds/FX animation mixed in with the computer graphics. The angular monkey is a sight itself, with his shock of wavy electric-blue hair, floating ears, hinged mouth, and mask-like face that makes the stylized animals in DreamWorks’ Madagascar series look like naturalist depictions. All the elements are pulled together with expertise into a fun and attractive package. The development art posted on 3dar’s website gives a small taste of the effort that was invested to explore all the graphic possibilities.
CREDITS
Written and directed by
JORGE TERESO
FERNNADO MALDONADO
Art Direction
MARINA MUÑOZ
Executive production
FEDERICO HELLER
GERMAN HELLER
JORGE TERESO
Graphic design and 2D animation
JULIAN DORADO
3D art
MARTIN BERISSO
JUAN PABLO LANZO
MARCO LOCOCO
SANTIAGO TERESO
FEDERICO CARLINI
Post-production
LUCAS SALVIETTI
Production Assistant
REGINA PORCHIETTI
NATALIA TORIANO
Sound Production
GERMAN HELLER
Music and Foley
JULIEN BEGAULT
CYRILLE MARCHESSEAU
Musical Research
EZEQUIEL BARROS
Animation Direction
FERNANDO MALDONADO
Animation
MARCO LOCOCO
PAULA RAMOS
JORGE TERESO
Rigging
VINCENT SOUZA
MARTIN BERISSO
NAHUEL BELICH
Illumination and Rendering
JORGE TERESO
FEDERICO CARLINI
SANTIAGO TERESO
Creative Support
FEDERICO HELLER
MARINA MUÑOZ
JULIAN DORADO