2010: Tora Chan has been selected at these Festivals!

• Cartoons on the Bay – in nomination for the “Pulcinella Awards” (Italy)


• Lucas 33International Kinderfestival Frankfurt (Germany)


• Piemonte Movie Festival (Italy)


• Festival di Dervio – prize to the characters (Italy)


• Festival Overlook (Italy)


• Sedicicorto 2010 (Italy)


• Tindirindis (Lituania)


• IV Festival Internazionale De L’Aquila (Italy)


• Red Stick International Animation Festival – Baton Rouge (Louisiana)


• Animateka – Europeqn Student Panorama (Slovenia)


• Kiskakas (Hungary)

Story board

At work... more or less

Still frames

Credits

Production manager: Claudia Cutrì

Subject: Claudia Cutrì

Screenplay: Davide Como, Claudia Cutrì, Stefano Echise, Valerio Gori

Storyboard: Claudia Cutrì

Character design: Claudia Cutrì, Stefano Echise

Environment design: Davide Como

2d animation: Valerio Gori

3d animation: Davide Como, Claudia Cutrì, Stefano Echise, Valerio Gori

Compositing: Davide Como

VFX: Valerio Gori

Technical director: Davide Como

3d modeling - characters: Davide Como, Stefano Echise

3d lighting: Davide Como

Character setup: Stefano Echise

Texturing: Claudia Cutrì, Stefano Echise

Shading: Stefano Echise

3d modeling - environment: Valerio Gori

3d modeling - props: Stefano Echise

Story sketch: Valerio Gori

2d backgrounds: Davide Como

Editing: Valerio Gori

Synopsis

Kyoto, Japan. It’s a fresh morning in a Zen monastery.

An old monk and Tora Chan, a tabby cat, quarrel for the sand expanse in the garden:

The first to make a Zen drawing out of it, the second because she mistook it for a giant litter.

The blunt cat neutralizes every attempt of the monk to send her away from his work; the fight becomes an unavoidable consequence, and in a sequence of gags the two devastate the drawing on the sand so meticulously tended by the monk.

Pre-production Stuff