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6. Pâtisserie mécanique / Mechanical pastry
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A short movie I made with my friend Joseph. It is based on the poem "Mechanical pastry" by Mac Orlan, a french writer from the early 20th century. I tried to translate it from french :

. "For this mechanical pastry, you need mechanical customers mouths, mechanical stomachs, and mechanical eyes to roll them with satisfaction along the four cardinal directions.
. Staring for too long in front of this shop, where the turbines roll up and down belts ending up to our teeth, we feel overwhelmed by the pressing need of devouring everything around.
. After the brioches, the pies, craquelins and waffles, we'll devour on a rousing air the blonde and plump waitresses ; another bite will gobble up the cooks without hygiene and their pilosity.
. Magnificent teeth will crush the machine itself, and when there will be nothing left to eat, the customers will move away, singing, through the empty and silent funfair, ready to receive the thin rain that, in every revolution, always ends up obtaining the last word."

We drawn the frames in traditional animation using ToomBoom Studio, then we printed them all, coloured them one by one with colour pencils and finally numerised them and mounted them together with the sound.

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  • jacob 7 months ago
    wow Loup this is so cool !
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  • kateopolis 7 months ago
    so cute.

    instead of the time consuming sub-titles, maybe you should just write the poem here, since that's all that's being narrated.
  • Loup Thévenin 7 months ago
    I agree, I'll do it as soon as possible (I wish my english was better, it sounds so great in french !)
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  • Loup Thévenin 7 months ago
    Et voilà !

    Here is the poem, I made my possible to make it look good in english, any help to improve it is welcome !
  • Yahya Abdal-Aziz 6 months ago
    Here are some possible changes:
    For "obtaining the last word", use "having the last word" (it's an idiom). For "pilosity" (a dictionary-only word in my experience, but I love the sound of it!), perhaps "hairiness" would be better understood. And for "traduce" in your comments, please use "translate", because in English to "traduce" is to "betray"! ;-)

    Loup, whatever you do with the translation, you could hardly improve the animation - it's fantastic! Thanks for sharing :-)
  • Loup Thévenin 6 months ago
    Thank you very much for all these advices !
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  • dunkwun 7 months ago
    hahhaha great! i wish you could subtitle it so i could understand while still watching the animation.
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  • Loup Thévenin 7 months ago
    Thank you, maybe I'll upload two versions of it, one subtitled and the other not.
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  • RadarMusicVideos plus 7 months ago
    this might be my problem, but nothing is playing when I hit play. Wanted to let u know in case a problem at your end
  • Loup Thévenin 7 months ago
    This is strange, everything seems to be ok though
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  • [ indelible inc ] 6 months ago
    seriously cool animation
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  • Matthew Martin 6 months ago
    Bonjour Loup. Hey man, just wanted to say, I looked through all your videos here, and you are quite talented. Great ideas to begin with, and executed very well. Great weight on the taffy in this one. I also liked your first one ever, with the animated robot . . that's about where I'm at with my stop-motion experiments. It's a lot of fun. Thanks for making these.
  • Loup Thévenin 6 months ago
    Thanks to you !
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  • Milena Milenic 6 months ago
    wow, i like it!thanks for great 1:03 minutes!
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  • Venechor 6 months ago
    Absolutely love this one, Loup!
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  • Martin de los Eros 6 months ago
    So this is animated poetry? :) it's beautiful! ... "a loop made by Loup" :)
    Amazing work, thank u for sharing!
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