Al Dente - A Beautiful Animated Film that Combines Opera and Pasta

Al Dente was presented at the past SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival by the French school Supinfocom. "Al Dente combines opera, pasta, and a knife-wielding chef and the result is another delicious animated short from this prolific school" says Reuters.

"Supinfocom (école SUPérieure d'INFOrmatique de COMmunication, roughly University of Communication Science) is a computer graphics university with campuses in Valenciennes and Arles, France.

Founded in 1988 in Valenciennes, the school offers a five-year course leading to a diploma of digital direction (certified Level I). A second campus in Arles opened in 2000, and the school is preparing to open a new campus in India.

In November 2007, the school was ranked No. 1 worldwide by the American magazine "3D World," with criteria such as the distribution of student films and prizes in festivals around the world" says Wikipedia.


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Oktapodi - Animated Film about 2 Octopi in Love - Winner of 2008 Computer Animation Festival

"SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics (CG) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization says Wikipedia".

This year, the Computer Animation Festival was just held in Los Angeles about a week ago and the Best of Show Award went to Oktapodi, a well-made, really cool French animated short film about two octopi in love as they try to escape from a cook determined to capture them.