Love, Death and Robots – Blur Studio

BLUR STUDIO AT ESMA, A FIRST

This was a first for the Californian studio at ESMA. And for this exceptional visit, its representatives – Jérôme Denjean (Supervising Creative Director) and Monica Singh Haley (Head of Human Resources & Recruiting) – chose the Lyon campus to meet with our 4th year CG Animation & FX Master Degree students.

Not just any topic was discussed: the Love, Death and Robots series. This science fiction anthology, produced by the Netflix platform, is a real laboratory dedicated to animation. It is thus on this planetary success that the representatives of Blur Studio stopped for their conference with our students. Indeed, Netflix commissioned the studio to direct this anthology to which many other animation studios have contributed to the realization of episodes. Jérôme Denjean presented the work done on this series as well as some of the secrets of its making.

Afterwards, a time was given to each group of students so that they could present their end-of-studies film and exchange with these professionals on this subject. Some precious advice that the students benefited from a few weeks before the final point of their film.

BLUR STUDIO

Founded in 1994 by Tim Miller in California, Blur Studio has been able to distinguish itself and grow to an international scale. Their business is mainly in video games and the creation of animated content for television or film; whether in the production of special effects, 3D animation and design. We can find the studio in the credits of big productions such as: The legend of Zorro, Avatar, Deadpool, Avengers: the Era of Ultron, Sonic 1 & 2… Several awards have crowned the work of the studio like the Emmy Awards received for the work done on the series Love, Death and Robots.

Image credit: Blur Studio – extract from the episode Jibaro (Love, Death & Robots)