Yet again, student animation comes out of nowhere and blows my mind.
According to the description accompanying this video, “Hezarfen is a historical Turkish character. The story takes place in 1632 in Istanbul, where he will attempt the first flight of the human being.”
And wow, what a fantastic attempt – the film, not the actual objectives of the main character.
This has to be seen. Now!
UPDATE: I was a remiss to not include the following credits (as I have been informed by Bora Öztunç in the comments below) so, here goes:
Team Leader / Technical Director
Tolga Ari
Art Director
Romain Blanchet
Lead FX
Chung-Yu Huang
Lead Animator
Rémy Hurlin
Music by:
Yannis Dumoutiers
Sound Design by:
Ozan Kurtulus
[ Animation discovered thanks to the good people at Drawn ]