ANIMATED FEED: ESPERO? Directed by Simone Giampaolo, Yifan Hu and Henrik Linnes.

ESPERO? (HOPE?) from Simone Giampaolo on Vimeo.

Graduation film created at the National Centre for Computer Animation in Bournemouth (UK) by Simone Giampaolo, Yifan Hu and Henrik Linnes.

ESPERO? (HOPE?) is a humorous, entertaining but also educational animated comedy which sarcastically shows how Gaia, our planet Earth, met humankind years and years ago, and all the problems which followed. A criticism of our modern society and of the way we've been "evolving" over the centuries. Apart from having a quite original visual style, ESPERO? (HOPE?) is also the very first 3D animated film fully dubbed in Esperanto, a beautiful universal language created over a hundred years ago to foster peace and international understanding between people.

Making of "ESPERO? (HOPE?)": https://vimeo.com/72011634
Official Fecebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/esperohope

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Awards:
• BLUE-ZOO Award for Best Major Project (Bournemouth, UK)

Official Selections:
• MIA Animation Festival 2013 (USA)
• Canterbury Anifest 2013 (UK)
• Offline Film Festival 2013 (Ireland)
• Animation Festival Anima-São (Brazil)
• EcoCup Film Festival (Russia)
• Chitrakatha’13 (India)
• Golden Orchid International Animation Festival (USA)
• Animae Caribe Animation Festival (Caribbean)
• Animax Skopje Fest 2013 (Macedonia)
• Navi Mumbai International Film Festival (India)
• Libelula Festival (Spain)
• Curtain Raiser The Malta Children´s Film Fest
• NOFI World Festival of Student & Non-commercial Films
• Dieciminuti Film Festival (Italy)
• Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital (USA)

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Credits:

SIMONE GIAMPAOLO (http://simonegiampaolo.com/)
~ Director
~ Animator
~ Character Designer
~ Story Artist
~ Producer

YIFAN HU (vimeo.com/yifanhu)
~ Art Director
~ Lighting TD
~ Texture Artist
~ Compositor

HENRIK LINNES (https://vimeo.com/henriklinnes)
~ Technical Director
~ Lead Modeller
~ Animator
~ Problem Solver

ROBERTO ARROBA PIEDRA (http://robertosounds.com/)
~ Music
~ Sound Designer

MARIANA EVLOGIEVA
~ Esperanto translation
~ Dubbing

MARGAUX COUET
~ 2D Visual Effects

PETTER VILBERG
~ Script Editor