Spring is a 2019 animated fantasy short film directed and written by Andreas Goralczyk and produced by Ton Roosendaal and Francesco Siddi. It is the Blender Institute‘s 12th “open movie”, and was made utilizing the open-source software, Blender.
Spring is the story of a shepherd girl and her dog, who face ancient spirits to continue life. This poetic and visually stunning short film was written and directed by Andy Goralczyk, inspired by his childhood in Germany’s mountains. The Spring team used the development version of Blender 2.80 for the entire production before the software was in official Beta. As for all of Blender’s Open Movies, the production process as a whole and all its source files are being shared on the production platform Blender Cloud.
Director: Andy Goralczyk
Producer: Francesco Siddi
Executive producer: Ton Roosendaal
Music: Torin Borrowdale Sound: Sander Houtman
Concept art: David Revoy
Animation director: Hjalti Hjalmarsson
Modeling and shading: Julien Kaspar
Animation: Ignacio Conesa, Nathan Dillow, Pablo Fournier
Rigging: Juan Pablo Bouza
Lighting and effects: Pablo Vazquez, Sam Van Hulle Software and
Pipeline: Brecht van Lommel, Jacques Lucke, Jeroen Bakker, Sergey Sharybin, Sybren Stüvel, Tobias Johansson
