“La Habitación Inclinada” began as a simple project, something that we could embrace with hopes of actually finishing it, after the effort to complete the ten seconds of “The Show Is Going On“.

We quickly became fond of the simple character design that we created inside the good-old SI|3D, during the small breaks at work, so we felt we could add more background to the basic story that we already had. And it slowly became a longer film, and it took much more time to finish than we had expected. But it also became one of my best animation experiences, in which we not only learned a lot about animation, but also about storytelling, camera work, editing and, most importantly, teamwork.

La Habitación Inclinada from pako Bagur on Vimeo.

PAL Quicktime Version HERE (720×576 113.2MB)

The shortfilm was premiered at the “Festival de Sitges“, and even though it didn’t go through all the shortfilm festival circuit, it was nominated for a “Goya” Award by the Spanish Academy of Cinema, but unfortunately we didn’t won. I found this clip in YouTube, from the night of the gala: