The French – love em or loath em – produce some of the best animation in the world. The inventiveness, diversity and willingness to tackle subjects that American animation won’t. Aside from the perennial South Park that will tackle anything.
In terms of sheer style I’d put the French just behind the Japanese, perhaps this is because Anime and Manga is huge in France and has been for a very long time, IIRC they were the first country outside Japan to get hooked to Anime.
Goblins (Gobelins) is France’s premier animation school and this years crop of graduates have just released their reels and some of them are astounding.
I recommend you subscribe in iTunes and wait for the whole lot to download, watch them in an animation binge then head back to the site and pick up those not on the subscription.
Oddly this came via Kotaku who linked to the Tibet Mario Kart style animation, which you just have to see.
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