Salesman Pete

French animation students (yes... students) continue to push the boundries for cel-shaded CG animation. This trailer for Salesman Pete is the latest example (and among the finest). It also puts to shame the bland indistinguishable visual styling that dominates all mainstream computer animated television series and feature films nowadays.

The film’s directors Anthony Vivien, Marc Bouyer, and Max Loubaresse have a Salesman Pete production blog with pre-production artwork from their film. What's crazy for me is that this is a 3D trailer/demo with some 2D animation elements integrated into it. I'm so used to seeing the opposite; 2D films or TV series that use 3D CGI to model and animate vehicles and ships because it's easier than to do it through traditional animation means. It's interesting to see the reverse effect in this, it works well.
Via Cartoonbrew