Making films. Mutating the process. This is NOT animation. This is CONT animation. Proposals by email only → hello@contanimation.com
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Today we are happy to announce Contanimation TV
Our new short film anthology in partnership with @magnific Originals!
We will be sharing more original stories, new ways of working with AI, and collaborations with amazing artists.
Thanks to the Magnific team for trusting us with the project. 😎
Super excited to share the first chapter soon!
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THE SORROWFUL FIGURE is OUT NOW! ⚔️
What if the giants were real?
The first episode of Contanimation TV takes Don Quixote’s delusion seriously: if he sees giants, we see giants.
Produced by Contanimation Films × @magnific
#MagnificOriginals
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Directed by Guillermo Miranda & Javier De la Chica Soriano de la Chica
Written by Javier De la Chica Soriano de la Chica & Álex Rey
Assistant Director & Storyboard — Víctor Ponce
Art Direction — Javier De la Chica Soriano de la Chica
AI Animation — Javier De la Chica Soriano de la Chica
Music — Carlos Bonito
Editing & Sound — Guillermo Miranda
Assistant Editor — Miguel Galván
Voices — Arturo Liberos & Juan Rabadán
Operations — Mercedes Santalla
Technical consultant — Nekodificador
Producer Executives — Joaquin Cuenca Abela, Jose Florido, Ángela Sarria
Thank you to everyone who put their hands, eyes and hearts into this one.
This is NOT Animation.
This is CONT animation.
#MagnificOriginals
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Que barbaridad lo que se acaba de marcar @Cont_animation con @magnific
La Triste Figura es una obra de arte hecha con cariño, mimo y mucho corazón.
La banda sonora brutal, el diseño de personajes y escenarios súper cuidado, la historia con alma … que bonito Javi & Guille lo que habéis hecho. Enhorabuena @asarria_ por darle alas a esta loca historia 🎥❤️🔥
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This is where Contanimation TV begins.
Contanimation TV is an anthology of shorts about the ways we escape reality.
What better place to start than a loose adaptation of literature's greatest escapist, Don Quixote?
La Triste Figura is our take on a character we love, and one we consider a cornerstone of our own culture and of world literature.
The full story is coming soon to YouTube, follow us to stay tuned.
Watch the trailer now 👇
Madrid gets the newest Magnific Original first
The Sorrowful Figure, episode one of Contanimation TV, with the team who made it on stage, seeing it with a crowd for the first time
→ Sept 23, Sala EQUIS, Madrid
→ Sept 24, Worldwide release
Grab your spot before they're gone
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Contanimation has mutated.
Again.
What started as two directors experimenting with a new way of making films has slowly become something much bigger: an independent studio, a growing body of work, collaborations with people we admire and, increasingly, worlds of our own that we want to build properly.
Somewhere along the way, the old Contanimation stopped looking like the Contanimation we were becoming.
So we contaminated that too.
We created a new identity and developed a new website 👉 contanimation.com/
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We’re currently working on our own original IP. New films and a few things we’ve been keeping behind closed doors for a while.
We are so excited on what's about to come!! You’ll see more of that very soon… 😎
For now, consider this phase one.
Welcome to the new Contanimation.
Hope you like it!
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Making Sincitium
Issue 3: Video & Production
How we combined AI animation, human voice acting, voice design, art direction, and many, many generations to shape the final piece. 👇
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Voices generated directly inside video tools usually come with several issues. The first one is that they tend to feel lifeless. More like voice-over than actual acting.
The second is that the timbre often changes from one shot to another.
And the third is the accent. From one shot to the next, the voice can suddenly jump from Spanish from Spain to Argentinian or Mexican Spanish.
We collaborated with Juan Rabadán, a professional voice actor and dubbing artist we had already worked with on our short film Dale caña.
Juan dubbed the text over the already animated characters, interpreting each one with different nuances, rhythms, and intentions.
The timbre was modified afterwards using ElevenLabs, with voices created from scratch through its Voice Design tool.
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The production, in numbers:
7,500+ generated images
400+ generated videos
100+ generated songs
70 hours of art, animation, and music generation
25 hours of editing
The final cut includes 70 shots.
A huge number of attempts to find the right take, and countless creative decisions to reach the final result.
This is what our timeline looked like after 95 hours of work.
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Making Sincitum
Issue 2: Concept, Idea & Creativity
Our first idea was to create a mystery / neo-western series. Something like The X-Files meets Fargo, set in a remote town somewhere in the United States.
We were exploring what the supernatural element could be, circling around the idea of a kind of surreal cosmic horror. And then Guille suggested bringing it closer to home: to Spain, to a place reminiscent of Las Hurdes.
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