"Djossi" is an ivorian slang word (in Nouchi) meaning “little job” and people doing these hard jobs in the street are called "Djosseurs.” They are too often considered second class citizens but to us and many others, they are true everyday superheroes who fight for their livelihood with dignity and hope. Djossi Heroes are distinctive with the tools that they use to do their work in the streets. According to our character's work and personalities, we will “twist” these tools that usually represent their struggle into a "superhero" symbol of pride and power. DJOSSI HEROES is a 15 minute short film documentary mixing live action, VFX, 2D and 3D animation to honor these brave women and men.
The most stressful week of our entire STL adventure. We felt like it was the beginning when we were just days away from turning in a teaser and a video pitch. We had been working in synergy, pulling all-nighters. With only a fe...
Week 8 was rather busy for the 2D animation of the jossi hero project ... Nandy had to finish all the sketches of the animated sequences so that our teaser could be delivered on time. With the work on the side it was hot, but a...
We started and finalized the editing and shared with the mentors. The feedback was very encouraging, informative and constructive. The mentors were again very helpful as always. Vani helped us to structure the teaser script bet...
Beginning of the editing. We started the derushage and then we focused on the interview of our characters. We extracted the interview and kept all the things that Salimata said and subtitled the video in English. The goal was t...
This week was quite difficult. We did not have a Masterclass with Sonja Christopher. She gave us some great tips on how to use knots to bring more realism to our pond modeling. Thursday was quite an eventful day. We started fil...
Today is Wednesday and it's time for our WEEK IN REVIEW. A long week during which we had 5 meetings with our mentors. We learned as always. Week 04 in the STL adventure was the week of TESTS: where to shoot, what to shoot, how...
The week started with a session with Kara from DNEG, in which she showed us how to draw a production pipeline (even if we haven't finished ours yet). She helped us with our planning, she gave us some advices to improve it. F...
During this week we went a bit more into our subject. It was time to show even more. Our week was marked by the session with all our mentors together, it was great! During this week we received the essential information that...
During our first week with the THU team, the mentors and the other finalists, we discovered a lot of tools and received a lot of information. A little under pressure because we were discovering a new world but we were able to g...