SHORT FILM / STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD WINNER

COWS

COWS is an animated short film made at ESMA Lyon, winner of a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2026).
I co-directed and production-managed the film, and worked as a 3D generalist on hero characters and environments.

Role

Co-Director · Production Manager · 3D Generalist

Software

MAYAHOUDINISOLARIS USDSUBSTANCE PAINTERRENDERMANFTRACK

Type

Animated Short Film

Student Academy Award Winner

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2026

My Work on the Film

Robot · Texturing / Shading

Robot hero asset. The Modeling / Rigging has been made by Elio Molinaro and the animation by Jonathan Lally. I made the Lookdev and a couple of USD variants to have lookdev variation on the crowd shots.

COWS ROBOT heroSHOT
COWS ROBOT detailCONCEPT

Baron · Modeling / Lookdev

Baron hero asset. The Rigging has been made by Elio Molinaro and the animation by Jonathan Lally. I made the Lookdev and a couple of USD variants to have lookdev variation on the crowd shots.

Turntable
COWS BARON beauty renderBEAUTY
COWS BARON color passCOLOR PASS

Environments · Modeling / Lookdev

Multiple environment assets. I made the Lookdev and a couple of USD variants to have lookdev variation on the crowd shots especially on the platforms, and of floors. The Artistic Direction was sets made out of real life objects.

COWS ENV final compFINAL COMP
COWS ENV wireframeWIREFRAME
COWS ENV albedoALBEDO
COWS ENV diffuseDIFFUSE
COWS ENV specularSPECULAR
COWS ENV camera asset texturedCAMERA — TEXTURED
COWS ENV camera asset wireframeCAMERA — WIREFRAME
COWS ENV thermostat asset texturedTHERMOSTAT — TEXTURED
COWS ENV thermostat asset wireframeTHERMOSTAT — WIREFRAME

The Team

Crew

Maxence Corriette Elio Molinaro Alexandre Vespuce Eireen Failly Jonathan Lally Valentin Brachet Nicolas Acevedo Ferrate Tanguy Delepine Yulia Nikitina

Interns

Laurianne Chene Mathieu Ygonin Valentine Prat