For that french show, it might be "
Arzak Rhapsody", inspired by
Jean Giraud, aka Moëbius, work. He actually drawn the graphics used for the serie. His cartoons were scanned with high resolution to be transformed in vectors and used in flash. They used this process in order to keep his style for the lines instead of trying to make a copy by other animators.
The original story was a famous comic book called "
Arzach".
You can see some samples here
http://manocorto.free.fr/arzach.htm
There was no dialogues in the original, they added a narration in the serie.
The promotion site is down
http://www.arzakrhapsody.com/ and the first episode is no more available online.
But you can see the n°6 here :http://commeaucinema.france2.fr/cac_histcourtes_article.php3?id_article=440
with realmedia player:
http://commeaucinema.france2.fr/IMG/ram/ex.ram
It is called "Monkey heart". The stories are very oneirics (not sure of this word, maybe dream like is the right translation)
There are 14 episodes 3 minutes long so about 40 minutes to watch.
I found that 5 episodes were aired on tv the 30 december 2003, the rest must have been broadcast during 2004, but I've never seen them on TV.
I discovered the serie on
DVD in 2004, it cost only 6 euros at the time.
The french DVD has no subtitles.
There is a spanish one with spanish subtitles.
some sreenshots of the DVD:
http://www.devildead.com/indexfilm.php3?FilmID=967
The dvd is credited 2002, that's the year of production.
Strangely there is only a
german article on Wikipedia.
During an
interview the 13 april of 2006, he said that he was working on the script for a long feature film (question 11).
Currently there is "
Avez-vous déjà vu... ?" on the channel 6.
6 episodes here:
http://www.m6.fr/html/evenements/avezvousdejavu/index.shtml
and a few more:
http://www.videohumour.net/videos/avez-vous-deja-vu/1.html
Directed by
Pierre-Alain Bloch, the episodes are short and based on absurd situations.
The goal is to present unusual situations to the audiance. Each show starts with the question "Have you already seen ..."
and ends with "Now, Yes". Some of them don't really need translation.
I didn't thougt to talk about it because it wasn't in english, but I might post it in the
TV Shows section if you think it can be interesting for other people.
I've also noticed that
RV Trouillet presented his teaser.
I'll try to open a topic in the
Feature Films section and to translate his synopsis, because you just see the action in the trailer.
I saw the update of his site last month but I was waiting for the english part to be done before to told you.
For the moment I can't think of other shows done in flash in France, I'll try to search some information about that.
