Cinesite's first ever animated short — it's a comic skit about an ill-fated lunar mission — is a viral hit, pushing 2 million YouTube views as it showcases the VFX company's creature-animation skills. The writer-director (and one of the animators) was Alvise Avati; Cinesite Animation Director Eamonn Butler produced.

Credits:

Written and Directed

Alvise Avati



Producer

Eamonn Butler



Executive Producers

Antony Hunt

Courtney Vanderslice-Law

Peter Nagle



VFX Supervisor

Richard Clarke



Art Direction

Jean-David Solon



Concept Art

Andrea de Martis



Modelling 

Grahame Curtis 

Royston Willcocks 



Rigging

Richard Boyle



Animation

Alvise Avati 

Eamonn Butler 

Peter Clayton 

Tom O'Flaherty 

Adam Bailey



Texture Artists

Nicolette Newman 

Gary Newman



FX Animation

Andreas Vrhovsek 

Luke Wilde



Lighting and Compositing

Zave Jackson 

Nikos Gatos 

Jonathan Vuillemin 

Dan Harrod 

Joel Bodin

Jason Summersgill



Editorial Post Production and Sound Design

William Marshall-Wilkinson 

Christopher Learmonth



Pipeline 

Ronald Siy 

Alexander Savenko



Post Production and Sound Design

Molinare 



Special Thanks

Dan Pettipher

Caroline Garrett

Helen Moody

Michele Sciolette

Duncan Rodger

Giuseppe Chisari

Alessandro Cangelosi

Pierpaolo Navarini

Mirco Paolini

Mario Aquaro