An absolutely gorgeous animation about an 1800s Arctic expedition

This is Longway North , a moving picture pilotfrom France ’s Sacrebleu Productions and director Rémi Chayé , who worked on The Secret of Kells . The aliveness squad assembled this short film as a slant for a long production that should hopefully be out in 2014 . Here ’s a abstract :

Sasha , a young Russian aristocratic missy at the end of the nineteenth century , pipe dream of the Great North and pine over Oloukine , her grandfather , a renowned scientist and Arctic IE , who has not returned from his last expedition to conquer the North Pole . He transmitted his location to Sasha which is far from satisfying her parents as they have already arranged for their daughter to marry . She revolts against this destiny , flees and is conclude to going to unite Oloukine a longway north .

[ Sacrebleu ProductionsviaKate Beaton ]