About - The Animonautes

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We are an animation, motion graphics and video production studio based in Thessaloniki.

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“The animonautes” [digital animated images] studio was formed in 2004 when two animators, Guy Brochard and Evgenia Tiktapanidou decided to join their expertise in 3D animation and digital movie.

Previously, Guy Brochard and Evgenia Tiktapanidou specialised in the production of communication material to support the space industry (European Space Agency – ESA) and the biotechnology sector. As senior animators of the ESA-medialab, they created an extensive and specialised portfolio covering the need of artistic visualisation, reconstruction and explanation in the fields of science and technology.

Part of their work has been broadcasted by TV NEWS programmes of distinctive TV channels (e.g. CNN, BBC, France 2, TV5, Euronews, Discovery Channel, WDR), incorporated in specialised scientific TV productions and has formed an important part of the communication material of the ESA-sciences department (3d animations & 3d illustrations, brochures, posters, website content production).

In October 2004 they relocated in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Selected for a Marie-Curie Fellowship program, Guy Brochard worked as a consultant for the Institute of Informatics and Telematics (ITI) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), and provided R&D services in the fields of 3d modeling and animation for real time/immersive applications.
As freelancer, Eugenia Tiktapanidou created many 2D and 3D animations for video productions, TV adverts and idents.

They decided to concentrate on their passion -the storytelling, particularly for science- and to specialize in the creation of movies for planetarium, museum and stereoscopic cinemas. Along with adverts and TV idents, they contributed to the stereoscopic movie “I reach the light” for the Museum of cinema of Thessaloniki, created several sequences for the Eugenides Planetarium, and directed videos for the dissemination of the weKnowIt european project, before writing and co-producing the 25 minutes fulldome movie “the Earth and me”.

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YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Our Portfolio

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Our services

We bring together many creative disciplines in order to craft and execute your marketing strategies and create compelling content.

3D animation

We create fully 3d animated movies or individually 3d animated sequences for a variety of displays (HD, stereoscopic, fulldome, holographic). We move freely from the infinitely large (space sequences) to the tiniest possible (biotech).

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MEDICAL
TECHNICAL
SCIENTIFIC
SPACE
FULLDOME

Our expertise stays on the medical, scientific and technical fields but we also deliver TV adverts with commercial content.

2D animation

We like to "embroider" our projects with animated graphics as these details can really make the difference. Our animated graphics illustrate accurately and communicate well documented data.

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TV & SOCIAL ADVERTS
TV IDENTS
ANIMATED GRAPHICS
INFOGRAPHICS

We animate logos, maps, texts, digital images as supporting material to a more complex video production or we produce entirely 2d animated movies.

video

We are keen on producing video products of any complexity. We provide a full range of services, from concept, script writing, direction, video recording, image processing... ending with ready-made video solutions.

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DISSEMINATION
PROMOTIONAL
CORPORATE

Over the years we produced a series of dissemination videos for a number of Horizon 2020 projects covering the most diverse subjects. And it is this variety that keeps us curious and creative, trying always to accurately present and at the same time explain each project' specifics. We deliver videos covering these three main needs (dissemination, promotional and corporate) for various disciplines and on multiple languages.

Graphic Design

We are using visual components such as typography, artwork, color, and layout to effectively and attractively transmit messages or information. We focus on the aesthetics of a video, website, poster, flyer or other digital design and we try ...to keep it simple.

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IDENTITY
LOGOS
ILLUSTRATIONS
FLYERS
POSTERS

We try to create and reinforce a strong brand identity on each project we are involved in.

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Contacts

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The Animonautes Team

Over the years we have also worked with many creative professionals on a project basis and we had long cherished these collaborations.

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Evgenia Tiktapanidou (GR)

3d & 2d animator / video editor

1987/1993 . Degree in Law. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece.

1993/1997. ICON Cine and TV Productions, Thessalonki (Greece) :
digital inking and compositing for cell animated cartoons produced by Spicy Toons, Blue Mountain, Les Cartooneurs Associes, Ellipse Animation, Stefi Films.

1998 . Master in Digital FX/3D animation . NCCA/Bournemouth University. England.
“Avalanche”, 3min movie presented in BBC Knowledge 1999.

1998/1999 . Freelancer. Web and graphic design. England.

1999/2003 . ESA Medialab, Noordwijk (The Netherlands) : 2D/3D animation / video editing :
Planck, Herschel, Rosetta, MSG, Integral, SMART, Mars Express movies for the European Space Agency. Axonyx Phenserine movie.

2004-present : the animonautes

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Guy Brochard (F)

3d & 2d animator / video editor

1994 . Diplomed industrial designer, ENSAD (Paris)
1995/96 . French Cultural Center, N’Djamena (Chad) : graphic designer-communication responsible.
1997 . Master in Digital image/3D animation, ENSAD (Paris) “Urban Metis”. 3min movie . presented in Siggraph 1998.
1997 . Renault Design Center (France) : CG environments – 3D animation .
1997/2003 . ESA Medialab, Noordwijk (The Netherlands) : 3D animation / graphic design / video editing.
Mars Express, Leonids, Clusters, Solar Eclipse, INTEGRAL movies for the European Space Agency .
Axonyx-Phenserine movie.
2004/2005 . Institute of Informatics and Telematics (ITI) – Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) :
European Marie-Curie Fellowship program – Consultant, 3D Modeling and animation for interactive & real time applications.
Consultant – 3D Modeling and animation for interactive, real time applications.
Apeiro : Simulation of ancient technology works using Virtual Reality technologies (GSRT-EPAN)
VR@Theatre : Virtual Reality Toolbox for Theater Professionals (GSRT-EPAN)
Computer Game for the Museum of Macedonian Struggle, Thessaloniki.
Computer Game for the Teloglion Foundation of Art, Thessaloniki.
3D scanning and digital reconstruction for The Macedonia-Thrace Folklore and Ethnological Museum, and the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki.