DAVINCI RESOLVE STUDIO POWERS ANIMATED FEATURE ORDURES

  Blackmagic Cloud enabled multi team   collaboration for the hybrid stop motion and live action film.

Manchester, United Kingdom - Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - Blackmagic Design today announced that “Ordures,” a new stop motion and live action hybrid film, relied on DaVinci Resolve Studio and Blackmagic Cloud to streamline post production workflows and connect teams working across France.

Directed by Foliascope and produced for broadcaster ARTE in collaboration with Darjeeling, Inthebox and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, the 48 minute environmental film follows Gobi, a disposable cup searching for his owner while addressing themes of waste and sustainability. Nicolas Flory, Artistic and Technical Director at Foliascope, served as the film’s supervising editor.

Using DaVinci Resolve Studio and Blackmagic Cloud, Foliascope coordinated a live action unit in Paris (Darjeeling), a stop motion and live action team in Valence, and a VFX team in Annecy (Inthebox). Together, they combined photorealistic live action with stop motion animation.

“Blackmagic Cloud was crucial to the production, especially for remote collaboration between the director and Foliascope. It also ensured we could share each production phase with the director, DP, colorist, VFX/compositing team and production team,” Flory explained.

“We made a deliberate choice to place Blackmagic Cloud at the center of the creative process for ‘Ordures,’ helping us organize and streamline production. Department heads could track progress daily, and it allowed us to collectively troubleshoot and make technical decisions across live action, animation and postproduction,” he continued.

Flory explained that one of the biggest challenges was delivering a photorealistic blend of live action and stop motion on a television series budget. This constraint required innovative solutions, including designing waterproofed puppet characters that could be animated in challenging real world environments, such as Parisian sewers and aquatic scenes.

Cloud collaboration in DaVinci Resolve Studio helped keep all aspects of the production on track. Live action scenes were shot first, and then edited and pregraded in DaVinci Resolve Studio. “While animation and editorial were happening at Foliascope, the director was still shooting and editing new live action material in Paris. We shared the evolving timeline with the colorist remotely to pregrade the live action base before importing it into Dragonframe for stop motion animation,” Flory explained.

Foliascope relied on DaVinci Resolve Studio and ShotGrid for technical and creative tracking, using Blackmagic Cloud’s Presentation mode for client review sessions and Fusion Studio for shot previsualization and clean up, removing rigs and green screens before final compositing. “We could easily render out and share a timeline or segment to share with anyone in the production team,” noted Flory.

The environmental film has attracted support from organizations including Syctom, Alcome, Gestes Propres and Refashion. “Our goal was to make the trash feel truly alive while serving the story’s environmental message,” Flory noted.

“Blackmagic Cloud really powered the whole production,” he concluded. “By centralizing everything through the cloud, we could collaborate seamlessly and stay on budget and schedule. Honestly, without Blackmagic Cloud connecting everyone, a project like ‘Ordures,’ with teams spread across multiple cities, just wouldn’t have worked.”

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ABOUT BLACKMAGIC DESIGN

Blackmagic Design creates the world’s highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company’s Emmy™ award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk

