The Building (2005)

Le Building, as it is better known, was made in 2005 by five final-year students at Gobelins as an opener for the Annecy festival, and it is still cited as one of the school's best student works. In little more than a minute, a man singing in the shower sets off a chain of slapstick accidents that wrecks his three-story apartment block. Most of it is drawn by hand, with computer-animated pieces such as the bus and the pizza delivery rider blended in so closely that the joins are hard to spot. It won best undergraduate animation at Ottawa, and two of its directors, Pierre Perifel and Olivier Staphylas, went on to DreamWorks. Gobelins hosts it on its YouTube channel.