Back in August the italian Disney comics forum Papersera asked its users to draw a celebratory logo for its twentieth anniversary. These were my two submissions. They weren't picked, but it was still fun doing it (congrats to Max Monteduro and Lorenzo De Pretto again)!
This animated short answered a unique question: what would happen if you crossed Caspar David Friedrich's paintings and Monty Python's Holy Grail? Created at MoPA by me, Simon Renoux and Pauline Lisi.
So, I had a 3D exercise where the goal was to recreate in 3D a character from a pre-existing 2D artwork. The only limitation was that I had to choose from the ArtStation Challenge around the theme of Feudal Japan (https://www.artstation.com/challenges/feudal-japan). The original art was created by Servane Altermatt, go check her page on ArtStation (https://www.artstation.com/shaose)! Enjoy!
“Raifort Samurai” is an animated short created at MoPA (Arles) by Pauline Lisi, Alessandro Lamio, Anna Bourgoin, David and Simon Renoux, with a special thanks to Aldo Trousselle.
Somehow the fairy godmother’s magic went wrong and created a very peculiar lackey for Cinderella...
In more seriousness, this was an exercise where we had to create a monster from a classic fairy tale. So I read again Charles Perrault’s Cinderella and I found out that CInderella had lizards transformed into lackeys. Why not make them monstrous?
So, remember John, the film critic from “Dernière Séance”? In earlier drafts he wasn’t meant to be a film critic, but a detective! He was inspired by film noir detectives, with a touch of Dick Tracy in my character research. Still, as we went on with the project our vision of the story and the character changed, so John the critic was born. Enjoy!