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Some humans from #Ripaille. 

In the early stages, the humans were as pushed as the monsters (like in the second picture), but in order to differentiate the two groups, we toned them down a bit. I worked closely with JoelandMarion on those. 

And I’m also making a little cameo close to the end of the film:)

Jeanne D’Arc - probably the character in #Ripaille that I spent the longest time figuring out, mostly cause I also tested different design styles through her.

We wanted to make sure that the flat style can make sense when the characters do something complex in space, and even the simple turnaround above took me some thinking to figure out.  

Also I’d take any opportunity to animate a pole dance (special thanks:”Pour it up” by Rihanna). 

Here are some of the original character designs I made for the Annecy short #Ripaille! 

The challenge was redesigning characters from medieval illustrations and creating a graphic and contemporary style that suited the overall concept of the film which was ancient meets modern. 

The ones I had most fun designing (and everyone’s favorite) were the nun and the dicktree (we didn’t make up anything! Look at the references!

Along with me in the Character design team I had the wondeful    @marionoir & @joel-durand

arthurchaumay:

Our Annecy opening short film #Ripaille is now available! I co-directed this film with the amazing @marionoir, @joel-durand,@mariposa-nocturna,@yonatantaland@mairithetree at Gobelins. It was a hard but huge journey for all of us. I hope you enjoy it!

Here’s my second big project for this year!
It’s an opening for Annecy Animation Festival that I’ve made with a group of talented guys from gobelins (see names+links above).
I was in charge of the character design style and most character designs.
More behind the scenes stuff to come soon!
Enjoy #Ripaille.

OH MY! <3

I’ve just finished working on my second big project for this year (more to come) and now I can start posting some behind the scenes stuff from “Nightmare in the Morning”.

Here’s a rough animation test I’ve done in an early stage of the production. The dance style I went for was Voguing, which is a dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1980s. I learned a lot from this test and I feel like the moves in the final film are more true to the style.

Two clips that I can say I studies carefully were the voguing chapter in “Paris is Burning” and the brilliant music video for Glass & Patron  by FKA twigs. But there were a lot of other references and self recording..

For the test I used “Cover Girl” by RuPaul <3

Drawing these 3 in a pretty early stage of the production really helped me defining the main character. The 2nd look even made it to the final. 

I drew these in a format of magazines to push the concept a little more.

It’s an androgynous character (all the characters in the films are) but I refer to her as - she. Her name can’t really be pronounced by humans but the closest would sound like: XZOÉT.

But it’s only been a few days since it was uploaded!? 

Thanks so much for all of this love <3

My 3rd year film at CalArts, “Nightmare in the Morning” is a music video about the way I feel in the morning.
It was an honor to work with the amazing talents who created the original song for it:
Song writer: Abby Lyons
Singer: Natalie Perez
Music production: Daniel Markovich 
This film would have been impossible to make without the support of the people of Gobelins, CalArts and from back home <3

I haven’t posted my animation reel since I started at CalArts,
but now might be a good time:)