Thursday, October 31, 2013

Happy Halloween!


That's my friend Pierre Landy in the photo, dressed as the Mad Hatter.
About three years ago, when I had some time on my hands, I brainstormed with Pierre the idea of animating the invitation for his upcoming birthday party in Paris. Pierre is a huge fan of Disney animation, and he especially loves the female villains. After a few discussions I agreed to animate him disguised as three different wicked ladies. He sent me his voice recording and after three weeks of work the invite video was finished.
It was a crazy idea, but a lot of fun to do. Later I took all of the animation drawings to Paris and handed them out as party favors. 

Incidently, way back when I met Pierre, he worked in the legal department of Disneyland Paris for a number of years before moving on, and today he is one of Yahoo's top lawyers.

To be honest with you, this little homemade project went through without a glitch, it gave me the confidence to produce "Mushka".     

This is a piece of affectionate satire, no more, no less.



18 comments:

  1. What about Sarah and Mushka? How's it going?
    You do not write about it for a long time.

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    1. I don't want to reveal too much about Mushka, but things are going very well. The story reel is getting temp sound, and I animated a couple of production scenes. Having a great time!!

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    2. Can I help out with your project? I can do some animation on the computer and I'll send it to you on email.

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  2. Das ist so wunderschön. Handgezeichnete Animationen strahlen auf mich eine Wärme aus, die CG noch immer nicht erreicht. Vielen Dank für das Video.

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  3. Amazing short, Andreas! Someone better tell Tinker Bell to back away from the refrigerator!

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  4. This voice seems vaguely familiar to me... but why??? :))

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  5. You are a genius!!! I love the introduction, it seems you used a multiplane camera. Sorry for the question, did you use software to ensemble the animation with the backgrounds? Thanks for sharing!

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  6. Wonderful! Happy Halloween everyone :D

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  7. Great stuff, Andreas. Good to see this kind of animation these days.

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  8. Love this! The acting is so good Andreas!

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