Pages from the storyboard.
For Le Lapin de Noël I wanted something as close to traditional animation as possible. All the characters are hand-drawn with pencil on paper. Each frame is then scanned and coloured individually . The backgrounds are done with pencil & watercolours.
Once the characters are coloured and the background scanned, the elements are combined in After Effects to create a shot.
Frames from the walk cycle of a background character. Each one of these is scanned, coloured and set in a sequence to create the walking loop.
The final walk cycle before implementing it into a scene.
Here are some of the backgrounds. Line drawing on one sheet, colours on an other. This allows the retouching of certain colours if needed. For exemple to make sure a building, a sidewalk, or a street is roughly the same colour over multiple shots.