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I Lived On the Moon
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Enter the fantastical universe of French computer-graphic artist Yannick Puig, where manta rays fly through the air and three-tailed monkeys inhabit the moon. A freelance director who currently lives in Valencia, Spain, where he works at Keytoon Animation Studios, Puig set out to make his latest independent animation "I Live on the Moon" based on the music of French band Kwoon, who in turn, contacted Puig after seeing his last short "Krapooyo," a whimsical CG fable about evolution.
Not only was "I Lived on the Moon" inspired by Kwoon's song -- with its two movements, first calmer and then more fast-paced -- but Puig says he also derived the magical story about a boy and his father visiting the moon from a comic book he painted in the late 1990s.
The concept, he says on his website, was to mix the world of deep sea with deep space. "Two worlds we think so different, but are very close in a lot of ways... the atmosphere, the light, the gravity [and]...stars like bubbles in the sky." He was also inspired by artists like Tim Burton, and Japanese anime guru Hayao Miyazaki and the colors and patterns of both Tibetan and Nepalese art.
To make the film, he used 3Dsmax 8, Photoshop, and AfterEffects (and also plugins for particles and old film effects). "My methodology," he explains, "was at first to cut the 4min30 of the music into different parts. And then I drew the story-board to help me compose plans of cameras." The entire film took about a year to complete.
For more information about "I Lived on the Moon," check out Puig's website.
Yannick Puig
Animation
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Valencia, Spain
