Small glimpses of new animation ‘The Illusionist’
No, not the new Ed Norton film but rather the latest animated opus from Sylvain Chomet, the writer/director behind the brilliant 'Belleville Rendezvous' AKA 'The Triplets of Belleville'. Chomet is currently working on three new projects at a studio in Edinburgh.
'The illusionist' is apparently based on an original story by influential french filmmaker Jacques Tati about an aging magician who befriends a girl in scotland but can't bear to come clean and tell her that his magic isn't real.
'Barbacoa' is a dark and violent tale of a group of animals who take part in the Paris Commune, a bloody period in France’s revolutionary history.
The Tale of Desperaux will be Chomet's first purely 3D feature and is an adaptation of a french childrens book. The story tells the tale of a mouse named Despereaux, born with a daring heart and romantic spirit who falls desperately in love with the human Princess Pea. His life is bound by chance with her, the king, the rats, a jailer, a dim witted girl, and a cook who makes soup. DiCamillo involves ideas of inner duality (good and evil), abandonment and redemption.
The Storyboard to the left (click to see a bigger version) is a storyboard and frame from 'The Illusionist', the scan is from a copy of esquire, but was grabbed from the 'atomic bear press' blog
The dog in bellville rendezvous. I show it to my kids and every single time it cracks them up… everytime.