I worked in the puppet Department

Workshop with the puppeteer Yaya Coulibali and his company Sogolon
Bamako, Mali
Conception and realisation of Mr Baba with the materials useful in the « Mali life style ».

leather, calabash, wire, rubber inner tube, Moussa’s hair…

Mr Baba

work in progress, Baba’s face, wire and calabash

At the workshop, working on traditionnal puppet

4 months later, Baba with Argentinian puppeteers, Buenos Aires

Puppet designer in collaboration with Ria and Carla

material: foam, wire, fabric

photo of the work in progress

Employed as a puppet designer

material: bamboo, float, foam, fabrics

In the countryside in the middle of nowhere. An isolated house next to a solitary, straight road. A child is sitting on a mile stone. He is waiting. He knows a car is going to come and he knows what he will have to do.

With the production designer, we decorated, painted and rebuilt parts of the interior of an abandoned building so it could be used as the set for this film. We also changed the layout of the garden.

Yvan is a 40 year old living an isolated life in the countryside. One rainy day, Yvan stumbles across a body which seems to have come from nowhere. Confused by this, he begins to encounter further unexplained occurances causing him to become more and more unnerved. Step by step the situation becomes irreversible.

We built the set of Yvan’s house in an abandoned house. The building itself however was in an extremely poor condition. The exterior, for example, was very over grown and undergrowth had even begun to grow inside the house and basic things such as window frames and doors were missing from the property. So even before we could begin to think about decorating and making props for Yvan’s living room, bedroom, and workshop, we had to do a significant ammount of work just to achieve a blank canvas on which we could start building the universe in which Yvan occupied.

The last three pictures (see above) are of what the house looked like before we started

Chloe, a 10 month old baby and her father are traveling by train. This journey is the first time both Chloe and her father have been together alone and more importantly the journey is an opportunity for Chloe’s dad to really bond with his daughter and to discover what she is really like.

I primarily made the props for this production like the luggage, some with armatures inside, however we also made several models of the train compartment, seats and hallway as well as the vending machine.

This short film mixe three techniques: traditional animation, 3D animation and stop motion animation. I designed and built the set of the desert and I was involved in assisting the puppet designer to fabricate the puppet.

models

photography