00:00:00: This style comes from some shorts I did before Pixar.

00:00:03: And this style came because there was a wish to go very fast in animation and being thick, not finishing all the stuff makes me going very fast.

00:00:14: Thanks for these techniques.

00:00:15: i could achieve lot of things.

00:00:16: that would be precise even though it's rough on details expressions... ...and I thought It is good to try again To improve it Because now there were watercolors.

00:00:29: this movie I needed to be much more precise on different things but i wanted to keep this idea not to spend time to clean the drawings,to do lots of drawings.

00:00:38: The movement is not always super fluid in this movie and it's just because i made some choice not to spent too many times redrawing and redraw again... It's Android but on computer so its on a tablet.

00:00:49: Ideally would have like to do an on-frame machine Chinese anchor.

00:00:52: But uh..I did all research by this way.

00:00:55: ,but when you come into production animation And do, redo and go on the tablet.

00:01:01: But the process is exactly same as if I had done it with paper.

00:01:05: You

00:01:06: have a very specific color palette.

00:01:07: you use lot of white A lot yellow tones.

00:01:10: What does that mean for you these colors?

00:01:11: The most important to me Is what we call reserve.

00:01:15: Reserve means where We didn't put the colour.

00:01:18: When you do watercolour It works well.

00:01:22: If not full the entire page Of colour.

00:01:25: Its always good To have some right.

00:01:27: By this way I could have some very nice contrast and color shape.

00:01:30: that was like splitting the character in two because there is this white emptiness.

00:01:35: It's supposed to be a sun, but the shadow was with colors.

00:01:39: This is something i wanted Because watercolor can be very naive if you start painting like very clean Like your child would do not going through the line or above The line.

00:01:50: And uh...I thought it was interesting To work the light With an emptiness Melting, there is the thing that are obvious.

00:02:00: I experiment having a corset and my parents were of my ten years old where we're farming.

00:02:05: it was exactly The one you see in the movie.

00:02:08: but i added this And i really think so This Is a cheat.

00:02:12: You barely have some corsets with That.

00:02:14: But i wanted to Seat.

00:02:15: Physically It Was A good way To show the Avicap And also to Have Some Funny Thing Because If We Do That You Can.

00:02:22: There's A Burlesque Aspect Play With The File Which Cannot Move Your Neck.

00:02:25: It's funny because there is a French movie, which is very funny.

00:02:29: Sometimes it's funny to have this stuff and I like the feeling that people are laughing about these guys but you're a bit ashamed to laugh at them.

00:02:38: That point where they have a weakness when you transform into strength And i liked that very much.

00:02:43: Strength in their way will move on different things Like changing his ways of thinking Trying to talk with his father or trying to make him react.

00:02:55: this kind of power we don't know if it's power or not he has at the end.

00:02:58: all through the movie.

00:02:59: i like that very much.

00:03:00: you focus

00:03:01: on a father-son relationship mostly and yourself have become a father some time ago?

00:03:06: And would you like to talk about the influence they had over development of the story ?

00:03:10: I guess there is bit of the father in me more than maybe sometimes the kids itself.I hope,i'm different father now.

00:03:16: That true ,that these movies came when I got my two kids .

00:03:19: I felt high experiments enough thing as a son was kid to say, well I can do something with that because i got the two points of view even though the movie is really focused on Tristan.

00:03:30: what was more important for me it's talk about those fathers at a time weren't very used to educate kids and were uncomfortable talking about their feelings.

00:03:42: Really difficult!

00:03:43: To me it was hard finding you outside your family somehow but being an artist...I wasn´t necessarily dreaming to work there But I thought he was so exciting proposal I couldn't refuse and i hadn't been at the time in US never.

00:03:58: so,i said well enough to experiment that.

00:04:00: And honestly ,I learned a lot of that.

00:04:03: but I was animator really technical .

00:04:05: I could feel it was tough to get.

00:04:07: uh...the spirit of the American people.

00:04:10: ...the way they behave.

00:04:11: ..the culture itself.

00:04:13: So.. I couln't go into storyboard.... I coudnt'go more creative stuff !

00:04:17: I was kind-of locked.

00:04:17: ....and I need back to France if want do some directions.

00:04:23: Asterix which was a much higher financial one than the corset, The Iron Boy.

00:04:28: The method as I said...I think because sometimes they have so much money They're losing themselves in their money Because there we do that we don't.

00:04:35: maybe you know when your kind of You have to be careful with that With the money?

00:04:39: You try to find ways To reach what he wants.

00:04:41: Well this movie is.

00:04:42: it's a good example.

00:04:43: You know i knew That I didn't want some money because if had lot Of money then I would Have a lot of production too please and I did not Want that for this book.

00:04:52: Because of that, I had to find ways to go fast with the animation and style finally come up because of it.

00:04:56: Would you

00:04:57: like to talk about a theme or music?

00:04:59: And instrumentalization in this film... Music becomes especially classical for young boys.

00:05:05: I'm not sure if he's a fan himself but he can be fine on his own.

00:05:10: Most important is that I took the organ for scripts which at first was kind of playing piano.

00:05:18: But i thought they were so easy soundtrack and there is like something little bit bourgeois, maybe more urban than the countryside to me.

00:05:28: And I thought that at point every village has a church in which it's always an organ.

00:05:35: so i said you know where?

00:05:36: It's easier reach this kind of instrument because here they are very close by!

00:05:42: That why I came to The Organ plus all the mechanic aspect with his corset.

00:05:48: everything was mechanical.

00:05:50: feeling all these points.

00:05:52: and then when I got this organ, i said well the organ is so difficult like because it's not an easy instrument.

00:05:59: It's very loud can do some new nuances.

00:06:02: you can't say piano or piano it's really difficult to play!

00:06:06: And then I said Well...I need to bring up some voice on that.

00:06:10: and the requiem came to me quickly.

00:06:12: but a funny thing was that all of religious stuff wasn't necessarily here before.

00:06:20: I was very concerned about the transformation.

00:06:22: There were a lot of stuff regarding this subject, so i didn't want to say well... ...I'm gonna do another stuff like that.

00:06:27: So I really put these issues a little bit backwards.

00:06:31: My story is more Christophe and then there's all this environment moving And at end it still much better but its only most time from Christophan of you.

00:06:41: But yeah!

00:06:41: This something experimented as you see area where.. ..i used to live in which is La Bosse Superflat, like in the Netherlands.

00:06:50: Like one line and that's it.

00:06:52: And because everything has been made for productivism.

00:06:58: So I wanted to talk about this.

00:06:59: Sometimes i think It comes from the comic books.

00:07:02: Unnecessary scene was coming From a book.

00:07:05: When you do that style There is a little bit of sample.

00:07:08: You go very fast with a few lines You got stuff.

00:07:12: The thing also sometimes In two-day animation We are kind of stuck With Disney animation, you know which demands a lot of effort colors and stuff And we want to go fast.

00:07:23: I'm not going through the cliches or acting like they've done all the time.

00:07:28: This style allows us to do differently.

00:07:31: then it goes faster cheaper.

00:07:33: We'll right to the essential.

00:07:36: when you look at even some very big movie like spider-verse You can feel its still three D. but that's are not very pleased with this aspect.

00:07:43: They want to hide each other Which makes them beautiful things But is really really demanding, I mean the process is like a nightmare and it costs so much.

00:07:51: i like when the technique is very simple And to me, two-D animation is so easy.

00:07:57: It's really easy to explain how you do a process To someone who doesn't know animation in Two-D.

00:08:01: When we want talk about three-D Animation its' really complicated because there are SO many steps Its lot of carbon calculators...it's huge!

00:08:10: It's complex and most times You have to solve some technical issues instead of stories.

00:08:16: That's my point of view.

00:08:17: So I prefer to do and that is good, maybe with the IM and now today it may be a little bit more harder to copy in a way.

00:08:26: Just

00:08:26: follow up on that.

00:08:27: are you worried about rise of AI?

00:08:28: And all the animation and images that come out?

00:08:31: Yes!

00:08:32: i don't like very much...i'm not using it..I kind of want to hear or use it even but im not doing chattypity anymore.

00:08:41: I am concerned because Im not technically modern guy.

00:08:45: I'm concerned because most of the thing is, i feel that we're gonna lose as a knowledge.

00:08:50: It feels like in one generation Mankind was going to loose some old backgrounds.

00:08:56: A lot people.

00:08:57: they learn for four years.

00:08:59: They have some huge skills and those skills.

00:09:02: today you say...I want something like this.

00:09:04: style it comes.

00:09:05: How are these guys gonna be able to work?

00:09:07: When their gonna die or when there gonna stop?

00:09:09: who's gonna know how we can draw?

00:09:12: So im really concern about that.

00:09:13: Maybe Im not very progressive kind of scare off what's going on.

00:09:17: It is like when you build cars, and not building it You just check the robots to do a good thing.

00:09:22: And that says.

00:09:23: some people say well we're gonna have still some work but The words are gonna be super fucking boring.

00:09:28: I think so.

00:09:28: So Steph this is very french.

00:09:30: This is totally French.

00:09:31: i've tried To put in US.

00:09:34: They weren't getting that.

00:09:35: It funny how for us its so easy to understand.

00:09:38: For other peoples they said What was he doing here?

00:09:42: When im putting it back?

00:09:44: Also, I like this answer.

00:09:46: We were using that a lot.

00:09:48: This means we don't know doesn't care?

00:09:50: Do you

00:09:51: work on new film at the moment?

00:09:52: A new animation program?

00:09:53: Yes!

00:09:55: Before the course set i was working on more a little bit.

00:09:57: Go back to CGI animation and more entertaining.

00:10:00: But it's kind of funny movie I worked on And should start...I'm gonna be half-time on it To work on more personal projects.

00:10:09: I still have a little idea but I would really like go back.

00:10:13: comeback to the animation after this one.