A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE MAKING.

My general visual approach for the film was simplicity. Since it was a children orientated story, I wanted to do something visually quite "graphic" with a bit of naivety. So I tried to go as far as I could to make it look simple and stylish while remining visually coherent or "structured", with the help of Didier Loubat, who did the beautiful character design . That led to characters that were design-driven, a color palette that was restricted to blues and yellows (beside black, white and flesh tones) and backgrounds that were more suggestions then anything else with fading or incomplete outlines.

The same approach had to be taken with the storyboard. As a little challenge to myself, I tried to do the entire film without using any camera moves (just "cuts"). I finaly couldn't go that far. The telescope scenes absolutly needed pans (2) and one particular scene toward the ending was crying out for a zoom-in. But still, that's only three camera moves out of 46 scenes.