Animation Artifacts &commercial animation &Story & Storyboards &Title sequences 30 Jan 2012 05:49 am
John Wilson/Fine Art Films – part 4
- This is the second half of the storyboard John Wilson created for the Mirisch Corp. A trailer to promote Billy WIlder‘s coming film, Irma La Douce. This was a film about a French prostitute, played by Shirley MacLaine, and a French gendarme, Jack Lemmon. Love blossoms.
As I wrote on part 3, the board comes in 18 pages of three storyboard drawings. Rather than post the sets of three images (and only being able to show them at a smallish size) I’ve taken each individual drawing and have blown them up to see them better on this blog.
Again, these were for a lengthy trailer for the film not the opening credits. The film’s credits do not use animation.
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Here’s a YouTube version of the trailer. Not the brightest quality, but you can see it.
on 30 Jan 2012 at 8:41 am 1.Stephen Macquignon said …
The colors are incredible, it shows you animation is not just for kids
on 30 Jan 2012 at 9:55 am 2.tom hachtman said …
Never saw this before – beautiful. ‘Irma la Douce’ should be an animated feature. Thank you.
on 30 Jan 2012 at 11:01 am 3.Oscar Solis said …
I’ve seen the movie (which I thought was funny), but never the trailer (which was fun). As I was watching this I had the following thought : what studio nowadays would have the imagination or guts to to advertise an upcoming film like this?
I couldn’t think of one.
on 30 Jan 2012 at 12:12 pm 4.Tom said …
Loved the trailer. What makes me sad is how uncreative and unwhimsical movie trailers, and, actually, movies themselves, are these days.
on 30 Jan 2012 at 10:43 pm 5.Dan Haskett said …
Thanks so much, Mike. Those lovely boards remind me of why I got into animation in the first place. Very inspiring.
on 31 Jan 2012 at 5:42 pm 6.J,J. Sedelmaier said …
Thanks so much for posting these Michael ! Your “splog” is fantastic !!
on 02 Feb 2012 at 11:43 am 7.Anik said …
Beautiful, engaging and expressive storyboard drawings! But I find most of this is lost in the animation, not only the colors, but it’s hard to keep one’s attention when watching it, too many distracting elements flowing through screen. It also would have been more fun if the animation (being limited as it is) was done a bit more sensitively.
on 02 Feb 2012 at 1:01 pm 8.Michael said …
You hit the nail on the head, Anik. I have to agree with you.
on 19 May 2013 at 3:45 pm 9.Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog said …
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