In case you didn’t catch this, here’s a recent short of ours, Irma’s Car. She began as a kind of fusion between this,
one of my random paintings, and an advertising brief Alex and I were working on based on promoting Electric Cars. We weren’t getting very far with the ad because we just found tiny little electric cars to be funny in themselves, and kept finding ideas for shorts. So… Combine a tiny car with a large lady, and a speedbump, and presto!
The animation technique is Flash for the character, 3d for the car, then Photoshop and After Effects for backgrounds and textures. We’re exploring a painterly look to apply to a couple of other projects. Irma herself is likely to find her way into a series; The trials of Irma.
JP
