It’s been a while since I posted some book trailers that use Motion Comic and Motion Illustration techniques (Animation made by re-purposing art from comics, illustrations, fine art, etc), so here are a few I have found on my explorations on the Internet.
A post on re-purposing comics and illustration into animation
The first trailer is for Liesl and Po, which takes charcoal drawings by artists Kei Acedera and maps them to 3D geometry in the open-source Blender 3D to impressive effect. Animation by Exit Left studio.
Next is a trailer for the BD album “WW2.2., l’autre guerre mondiale” from French language Dargaud with art by Hervé Boivin and Eric Henninot. Really well created trailer with some very nice art.
The Germans aim to take Paris. Emptied of its occupants, the city is defended by small groups of French soldiers … One of them, commanded by Sergeant Miller, will play a decisive role in the coming battle, the first turn of the war that will be the battle of Paris….
This begins the first volume of WW.2.2 with a prologue that introduces the idea around which to build this unusual cartoon: a man tells how, in November 1939, he killed Adolf Hitler …
