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LoliRock Behind the Scenes - Transformations Sequences
Hi, here’s a new Behind the scenes that I think you should appreciate : it’s about our princesses transformations sequences.
Iris’, Talia’s and Auriana’s transformations were storyboarded by Christelle Abgrall (storyboard supervisor on LoliRock), and Amaru’s transformation was storyboarded by Jean-Louis Vandestoc (aka “the director”).
These were created at the very beginning of the production, even before the storyboard of episode 102. Christelle is a huge fan of Sailor Moon, as much as Jean-Louis is with Pinky Momo. That’s why he wanted her to carry this mission. As Christelle said on her website :
“ When LoliRock’s director, Jean-Louis Vandestoc, asked me to create the transformation sequences, I was completely stunned, in a good way. I never thought that I would be asked, as a professional, to draw the exact same thing I had fun drawing on my school’s notebooks. Creating these transformations was “total awesomeness” and “completely stressful” at the same time. I wanted to do the best I could, and not to miss this opportunity, as I would very unlikely be able to do that again in the future. ”
And as you can see, these transformation sequences are more than just an average storyboard : most of the animation is already there.
As you may or may not know, these transformations were originally intented to be created as CGI sequences, and to that end we worked with the french animation studio Nintai (You can find their work on LoliRock on their youtube channel).
However, at some point we felt these CGI transformations were too far from the 2D “look & feel” of the show. We wondered if we should keep it as it was, or redo it in 2D to match the show better. It was a painful decision to make, and an expensive one too since it meant extra-cost to our not-so-exstensive budget… and at this time we weren’t even sure the 2D transformations would be better ! It’s one big dilemma we had to solve, both the director (Jean-Louis) and his production manager (myself).
In the end, as you already know, we decided to switch and have the transformation re-animated in 2D, by the same animators that were doing the rest of the show : Inspidea’s team, in Malaysia. The work done by Nintai in CGI was used as reference to help the 2D animators, and most of the compositing done by Nintai was kept in the end. Was it worth it ? You tell us. ;)
Amaru’s transformation was done in a straight line compared to the girl’s. In fact, he wasn’t even supposed to have one “official” transformation at the beginning, but Jean-Louis felt “it would be better if he had one”, so here we are!
Lecteurs francophones ? Voici la version française du texte ci-dessous.

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