My second favorite film of the year (and if you know me or have kept up with my blatherings all year, you know my favorite at this point) was Sylvain Chomet's resurrection of Jacques Tati's unrealized screenplay THE ILLUSIONIST. This is a profoundly beautiful and moving animated film (a perfect marriage of hand-drawn animation and computer assistance) that is both a tribute to Tati's work and life, and distinctively a Sylvain Chomet film (his last feature, which like this one was almost completely dialogue-free, was the wonderful and acclaimed THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE). It's tricky coming up with a poster idea for an animated film whose characters have already been rendered in such a memorable way, but I took the opportunity to come up with my own illustration anyways, partially inspired by the illustrations of vintage Tati posters, partly just to have an excuse to illustrate some characters. I also definitely wanted to present the movie as a story about these two characters and the relationship between them. As a side note, I actually pitched a few rough ideas to Sony Pictures Classics for an ILLUSIONIST poster, which I'll post below just to share some more insight into wrapping one's head around marketing such a unique animated film:
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Can we see a larger version of the one in the bottom left corner (that is just text)?
These are all pretty cool, Sam!!
Here you go Brent -- but as this was just a rough comp, you can see that some of the lettering is lo-res and unfinished: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samsmyth/5328985472/
Thanks a lot for the larger version. My favorite film of the year. This is going on my desktop background!
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