Lautrec's Bohemian Paris | Animated Posters
Role: Animation
The Victoria Art Gallery was fundraising to put on a Toulouse-Lautrec's Bohemian Paris exhibition. I was very pleased to be asked to bring some of the famous posters “to life”. This wording was part of the campaign to encourage people to donate. I chose three posters which I thought lent themselves well to animation, which you can see in this compilation. The animations were used on social media and as part of a film made by the fundraising team.
Client: Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and North Somerset Council
Credits:
Artwork by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen and Alphonse Mucha.
Le Chat Noir
by Théophile Steinlen (1896)
Confetti
by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1894)
Champagne Ruinart
by Alphonse Mucha (1896)
process
Sections of each poster were painted out in Photoshop. This would help certain elements, such as the cat’s tail, from revealing a blank space once in motion.
The original art was then masked and separated into different layers and composited on top of the painted out backgrounds.
Expression sliders, puppet pins and other distortion effects were used to achieve the animation.
bonus
A logo animation I created for the same client. This was used at the start of various filmed promos I produced as part of Immix Media.