From Twitter: Jérémy Clapin blends 2D and 3D animation to create the anime... [NetFlix Film]
Netflix Film The Cannes award-winning film I LOST MY BODY follows a severed limb’s journey across Paris to reunite with its former host. Let’s discuss how director Jérémy Clapin blends 2D and 3D animation to create the anime and René Laloux-inspired world the hand inhabits.
The film adapts Guillaume Laurant’s novel Happy Hand, but Clapin and Laurant twist the source material to fit the new medium. The film recalls influences like the understated Ghibli work of Isao Takahata and the mind-bending psychedelia of René Laloux.
A hand escapes from a hospital refrigerator and recalls life with Naoufel, a morose delivery man whose destiny changes after a chance encounter with a customer. Everyday facets of urbanity like pigeons, rats, and garbagemen become deadly obstacles for the traveling extremity.
While the hand narrates the book, the movie passes long stretches without dialogue. Moments of action are punctuated with montage and flashback as the limb reflects on Naoufel’s past, a recreation of how tactile sensation stimulates memory.
... The process begins with modeling sets and characters in 3D before they’re touched up by a wide-ranging team of artists. Clapin credited Grease Pencil, a tool within open source software Blender, with saving them time and energy by letting them draw directly on 3D elements.
