Rodrigo Sousa

Chroniques de l'eau salée- making of 01

I wanted to show some behind the scenes of our graduation film "Tales of salted water" a short film codirected with the amazing:

Tamerlan Bekmurzayev https://www.instagram.com/tamerlanbekmurzayev/

Antoine Carré: https://www.instagram.com/antcarre/

Alex Petit 2023-11-01 20:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Stranger at the door-making of

Here is a making of an animation I did. I wanted to show how rough the animation starts and how I refine it as I go.

Here I wanted to make an animation of a creature coming near the a door but seen from the little fish eye window. Therefore having to do a fish eye animation and background. This creature would open it's mouth and a giant worm would come out of it.

Here is a very rough concept.

2023-11-01 19:27:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Spider creature design

Here is a thought process behind another of the creatures from the "Playground - trailer"

The fist idea I had was for a scene, where children trying to escape a spider like creature on a spider web/ playground climbing net. I wanted to bring horror to a usually happy and palyfull place, that's was one of the core ideas of all of the project, mixing horror and colorful kid games.

2023-09-06 12:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Lion creature design

Some people asked for the references and thought process behind some of the creatures int my Playground-trailer. I thought I could make a post explaining it!

One of the main ideas behind the different creatures of the playground was that they each represent a childhood game, in this case I was thinking about "green light red light". In french it's called "1,2,3 soleil" ("1,2,3 Sun" in english), so I thought of a creature that could kill ...

PLAYGROUND- making-of

Here is a making of Playground, I tried showing the different steps of each shot and how some ideas designs changed from the first rough to the final shot. All the animation/ animatic was made on tvpaint, backgrounds on photoshop and post-production on After effects/ Premiere. Music and sound design was made by the fantastic Jérémy Ben Ammar more of his stuff here: 2023-08-10 11:18:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Playground-Trailer

Here is a trailer I did for a horror  project I want to create. The amazing Jérémy Ben Ammar did the music and sound design .Some info on the project, this is a concept trailer for a feature film/ series that doestnt exist yet. I did it in my freetime during 6 months outside my work in the animation industry (animation, layout, storyboard, concept art). Because of the visibility this short had, I had the enormous luck of bein...