Christelle Abgrall

Text translation :

-All this blood will freak them out…

-I don’t care, I got my oysters at least!

Here’s the final transformation, for the main princess of the show : Iris.

When I arrived on this production, director Jean-Louis Vandestoc immediately requested me to create these transformations. You can’t imagine what happened in my mind then ! I never thought that I would be able, in France, as an animation professional artist, to do what I craved to do since I was a kid ! (Yeah, I was drawing magical girl transformations on my school textbooks, flip-book style !). Anyway it was both equally fulfilling and stressful. I didn’t want to mess up, and miss this opportunity : chances that I would be asked to do that again in a future production are pretty slim. 😉

Well, looking at the first feedback about the show on Tumblr, it seems most of the audience love my transformations, which of course makes me super-happy! 😀

 

Once the transformations were over, I storyboarded the first episode of the show, “Flower Power”, which hasn’t air yet. It probably will be soon.

It is a “standard episode” : Not really important regarding the storyline, but useful to help me create the global staging of the show. Thanks to that, I was able to brief my team “how to stage a LoliRock episode”. Sort of. (Did I said I loved my team ? Thank you guys for all the hard work, and the pain, we shared together on this production !)

Now, what about the show itself ? Well, some episodes are pretty good, and other… not so much. Quite like on every show to be honest. I think the good episodes deserve to be seen, at the very least. 🙂 You can be sure I’ll warn you all of their first broadcast ! (If I got the info of course).

My contract will be over next week. It’s a 2-years-and-half aventure that’s finished for me. It feels kinda weird. 🙂 I really hope this show will be successful. We really put a lot of love and energy (and lifeforce) in it, the whole team !

I’ll show you my work on this show when I can (obviously I can’t until it’s been aired enough).

See you soon everyone! 😉

 

After Talia’s, here’s Auriana’s tranformation, the happy-go-luck boy-crazy princess ! Enjoy !

As you probably noticed, I don’t post much right now. I’d love too, but to be blunt : It’s all because of my work as a storyboard artist ! I love this job, but it made all my free time vanish…

And since may 2012, I have been working on “LoliRock”, a magical girl show !!! (Yeah ! like Sailor Mooooooon !) I couldn’t show anything… until now ! The two first episodes were aired (at last !) in France, on “France 3” channel. So, good news : From now on, I’ll be able to show you what I’ve been doing on this show, as storyboard supervisor.

Here’s the storyboard/animatic of Talia’s transformation. I created it… wow ! 2 years ago, already ! I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed drawing it !!

 

 

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I’m not been very inspired on Mononoke Hime… So I decided to change the subject, let’s draw zebra and pink hait 😛

This afternoon I was supposed to draw the Mononoke fan-art, but finally it transformed into a rewriting session of one script from the TV series I’m working on right now (sigh…). By the way, thank you to the super colleague who helped me doing it!
The good news is, the script is gonna be good (or I hope it will, as I do not have a global view of it at all right now); the bad news is I do not have anything to show here tonight! Except maybe one pic from the first sketch of it…

Yeah, I know, it sucks. I’m sorry.