Bunny’s New World required a messy kitchen set for our fat bunny to interact with. The film was designed with an extremely restricted palette — blues dominate, with the white fluorescent of the refrigerator the brightest “white” of the scene. The carrots are a popping orange color to draw the eye.
We’re gearing up for the Peekaboo‘s premiere at Slamdance, and that means printing limited runs of posters and postcards for the event.
Looking back to vintage vacation posters, I sought to generate a nostalgic “grand resort” feel, while hinting toward the tension in the overall narrative. Peekaboo plays in Park City January 22th and January 25th. To see the Slamdance schedule / buy tickets, Click here.
Bunny’s New World is an animated short about a rabbit’s search for food in an abandoned kitchen.
The design process began with a more realistically styled rabbit, and evolved into a more stylized, obese rabbit, with wide set eyes and a more simplistic expression.
Eventually, the rabbit became more streamlined, with softened edges, small, wide ears, and a more cartoonish design.
May 2012 bring everyone good luck and prosperity. Here’s a tileable wallpaper in celebration of new beginnings!
Cecimonster is back from a four month teaching assignment in Florence, Italy! Saw a lot of good art, taught some amazing students, and met great filmmakers at the Zinebi Film Festival in Bilbao, Spain.
We’re coming back to the United States with the international premiere of Peekaboo at Slamdance Film Festival.
I will be based in Los Angeles, CA. Drop a line if you’re interested in projects or collaborations!
In celebration of our return, here’s a tileable Italian-inspired background for your enjoyment!
In honor of the reopening of cecimonster.com I am releasing a free tiled background for your computer! Please check back for more freebies in the weeks to come!
These are film stills from Peekaboo, an animated film. Learn more about Peekaboo on the project page.
With the upcoming premiere of the New World Symphony’s Pictures at an Exhibition project, I’m sharing a little behind-the-scenes for the making of the Tuileries segment, which I designed and directed.
Tuileries is a short movement of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition“.
In the original painting Mussorgsky used for inspiration, The garden of Tuileries was depicted in its mid-19th century splendor, with children in the foreground to convey a sense of scale.
Here are some early look boards to get a sense of the place:
From these diverse sources, the design became looser — I wanted the children to feel like they could either fit into the Victorian era or the mid 20th century. Similarly, the garden became looser. The focus shifted into creating the feeling of a child’s paradise with topiaries and winding paths instead of directly describing the garden.
Here are some early sketches:
Here are the finalized designs for the children in the piece:
The garden evolved into a board-game like design filled with animal topiaries, winding paths, and flowers.
Here is the overall garden (it covers 5 screens):
And here are some close ups:
Pictures at an Exhibition premieres Saturday, January 29th with encore performances on Sunday, January 30th.
Read more press about the NWS Pictures at an Exhibition project at the Miami Examiner, The Miami Herald,The Washington Post, and the LA Times. More press to come!
More on the New World Center at PBS Newshour, and New York Times, among others
Please check back for more press clippings and documentation!
