I work with danser mostly with friends, they dance in front of me, they mostly are coming from a contemporary dance background but rework their art to be looking more like a style of breakdance/hip hop. An other friend put the beat, and they go free dancing on the beat, it’s mostly a type of danse that is really visceral, quite acrobatic for some. Nothing is really planed.

I film them, sometimes if I am feeling good enough i just go “raw”, but those generally result in new way for me to confront my line work, than true piece on themselves, and use those accidental finding to better the fluidity in my animation. But for animation like this one I'm essentially resting on one reference, this is why this so fluid, it’s essentially a massive study.

I am neither a dancer or an animator, I am a drawer (dessinateur) I am just obsessed with the line. So animation was a way I had to explore to have more fluidity in my work. I am just amazed by the work of Angelo. This work in particular his thought to be decline in different ways, like a motif like grant wallpaper (still in production) to convey a feeling of accumulation. Like an illustration of my persistant rambling in this animation in particular.

Some extract will be zoom only on his face and will emphasize his facial expression, I will rework them with graphite and create mobile that turn on themselves and create some kind of windmill flipbook.

That animation his really for my final in college so I push myself to the maximum of my capacity, I can only achieve 10 or 12 frame by day working at 8h to the moment I finished at least the tenth. I just wanted to go back at something I used to really like and reappropriate the danse, the notion of animation. The over obsession for little detail, just feel the brush flowing on the paper.

Hope I make sens because it quite late in my country (5:35) and I lack a lot of sleep