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.

Then for...

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 with only an eye contact (like medusa), and his fa...

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 being contacted by some people that can make this into...