Freshly signed to the director roster at Passion Paris, Colombian animator/character designer Juan Pablo Machado channels his favorite manga artists in this music video fantasy for French producer/musician Sandór Waïss.

Juan Pablo Machado: “I always had great admiration for mangakas such as Shin’ichirō Watanabe (Samurai Champloo) and Tsutomu Nihei (Blame), their attention to detail and the powerful expressions of their characters, and Satoshi Kon for his off-the-wall directing and editing.

“In this project, the character is the door to a conversation with the viewer. A good design reflects the character’s personality, past, and values.

“As a director, I had three main technical challenges. First, I had to manage the whole budget of the project since I decided to do this music video as freelance. At the same time, I also had to handle and supervise the many production aspects of the project.

“The creative challenges were all about efficiency. I tried to produce drawings that were pleasing to the eye while still having very few images to keep the animation simple. This way, I was able to put most of the effort into the dancing sequence.”
 
 

 
Artist: Sandór Waïss
Label: Broken blue ℗ 2022 LORE under exclusive license to Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment

Production: Lore
Director: Juan Pablo Machado
Writer: Sandór Waïss & Ahllem
Layout/Storyboard: Juan Pablo Machado
Leads Background Artist: Delphine Natale
Animator: Gabrielle Pereira-Ramos, Marion Coudert, Marion Bideplan, Mylène Cominotti, Pierre-jean Le Moël
Assistant Director: Sarah Sun
Background Artist: Delphine Natale, Houzhi Huang
Color Artist: Thea Nicol de Klerk, Gabrielle Periera-Ramos
Compositor: Thomas Eid