Paris-based Jungler director Vincent Gibaud turns his talent for rendering powerful narratives in expressive 2D animation to a tender tale of a child’s tender skin in this film for German body care brand Nivea.

Jungler EP Amandine Bruneau: “This is the kind of story you can’t ignore. Charlotte is four years old and has a skin condition called EPP – erythropoietic protoporphyria, a very rare genetic condition that makes her skin sensitive to blue light which means she can’t stay in the sun.

“Together with director Vincent Gibaud and illustrator Matthieu Méron, we created an epic adventure, for which we were inspired by how, despite her illness, Charlotte keeps smiling. How she sees everything that happens and her illness with a child’s eye.

“The art direction uses very contrasting colors, yellow and blue, to highlight this very Manichean picture between light and darkness.”

For a better understanding of the scope of Vincent Gibaud’s storytelling abilities, we recommend watching these two very different pieces of work: the comedic SPA “Very Cat Trip” and this devastating film for French NGO Face à l’Inceste.

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Client: Nivea

Agency: Publicis Hamburg

Production: Jungler
Director: Vincent Gibaud
Executive Producer: Amandine Bruneau
Producer: Sebastien Pribile
Production Manager: Lisa Hieblot, Baptiste Legois
Artistic Director: Matthieu Méron
Director: Vincent Gibaud
Animation supervisor: Alice Blaskevic
Layout Posing: Juliette Danesi, Camille Prot
Animator: Louai Benadda, Juliette Danesi, Alexis Giraud, Camille Prot, Camille Sallan
Color: Merve Noskan
Compositing: Vincent Gibaud

Sound: Capitaine Plouf, Maris Albaladejo, Guillaume Le Guen
Music: Yannis Dumoutiers