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All aboard the Sushi plane

Jan 14 2011

The illustrations below were based on the fourteen winners of a Telstra competition that received entries from more than twelve thousand budding film makers. Chris Wahl warms up every other day doing caricatures of varying levels of distortion. His wealth of practice in this area means he understands our facial anatomy better than a plastic surgeon. So when it comes to depicting real people like comic characters without losing their core likeness he’s in his element.

The execution of these animations was done by passing illustrated layers in front of a still background which is very similar to the way animatic films are made (animatics are 30 second animations that get presented in research to garner the public’s response before TV ideas go to air). Chris Wahl’s illustration career has seen him produce thousands of these for hundreds of clients.

Add to this the fact that when we met Chris he had just left working at Disney on animations and you have an illustrator that fits the brief better than a plaster cast.

Scroll down through some of the pencils and final illustrations to appreciate his process. Then watch the final animations to see all the illustrations in the campaign.

To see more of Chris’ portfolio, click here or on any of the images below.