Leon's House, Bedroom - Design & Development

Here is part of a location design and 3D model for Leon's house. I’ve been very inspired by the work of legendary French photographer Atget, and the influence of his work is clearly visible throughout this film.

What fascinates me most about his photographs is the power of story telling, captured by a simple yet stunning way of framing the subject. Even though most of his photographs don’t include physical presence of people, nevertheless the human life is not absent in his work. His interior photography tells me a story of the person who might have just left the room.

Despite the fact that Atget photographs are taken about 40-60 years earlier than the period when Leon spends his childhood in Paris, I was pretty keen to introduce a similar visual quality into some of these locations.

Concept art - Reza Dolatabadi

3D model, texture & render - Jon Botros

Photographs by Eugène Atget. 

La Ritournelle is an animated short film directed by Reza Dolatabadi produced by Fritzi Nicolaus and written by screenwriter Lucas Lanza and Reza. For the project Reza and Fritzi have gathered an international team of twenty young and talented artists from 9 different countries. These countries are: Great Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, USA, Canada and Nepal. 

We have been working on La Ritournelle from January 2011. Our team is collaborating on the short film with the common goal to create a beautifully animated story set in Paris in the 1920s and 1940s. All members of the team share a similar passion for animation and storytelling, and that passion is what brought our multicultural group together.