ALINE

Short List
TitleALINE
BrandWES ANDERSON - SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
Product/ServiceTHE FRENCH DESPATCH
Category B04. Animation
Entrant WETRANSFER Amsterdam, UNITED KINGDOM
Idea Creation AMERICAN EMPRICIAL PICTURES New York, USA
Production OPAL FILMS Paris, FRANCE
Additional Company WETRANSFER Amsterdam, UNITED KINGDOM
Credits
Name Company Position
Jarvis Cocker Jarvis Cocker Singer
Javi Aznarez Javi Aznarez Illustrator & Animation
Wes Anderson Wes Anderson Director
Octavia Peissel Octavia Peissel Producer
Arnau Sola Arnau Sola Animation Supervisor & Lead Animator & Lead Compositor
Fernando Abaca Fernando Abaca Animator
Libardo Bohorquez Libardo Bohorquez Animator
Toni Sala Toni Sala Animator
Julia Olivella Julia Olivella Colour Artist
Miguel Angel Canillas Miguel Angel Canillas Colour Artist
Alex Roca Alex Roca Post Production & Compositing

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As the world waited for the release of The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson gathered a small team together to make his first-ever music video to celebrate the feature film’s theme song, Aline. As the film is made in homage to The New Yorker, the artist’s style needed to possess a faint whiff of the magazine’s aesthetic values.

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Picture this: you’re an illustrator who prefers to work alone, quietly, in your studio, calmly drawing cartoons and answering briefs with pen and ink. Imagine then that you find yourself not only working flat out on what turns out to be a three-year-long collaboration with one of the most famous directors in the world, but also drawing live, on a film set, in front of said director and the entire crew of one of the most hotly anticipated cinematic releases of the decade. Last year, during the making of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, this situation became a reality for artist Javi Aznarez. When Wes was looking for an artist to work on the film, his co-producer Octavia Peissel suggested Javi. Wes was so taken with his work that he invited Javi to join the team in an illustration and artwork capacity.