Title	SUMO
Brand	FRANCE.TV
Product/Service	TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES
Category	B04. Animation
Entrant	MULLENLOWE FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
Idea Creation	MULLENLOWE FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
Media Placement	MULLENLOWE FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
PR	MULLENLOWE FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
Production	MULLENLOWE FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
Post Production	MULLENLOWE FRANCE Paris, FRANCE

Name	Company	Position
Jordan Lemarchand	Mullenlowe France	ECD and Art director
Colin Antoine	Mullenlowe France	ECD and copywriter
Olivier Desmettre	freelance	Copywriter
Lopez Philippe	Mullenlowe france	Copy writer & Art director
Rinaldi Eric	France télévison,s	Creative director
Levallois Stéphane	illustrator	illustrator
Barbet-Massin Geoffroy	mikros	Réalisateur / Art Director / Story-board & animatic
allart hugues	Mikros	Executive Producer
Mollet Stephane	Mikros	VFX Producers
uglair Marie-Cécile	Mikros	VFX Producers
Cathala Benjamin	Mikros	VFX Producers
Venchiarutti Vincent	Mikros	VFX Supervisors
Shaun Severi	Mikros	Artistic Advisor
Penon Alix	Mikros	Background designs
Antin Antoine	Mikros	Lead Animation
Lachal Mathias	Mikros	Animation
Dufau Lucile	Mikros	Animation
Sandrine Han Jin Kuang	mikros	Animation
Mistral Caroline	mikros	Compositing and Motion design
Yohann Leroy	mikros	Compositing and Motion design

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The previz work had been crucial to allow the greatest optimization at all levels. With both the production and all the steps from staging to final delivery being handled in-house, we could take the most fine-tuned technical and creative decisions as a team to allow a smooth production. As such, our Lead Animator, Antoine Antin, worked closely with Geoffroy Barbet-Massin to adapt the initial character design of the sumotori, made by Stephane Levallois, to the needs of the 2D animation without compromising on his athletic capabilities. Also, we had to find a rather "dry" style of animation to respect the static approach of the Japanese prints. This is why we opted for a stepped animation in 3’s and 4’s that contributed to the “hand-drawn” feeling on the animation and allowed us to focus on the richness of FX, of details in the characters and