S01.E13 - Batty

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Written by Rhonda Smiley, Storyboard by Fanny Marseau & Thomas Astruc, Cover by Gaëlle “Galou” Autin

This episode was a pretty cool one : besides the new haircuts and outfits for most of our crew, we also had a guest artist working on it : the second half of the episode was storyboarded by Thomas Astruc, director of Miraculous ! Thomas also helped us to correct and rewrite most of the script. Not that we asked for him to do it : he just couldn’t stop himself… which brought me tons of additional work to manage the recording of all the new lines he changed. ;) 

Fun fact : on a first version of Thomas’ board, Iris and Praxina’s fight was much more kung-fu / martial arts oriented (Miraculous style). Unfortunately, for various reason, we couldn’t keep it as it was, and had to change it, which was kinda sad.

Anyway, it was a really nice collaboration, and a part of why we consider Miraculous and LoliRock to be “cousins shows” : a lot of people of the staff worked on both projects at some point. 

Bellow are a few sheets and posings from this episode. 

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lolirock s01e13 batty thomas astruc miraculous ladybug iris talia auriana fanny marseau
“Who’s Beatrix ?”……Is the question I received 19 times today. To the point I wondered if I should answer or not. Beatrix is a fanmade LoliRock princess, created by Marco Albiero, the talented graphist who’s making all the adaptations of the LoliRock...

“Who’s Beatrix ?”…

…Is the question I received 19 times today. To the point I wondered if I should answer or not. 

Beatrix is a fanmade LoliRock princess, created by Marco Albiero, the talented graphist who’s making all the adaptations of the LoliRock comics ! :)

As a reminder, here’s links to see Marco’s work : 

- https://www.facebook.com/MarcoAlbieroArt/

- http://marcoalbiero.altervista.org/

lolirock beatrix fanart marco albiero we needed a yellow one anyway

Character Posings (From S01E12 “No Thanks for the Memories”)

“No thanks for the memories” was a complicated episode to create. In the first draft, Iris only lost her memories and was manipulated by Mephisto and Praxina, but there was no “Dark Iris” transformation or whatever. 

It was at storyboard stage that we felt the episode was messy and confusing. We had to remove tons of things, and the storyboard supervisor had to reboard it almost entirely. Not that this is our greatest episode ever, but at least it’s now enjoyable in its own way. 

As a reminder, here’s the post with Dark Iris model sheet.

Fun fact : when we completed Dark Iris color sheet, we loved it so much that we promised ourselves to create opportunities for a Dark Auriana and a Dark Talia in season 2. :) 

lolirock s01e12 iris dark iris talia auriana no thanks for the memories

LoliRock Main Characters Line Up

I’ve received a few messages pointing that the size of characters seems to change on the model sheets I post on this blog, especially Talia compared to Iris and Auriana. 

Well, yeah, they do because most of what I post are quick montage of separate sheets, and I admit I don’t really pay attention to this (up to a point of course).

On the production however, relation sizes was something we paid a really close attention, and all characters / monsters created on the show had a size comparison with Iris, since we used her as the reference height. So here are the two main line up, that were created during development stage. These are the correct relation-sizes. 

That’s when we decided we wanted Auriana a little smaller and Talia a little higher than Iris, that Praxina should be around Talia’s height, that most boys are one head higher than girls, that Gramorr is insanely tall, etc.

Fun fact : on their magical outfits, both Talia and Auriana are taller since they now have high-heel. But Iris already had heels on her casual outfits, and we didn’t want the relative size of Iris-Talia-Auriana to change when they are in magical mode. So we cheated : we made Iris a little taller in magical outfit to preserve the relation size we liked in casual form. “It’s magic”. You’re welcome. ;)

Edit : I added another model sheet with Lyna, Carissa, Izira and Lev. Basically, Lyna is a little small than Talia but taller than Iris, and Carissa is the same size as Iris. The “trick” with Iris’ height is applied also with Lyna and Carissa, so the relative relation size between them stays the same, being casual outfit or magical outfits. 

lolirock model sheet main pack relation sizes