Ok, remember at some point we decided Amaru would have a Pegasus form, right ? Well, for this episode there was important fight scenes with him, so we had to draw a lot of extra references for the animation team… and they basically helped us for the whole show.
Horses are nightmares to draw and animate. Pegasus ? Even worse…
A few sunny bay streets, the backstage area, and Mephisto & Praxina’s cave. In fact, it’s very possible the villain’s lair was designed during this episode. I’m not completely sure though, as we were working on several episodes at the same time… :)
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This page will grow with time, don’t worry !
1 & 2 - Some photo taken while working on the posings and references for episode 2.25 “Crowning Glory Part 1″ ;)
3 - This drawing was on the door of storyboard departement. It gently reminded everyone there was no hope of getting out of here alive.
4 & 5 - A meeting where we discussed season 2 clips covers, and some draft made for / during this meeting (by Benedicte).
Here are a few cool reference posings we made for this episode, and also the modelsheet for Missy, with her “Urban outfit” as we call it.
Above are researches, by Gaëlle Autin, Flore Pipari, Bénédicte Ciaravino and Céline Lorthiois. You can easily guess what was the direction followed for this clip.
If you’re familiar with the lolirock illustrations, you’ll probably recognize posings from different pictures. ;)
And below is the cover finalized :
Here’s Kyle’s model sheet, with a few posings related to him and Talia mostly.
Above are researches, by Gaëlle Autin, Flore Pipari, Bénédicte Ciaravino and Céline Lorthiois. You can easily guess what was the direction followed for this clip.
If you’re familiar with the lolirock illustrations, you’ll probably recognize posings from different pictures. ;)
And below is the cover finalized :
IRIS AND NATHANIEL
Fanart of Iris and Nathaniel, from one of our top storyboard artist, Etienne Guignard. ;)
(He’s the one who boarded “Princess Brenda” Part 1 & 2, “Crowning Glory” Part 2, and also worked on a few others episodes such as “Cute as a Doll” and “I want my LTV” ;)
Written by Rhonda Smiley, cover by Gaëlle “Galou” Autin.
Talia & Kyle… I’ll be honest, this episode is far from being the team’s favorite, and personally I think it was a missed opportunity.
As a lot of you already guessed, we were asked to give each of our girl “an official boyfriend.” Iris has Nathaniel from the start, Auriana was written to have many & none at the same time, but nothing was written for Talia in the serie’s bible.
As I explained for the previous episode (Sirens), we experimented a lot during the first episodes of the show. We were still somewhere between “development” and “production”.
And so, Kyle was created… but now it feels that we rushed it. We weren’t ready to give Talia a boyfriend, and we made a lot of early mistakes. :) No shame to admit it though, as long as we learn from it.
Kyle was thought to be a nice and patient boy, able to “melt” Talia’s sense of duty and help her relax and enjoy life too. It was “Talia’s issue” in this episode, and Iris was supposed to help her solve it. It could have been good this way, but truth is : Talia didn’t need Kyle for that, and it made this relationship kind of artificial and forced. The twins’s evil plot was kinda confusing, I admit it too.
Now, I think a better way to finish this episode would have been to have Talia realizing that focusing only on the mission all the time wasn’t healthy for her, politely telling Kyle “thanks, you’re cute, but let’s just be friends… at least for now”, and telling Iris & Auriana “thanks girls, you’re the best, and you’re right : I should relax more, but right now I don’t need or want a boy for that. Let’s play music instead !” or something like that. As for the twin’s plot, I don’t know, but we’d have kept the Minotaur anyway though, ‘cause it’s a cool monster !
Unfortunately, since Kyle doesn’t appear much in the show (only in episode “Rex”, in season 2), we never had the opportunity to either fix or develop their relationship into something more genuine and cute… and it’s sad because Kyle is really a nice guy, and would deserve more screen time. :)
Above are researches, by Gaëlle Autin, Flore Pipari, Bénédicte Ciaravino and Céline Lorthiois. You can easily guess what was the direction followed for this clip.
If you’re familiar with the lolirock illustrations, you’ll probably recognize posings from different pictures. ;) The official “Team LoliRock” banner was at the beginning a research for LoliStep.
And below is the cover finalized :
Here are a few models sheets (The Black Crystal Sea Monster and the Crystal-Diving Masks), and some good underwater posings.
Above are researches, by Gaëlle Autin, Flore Pipari, Bénédicte Ciaravino and Céline Lorthiois. You can easily guess what was the direction followed for this clip.
If you’re familiar with the lolirock illustrations, you’ll probably recognize posings from different pictures. ;)
And below is the cover finalized :
Here are some of the backgrounds created for this episode, for the undersea part. There were a lot of version for each of them : “underwater”, “without water”, “start evening”, etc… it was a lot of work…
Above are researches, by Gaëlle Autin, Flore Pipari, Bénédicte Ciaravino and Céline Lorthiois. You can easily guess what was the direction followed for this clip.
If you’re familiar with the lolirock illustrations, you’ll probably recognize posings from different pictures. ;)
And below is the cover finalized :
