JOKO Wins at the 2025 Émile Awards

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://stopmotionmagazine.com/joko-wins-at-the-2025-emile-awards/

Welcome to Shiba Town, where the rich live underground. London, circa 2091.

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Playing with SketchUp and Twinmotion. Playing in the rain.

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Note to self: Don't put a bunch of railings in backgrounds in the future.

Reply to self: thanks.

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"The Golem" interior shot #1.

This one was really cool to work on, trying to get the best of that oppressive and humid feeling the production wanted. We're in the belly of an old and wrecked Golem.

I wish I had more time to explore much more claustrophobic scenes, to see how far I could push it.

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"The Golem" exterior shot.
Showing a giant robot half buried in a forest was trickier than anticipated, especially since I had to come up at the same time with its design, which means body shapes and head features. I put a hand in the back of the picture for scale.

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"The Forest" background design I did for the Mekka Nikki TV show project pitch deck.

Challenging one, trying to get the moss right and find a proper lighting for this scene. I like to paint tree trunks but leaves and moss are always tricky.

Mekka Nikki is produced by Dada ! Animation.

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"The Cave" background design I did for the Mekka Nikki TV show project pitch deck.

Rocks again! But this time, wet ones! Different exercise than the desert one.

The challenge was to render a bit of depth and show the round "doline cave" shape, with a troglodyte village in the back.

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Here's the finished background. You can now see the whole journey, from basic photobashing to full paint over.

Characters will be added to it, to create the full narrative scene.

I can't show you the finished piece, it's going to be part of a pitch deck project I'm putting together, soon to be sent to studios and producers.

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