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We are so honored to have been nominated for "Best New Studio" by the Motion Awards, along with so many other incredible studios like our friends at Feed Me Light, Moth, and Wednesday. These awards are decided through a public voting process, so please cast your vote HERE before April 14th! Thank you!

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MEGA TURTLE! Here is a tiny little scene we animated for Elizabeth Ito's incredible Cartoon Network short "Welcome to My Life"! Design by / Kevin Dart Animation & Compositing by / Stéphane Coëdel

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Watch Chromosphere art director Jasmin Lai paint one of the beautiful backgrounds from our holiday card!

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More beautiful thumbnails from Arthur Chaumay for June!

Another set of color keys/backgrounds concepts for June. Our art director @kevindart helped me to get the right tones for those ones.

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Car designs from designer Arthur Chaumay for June

Pieces of my design work for June’s car. I also created the interior of the vehicle. The 3D modeling was done by Pedro Vergani and the reflections by Camille Perrin. It was such a blast to see my design coming to life!

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Here are the incredible backgrounds that Jasmin painted for this year's holiday card!

Backgrounds featuring various festive cities for Chromosphere LA’s holiday card.

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We were thrilled to work with Arthur Chaumay on June! Here are some amazing thumbnails he did exploring June's neighborhood of Bronzeville.

Color keys/researches I did for the Lyft short film June. The second set of pics are explorations for the neighbourhood where June lives.

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Motionographer has posted an awesome in-depth article about our process working on June with John Kahrs, with tons of production artwork and behind the scenes info! We're incredibly honored to be featured on there! READ THE WHOLE THING HERE!

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Watch a collection of some of our favorite shots from June to the super chill beats of Mine Shoulder!

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Check out this great behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of June, featuring interviews with director John Kahrs, Chromosphere creative director Kevin Dart, Lyft creative director Ricardo Viramontes, and musician Sir the Baptist (who wrote and performed the song for the montage!). There's also some more production artwork and a few peeks at our LA studio space in the video!

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"Life is better when you share the ride."

"June" is the story of a woman who becomes more connected to her community through ridesharing. Chromosphere was approached by Academy Award-winning director John Kahrs and Lyft to provide complete design and animation services for this project. We worked directly with John from the earliest concept designs through to the final frames, making sure that everything we did enhanced the story that he wanted to tell.

In the beginning we see only a small slice of the world around June in Chicago's southside, but by the end we are taken on a whirlwind journey through all of Chicago's diverse and colorful neighborhoods. For visualizing these environments we first tapped designer Théo Guignard whose rich color sensibilities brought out the beauty in every single place June visits.

One of our biggest challenges was to design, build, and rig June, our central character. She needed to be appealing and fit in with our graphic style, but also have the ability to exhibit subtle emotions. For her design, as well as all of the other characters in the film, we enlisted Tiffany Ford to capture her personality. Tiffany's designs have an authentic and specific feel that is often hard to come by in mainstream animation.

To bring the characters to life we had to assemble a team of animators who could embrace the visual style of the short and also understand the subtlety of acting required to make the piece feel authentic. Leading this team was Nelson Boles, who lent his extremely sophisticated sensibilities to June's movements and facial expressions.

The final product is a vibrant mix of 2D and 3D assembled by our skilled team of international compositors and animators. We're incredibly proud to have been a part of this beautiful project. Check out our full production credits below:

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Kevin Dart

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Myles Shioda

DESIGN Théo Guignard Arthur Chaumay Tiffany Ford Jasmin Lai Emily Paik Sylvia Liu

CG Pedro Vergani Feed Me Light: Felipe Hansen, Denis Bodart, Denis Bouyer, Richard Kazuo Maegaki Mattias Bjurström Theresa Latzko

ANIMATION Nelson Boles Claudio Salas Alex Grigg Jonathan Djob Nkondo Bill Northcott Vitaliy Strokous

LIGHTING & RENDERING Camille Perrin

COMPOSITING Stéphane Coëdel Rob Ward H. Kristen Campbell Alasdair Brotherston

ADDITIONAL HELP FROM Nate Funaro Keiko Murayama Rachel Chu Jim Levasseur

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Travel with us at chromosphere-la.com Happy Holidays from the whole team at Chromosphere! DESIGNED BY Jasmin Lai CHARACTER DESIGN BY Tiffany Ford ANIMATION & COMPOSITING BY Rob Ward MUSIC BY Mine Shoulder SOUND DESIGN BY Stephane Coedel

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Colorscript and design sketches by Kevin Dart for our film FORMS IN NATURE

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Incredible character animation by Nelson Boles from our film FORMS IN NATURE

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FORMS IN NATURE: Understanding Our Universe

Check out our newest film, a celebration of all the wonders of nature and mankind’s scientific achievements!

By Kevin Dart // Stéphane Coëdel // David Kamp // Nelson Boles

Produced by Chromosphere

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Desolation.