So I woke up this morning and whilst browsing through my Tumblr dash, I came across this wonderful body of work by Vivien Wu and it kind of pretty much sums up what I want to do with this brief that I posted a couple days ago. For her graduation project, she reinterpreted one of her favorite childhood book series Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans in the style of a feature animation.
"The story appeals to me because of its colorful rhymes, the beautiful boarding school in a Parisian setting, and the plucky, spirited heroine that every little girl can relate to."
“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
In rain or shine
They left the house at half past nine
The smallest one was Madeline.”
-Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline, 1939
"I would like to share a sampling of the graduation project that I had so much fun illustrating! It’s an old series, but one of my childhood favorites. There has been a TV series and a live action film, but never a modern-ish animated feature, and it was a bit of a passion project to imagine what it would look like, down to the character designs and the actual scenes." - Vivien (more illustrations on her website).
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