Kwoon “King of Sea” Music Video by Stéphane Berla

Eddy director Stéphane Berla and Paris studio Brunch animated this music video for “King of Sea” by French post-rock project Kwoon by combining VR illustration/animation tool Quill and Blender 3D software into a dramatic maritime narrative with a stop-motion feel.

Director Stéphane Berla: “I discovered Kwoon [Sandy Lavallart] at the Georges Pompidou Centre in 2008 during a music video festival. I saw the video clip ‘I Lived on the Moon’ and I realized we shared the same taste for poetic worlds tinged with darkness and melancholy.

“Although we had worked together on several projects before, it was only during the first COVID confinement that the opportunity to make an animated music film came. Sandy had already started his project of playing his music live in totally isolated places and his new goal was particularly crazy: he wanted to be dropped off by a boat on the cursed lighthouse of Tévennec.

“He sent me his song, and the story of this sailor who wanted to be stranded at the foot of this mythical lighthouse so as not to be swallowed by the sea, haunted me. I absolutely had to make a film about this.”
 
Kwoon King of Sea Music Video Stéphane Berla Eddy | STASH MAGAZINE

Kwoon King of Sea Music Video Stéphane Berla Eddy | STASH MAGAZINE

Kwoon King of Sea Music Video Stéphane Berla Eddy | STASH MAGAZINE

Kwoon King of Sea Music Video Stéphane Berla Eddy | STASH MAGAZINE

Kwoon King of Sea Music Video Stéphane Berla Eddy | STASH MAGAZINE
 
Artist: Kwoon

Production: Eddy
Director: Stéphane Berla
Executive producers – Jean François Bourrel,
Nicolas de Rosanbo, Céline Vanlint
Producer – Camille Principiano

Animation: Brunch Studio
Head of studio: Jean-Charles Kerninon
Head of Production: Fabien Cellier
Line Producer: Emilie Revert
Production Coordinator: Brice Smith
Background Design: Raphaelle Stolz
Storyboard: Léa Rey Mauzaize
Design & Character Modeler: Stéphane Berla
Décor Modeling: Léa Peirano
Animator: Lana Choukroune, Phuong Nguyen
Layoutanimation: Stéphane Berla
Animation Intern: Kévin Hamimi
Lighting/Render: Stéphane Berla
CG Supervisor: Guillaume Maillard
Pipeline/Developer: Radouane Lahmidi
Lighting/Render compositing: Stéphane Berla

Support: CNC

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