Art of Mune, Guardian of the Moon
/Mune: Guardian of the Moon, is an animation movie directed by Benoît Philippon and Alexandre Heboyan. The movie was produced by On Animation Studios, Onyx Films, Kinology, and Orange Studio, in 2014. The original idea of the film was born with a project from writer Benoît Philippon, who planned to start a short live action film in an atmosphere inspired by Terry Gilliam movies: the story of a character who lives in a forest and wins the Moon, spearing it with a rope. The project soon proved to be unfeasible in a short format and Philippon started to turn it into a feature film project. He developed and created a more complex poetic universe with its own cosmogony and different inhabitants related to the Sun and the Moon. The universe further formed with the contribution of Nicolas Marlet who designed the characters, and Aurelian Prédal, artistic director of the film. The human characters were designed as hybrids between human beings, animals and various materials. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this movie.
THE STORY
In an imaginary world, a small Sun and Moon were made by the first Guardians to warm up a small planet inhabited by different marvelous people. The Guardians follow generations after generations and preserve the harmony of the world. The people of the day and those of the night live in relative harmony, even though they are very different from each other. But in the depth of the planet, Necross awaits the opportunity to set darkness over the world…
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