Simsalagrimm

Original titel: Happily N’ever After

Full lenght cgi feature film · 87 minutes

Release: 16. December 2006, Westwood, California
Production Co: Lions Gate Entertainment [US], BFA Berlin Animation Film, BFC Berliner Film Companie, Vanguard Films
Voices: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prince jr., Sigourney Weaver

Happily N´ever After on IMDb

Visual development · concept design · production design · 2000 – 2002

First visual development regarding the rough skript ideas of the feature film projekt 'Happily N'ever After'. Landscape around Sleeping Beautys castle

First visual development regarding the rough skript ideas of the feature film projekt 'Happily N'ever After'. Sleeping Beautys bed

First visual development regarding the rough skript ideas of the feature film projekt 'Happily N'ever After'. Sleeping Beautys castle covered with roses

First visual development regarding the rough skript ideas of the feature film projekt 'Happily N'ever After'. Landscape inspired by Breugel's painting `Harvesters´

First visual development regarding the rough skript ideas of the feature film projekt 'Happily N'ever After'. Landscape sketch inspired by Breugel's Paintings

First visual development regarding the rough skript ideas of the feature film projekt 'Happily N'ever After'. Landscape around new england.

Visual development

My job was to produce the first visual concept from the rough script – to introduce a graphical style and to design the main locations. The story was about Grimms fairytales (first volume of the first edition of Grimms ‚Kinder- und Hausmärchen‘ published 1812). Therefore, the design was influenced by and related to the epoch of the old european artists like e.g Breugel (1525/30-1569), Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). More modern and at the same time fairytalish ideas are related to the architectural style of Antoni Gaudi­ (1852-1926). A further source of inspiration came from the ‚Hudson River School‘ of American landscape paintings – a mid-19th century movement whose asthetic vision was influenced by romanticism.

Storyline

Cinderella defends the fairytale world from an evil alliance, lead by her stepmother.

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