Emmy-nominated animated program “Entergalactic” is set amid a vibrant New York City. Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi voices Jabari, a graffiti artist who has just moved into a new Manhattan apartment after being hired by a comic book company.
He’s just broken up with his ex, Carmen (voiced by Laura Harrier), because he’s too busy to have a personal relationship until he meets his neighbor, Meadow (voiced by Jessica Williams).
In building Jabari’s world, production designer Robh Ruppel created a “blank canvas” for his loft since the character has just moved in. The walls are white, boxes still fill the room, and Jabari’s bike sits against a wall. However, as the story progresses, those boxes become fewer and the space stars to become more personal. Ruppel’s key was how he used color. “You can’t have it everywhere,” he says. “To show a sad evening alone,...
He’s just broken up with his ex, Carmen (voiced by Laura Harrier), because he’s too busy to have a personal relationship until he meets his neighbor, Meadow (voiced by Jessica Williams).
In building Jabari’s world, production designer Robh Ruppel created a “blank canvas” for his loft since the character has just moved in. The walls are white, boxes still fill the room, and Jabari’s bike sits against a wall. However, as the story progresses, those boxes become fewer and the space stars to become more personal. Ruppel’s key was how he used color. “You can’t have it everywhere,” he says. “To show a sad evening alone,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
“Entergalactic,” Netflix’s animated Emmy hopeful created by singer/rapper Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi and Kenya Barris, marks another “Spider-Verse”-influenced breakthrough that stretches the bounds of illustrative 2D to 3D stylization. The aesthetic presents New York City as moving concept art for a modern love story about two artists, Jabari (voiced by Mescudi) and Meadow (voiced by Jessica Williams), presented as a series in five chapters.
Production designer Robh Ruppel (who provided visual development for “Into the Spider-Verse”) did the illustrative world-building in collaboration with director Fletcher Moules and London-based animation studio Dneg, which rewrote its pipeline to translate the concept art into a handmade look. This spanned animation, shading, lighting, compositing, and rendering.
“The free-flowing style fit the idea about an artist in New York,” Ruppel told IndieWire. “So we wanted to portray the world in an artistic fashion that helps illustrate the story.” Creating the concept art conveys the aesthetic through composition,...
Production designer Robh Ruppel (who provided visual development for “Into the Spider-Verse”) did the illustrative world-building in collaboration with director Fletcher Moules and London-based animation studio Dneg, which rewrote its pipeline to translate the concept art into a handmade look. This spanned animation, shading, lighting, compositing, and rendering.
“The free-flowing style fit the idea about an artist in New York,” Ruppel told IndieWire. “So we wanted to portray the world in an artistic fashion that helps illustrate the story.” Creating the concept art conveys the aesthetic through composition,...
- 6/20/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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