#thomas romain

[mikyapixie]

𝙲𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝙻𝚢𝚘𝚔𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝟸𝟸 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚐𝚘 𝚝𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢!!!

[douglasbradburyverne]

Thomas Romain, French animator, redrew characters from his son's drawings

[magicaldogtoto]

A very specific sequence of events.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

Art by the very talented Thomas Romain

[trcelyneart]

OBAN Star Racers 15th Anniversary

Hi fellow Oban fans!

As I said in a previous post, today was the celebration of Oban’s 15th anniversary, which was held in Paris in a little cinema. It was obviously hosted by Savin Yeatman-Eiffel himself, as well as Stanislas Brunet who worked on the mecha and background designs.

So it went like this: Savin made a presentation about the series in itself, how the idea came to be, the first sketches made by himself and his friends, and all the struggles he and Sav! The World studios faced during the production. The hardest part was finding funds to produce the series, since making a single episode can cost up to half a millions euros.

The French VAs of Molly and Aikka were there too, and they redubbed one of the scenes live! The funniest part was that the guy who did Aikka’s voice is a tall, bearded, burly guy with the kind of voice you’d expect from a dude with that build; and yet when he did Aikka’s part I was speechless!!! Then Savin invited two people in stage to redo the dub for fun. The girl who did it had a voice that strangely sounded like Molly’s, but the poor guy who did Aikka’s part probably didn’t remember the passage well despite the subtitles and stammered a lot. But it was nice!

Savin had planned to talk about The Two Queens movie but he didn’t have the time. I asked him about the project afterwards, and he told me that he still wanted to do it, but like Oban, he had troubles funding it. By the time he pitched it, Netflix was not into funding indie projects yet. He also started working on other projects with several studios so The Two Queens had to unfortunately be put on stand-by.

And then. OH THEN. He talked about the thing we ALL wanted to know:

The Sequel

Savin explicitly asked us to not film or take pictures, so I won’t talk about it in detail. But basically there is not one, but THREE project ideas:

1) A sequel based on the picture released back in 2017 with a brand-new plot but still related to the Oban lore. He doesn’t know if the girl would be Molly or Molly’s descendant.

2) An Aikka spin-off prequel. I WAS SO HYPED.

3) A sequel where Molly takes up on Aikka’s offer to visit his planet.

He tested the waters to see which project seemed to please us the most, which was project 1 - I told him, to quote my own words “I’m team Aikka, so my hype for the second project is HELLA BIG, but I honestly won’t care I’m willing to pull out the chekbook as long as it’s Oban related” - and project 2 was rather popular but we suggested he switched media (like making a comic).

I asked him the same question I asked Thomas Romain when I met him at the Japan Expo Sud back in 2018: could we help funding it through Kickstarter for example? Unfortunately, like the original series, we’re talking about millions of euros here so we can’t help that much.

Then we moved on to the next part: VIDEO GAMES. There was a Nintendo DS game originally planned but the studio let him down at the last minute. He showed us some footage of the game which looked quite good (mid-2000s DS game relatively speaking).

He also officially announced that today was released an Oban fangame via Playstation Dreams called Oban Star Racers Dreams by Sky Isle Studios.

There’s also another game - still in its project phase - for PC which would hopefully be released in a few years.

Last but not least: if you guys follow Savin Yeatman-Eiffel on twitter, you might know that he got back the rights of Oban and has been gradually collecting the dubs that had been made (apparently the Brazilian release stopped at ep 18, which means they never got the end!!) to re-release the series as blu-ray. The said blu-ray collection will be up on Kickstarter in Frebruary 2022, with several stretch goals and packs - from the complete OST digital release to packs with original drawings and figurines - so stay tuned!

Although he knows the fandom never died, Savin hopes that we can gather new people and touch a larger public. I suggested for example to release the show on Netflix, because it will find some new public!

[creatiousclick]

Guys we're getting a new production linked to Code Lyoko!!! 😮😯

Français/French: Message aux Lyokofans 🙌

On travaille en effet sur une production en lien avec #CodeLyoko, mais il ne s'agit pas d'une nouvelle série, comme certain·e·s l'auraient souhaité. 👀

🗓️ Sortie courant 2022

💜 Produit par @Cartoon_Fantasy, réalisé par @EliottTordo, feat. @JulienLamass https://t.co/0xMbaqOFo6

English/Anglais: A message to #LyokoFans, we are indeed working on a production linked to Code Lyoko, but it is NOT a new series, as some would have liked.

Current output: 2022

Produced by @CartoonFantasy, directed by @EliottTordo, feat. @JulienLamass https://t.co/0xMbaqOFo6

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[a-queenoffairys]

Thomas Romain did an interview with a French news channel a couple of days ago, sparked by the series arriving on Netflix. He talks about the series’ inspirations, how it was conceived and how it was originally envisioned. There are a few questions and answers about Tania Palumbo as well. Interesting stuff.

I would post a link but Tumblr doesn’t want me to :))) There’s a link on the homepage of CLFR right now where I’ve translated the interview into English.