L'adaptation de l'image ﬁxe à l'image animée : une approche de recherche-création pour le cinéma d’animation d'auteur
HARVEY is a graphic novel that I illustrated in 2009. As I am adapting this illustrated book into an animated film, I want to question the transfer between these two media within the context of a research-creation study. Which elements of the original source will be kept, modified or excluded in this process? With the research part, my intention is to delineate the adaptation process from a first visual system (the graphic novel) towards a second visual system (the animated short), specifically in terms of aesthetic exchange between a still and an animated image, and in the light of adaptation theories. Besides supplying the creative elements from my process (moodboard, story-board, posing layout and animatic), the creation part also integrates an experimental component as a way of testing theories advocating the expansion of the creative gesture. Through this work, I demonstrate that graphic autoadaptation towards animation is a suitable practice for the exploration of a method of researchcreation, and that this approach always hinges on the navigation of tensions between the control of a message, the media specificities, and the inherent narrativity within the story that is adapted.
Animated film Graphic adaptation Research-Creation Graphic novel