00:00It was Covid and I thought okay we're living in a really bad science-fiction
00:11movie right now maybe it's our fault people that tell science-fiction stories
00:15you know because we only imagine the worst so only the worst happens it's
00:19easy to criticize things say this is bad I said okay I'm fed up with that I want
00:24to be with the kids like making sandcastles in the beach not the ones
00:29that are breaking them you know and one day I drew a face and and put the
00:34colors behind him getting out of the sky and and then yeah it was the start of
00:38everything well I was lucky enough to come in when there was already a 40
00:47minute or so animatic the director's vision was so clear and so beautiful
00:54aesthetically and the story was so profound and meaningful independent
01:00animation is not a very easy world but we were like this has to exist before
01:08Natalie and Sophie arrived we were a small team like four people four five people
01:12working on the movie drawing it and making music and sounds after finishing the
01:16animatic it took us one year and two months with a with 250 people to make all
01:21the images and to to finish the sound to see the hand-drawn nature of what you go
01:27does is extraordinary you're watching this emotional journey you're also having
01:33an aesthetic journey Wow it looks just like home my line is really from flash
01:39garden the thickness of it I'm a French and European reader and I discovered
01:45Japanese animation when I was seven with Dragon Ball Z and then met the work of
01:49Miyazaki at Ghibli I lived in Guatemala Chad and Mexico my colors were really
01:55impacted by living abroad in Guatemala and Mexico they blend the colors in such a
02:00weird way you know in Chad it's really another way so I think it's a mix of a
02:05worldwide culture there is a little bit citizen of the world but also stranger
02:11everywhere you can see that with Hugo's work that he has such a unique vision and
02:16way of seeing what's your name mine's Iris what year is it it's 2075 I think
02:23animation is so incredible because every opportunity is at your fingertips when
02:28you're doing a voice you can be anyone Mickey is the robot nanny the mother and
02:33father voices are blended for Mickey's voice for the English language version it's a
02:40mix of my voice and Mark Ruffalo's voice everything all right I can't sleep make a
02:48little room for me okay and it was amazing to to build a new voice based on two personalities in
02:54the French version we we modelized the voices of the two actors I thought okay it's a robot so
02:59let's let's use the voice of robots which is AI in fact and it was too perfect and it didn't work
03:05we had to go back and to and to do it with hands you know cutting the voices it's upsetting to see
03:12the parents only showing up as holograms but it's also beautiful to see that a robot can be caring and
03:18nurturing Hugo's vision shows us that our imagination can help us build a more beautiful future we rely way
03:31too much on calculation and and if we want to create a better world I think we have to rely
03:36on imagination happiness and joy bring happiness and joy and pain just brings more pain you know
03:43light is hard to bring in the world but it's worth giving a try
04:01blur to bring in the world so that everyone can help us be able to be able to encourage you yeah
04:05stay up just for those moments
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