Renner added that they enlisted the aid of some of the background artists who had worked on Ernest and Celestine. You have to have backgrounds in order to be cinematographic… If you want to use a camera, you have to have a background. And of course, when you do a film you have to change that. I just added watercolor, but there’s almost no backgrounds or very few backgrounds. I mean, the backgrounds, they don’t even exist,” he elaborated, “It’s very spontaneous. “First, the way I drew the graphic novel, it was very quick. And I gave it to my producer, and he immediately wanted to adapt it.”įor Renner, the biggest challenge in adapting the graphic novel for the screen was that, “they’re not the same language,” he says. So I thought it was a good comedy starting point, and I started drawing the story. At some point I decided to make a real graphic novel, and I did ‘Big Bad Fox,’ based on a story I had in my mind for quite a long time - the idea of a fox raising chickens, mistaken as their mother. “I was always playing with the characters,” he says. It started with the duck and the rabbit,” he recounts, describing how he would make the cards as mini-graphic novels, designed to explain why his family members wouldn’t be getting a present that year, (because one of the characters lost it), which became a family tradition he continued into his 20s. “I used to draw them when I was in middle school. Renner explained that the characters have been with him for quite a long time, and that he would draw them as home-made Christmas and birthday cards for his family members. Last year, GKIDS picked up the North American distribution rights to the film, which is currently one of 26 animated features under consideration for a nomination in this year’s Oscar race. It has been nominated for four Annie Awards as well as a Lumiere Award - one of the highest honors in the French film industry.
The first feature to emerge from Folivari, the animation studio headed by Didier Brunner of Les armateurs fame, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales had its world premiere at Annecy 2017. The directing duo previously collaborated on 2012’s Oscar-nominated film Ernest & Celestine. Directed by Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales is a 2D-animated French film based on Renner’s graphic novels that tells the barnyard tales of a Fox who mothers a family of chicks, a Rabbit that acts like a stork, and a Duck who wants to be Santa Claus.
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