You’ll eat of Star Wars for more than a month now before the long-awaited a new episode release. The Minimiam so clings to the outer train tribute to films that have become true icons of popular culture.

We have often said that our images aroused something from our childhood. It’s a playful aspect, which is of course no exception to children, especially to my daughter, who two months ago, submits me a simple idea: “you know, Dad, the ships of the empire, they look a bit like pieces of pizza. You should do something with your figures.”

This famous idea needed to be action, history. A duel between Yoda and Darth Vader seemed the most emblematic.
Brilliant, dazzling idea even! As for simplicity, is something else.

Realize the characters of the famous saga at this scale is much longer than I would have thought. Yoda on this scale is smaller than a fly.
Princess Leia here is a pizza delivery and Chewi in ambush behind the crust.

As the title suggests, the famous brand of Pizza with only one T in his Hut, to served as a model for the ship, because just as American as film production, one might wonder if George Lucas wasn’t a fan of the franchise? For those who are not familiar with the Saga, in the third episode (years 1983, return of the Jedi, become the episode VI.) the villain Jabba the Hutt is an antagonist become essential although not present in the saga.

As well, as all science fiction film, photo does not escape “special effects”, which take more time than shooting in post-production it even.

For purists, excuse the duel between Vader and Yoda, it never took place.

That appetite is with you!

Clea is a student in a high school in Paris. One of his teacher was part of my promotion to Arts Décoratifs de Paris, and so she steered Clea who knew our work.

So that’s working with another person. Being not pedagogue and believing that I have not much to teach to my work, it took me a lot of resources to give a dimension of learning at this stage.

Fortunately Clea is a young girl full of curiosity with a general culture that was well beyond my expectations. So it was very rewarding to me.

At the end of the course I suggested to Clea to make an image “minimiam” style with the elements she wanted. I was not disappointed!

In this close-up, we selected two characters we symbolizing. Clea in post production has remade her hairstyle and apart from the clothing, it’s really her.

The great idea of Clea, was to take as object principal and spray of bleach (Javel) is in the studio to change the typography. To illustrate her photo placement, she is get in my collection of toy camera to make a background. Here is the sketch.

The construction of the image has been source of trade volumes, colours and light.
I find, in the end, the very successful photo of Clea. Bravo.

I wish a good creative road to this young talent.

The Kobe Frantz chocolatier offers us the privilege of producing new images for his communication.

For this we need to transform some figures to better to get closer to the subject.
Before and after.

But who is Kobe Frantz?
The answer here

To be continued…