Netflix's 'The Monkey King' - 2D Sequence | Golden Wolf

When Netflix came a-knockin and wanted to know if we could help with their upcoming feature film The Monkey King, we couldn’t say yes fast enough!

The film, directed by Oscar nominee Anthony Stacchi, is an exciting, action-packed retelling of the classic Chinese tale: Journey to the West, and working closely with the Netflix team we were tasked with creating a unique vision for Monkey’s demon-fighting montage sequence - a complete stylistic break from the rest of the film and one heavily inspired by traditional Chinese brushwork.

With a lot of blood, sweat and more hand-painted frame-by-frame brush strokes than you can shake a Wacom pen at (yes we did it the HARD way), we created something bold, fluid, tactile, action packed, and ultimately….something we’re all extremely proud of!

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CREDITS:
PRODUCTION
Executive Creative Director: Ingi Erlingsson
Creative Director: Ewen Stenhouse
Supervising Producer: Tan Jones
Supervising Producer: Dotti Sinnott
Production Manager: Lucy Caetano
Production Assistant: Danielle Bordelon
Talent Director: Henry Purrington

DESIGN
Design: Mikhail Kalinin
Design: Simon Leclerc
Design: Yujia Wang
Colour Script: Dan Burgess, Lap Pun Cheung
Layouts: Gaia Lamiot

ANIMATION
Animation Lead: Maxime Delalande
Animation: Charles Badiller
Animation: Stephanie Mercier
Animation: Diego Porral
Animation: Mourad Elias Seddiki
Animation: Kensei Thomas
Animation: Alain Vu
Animation: Tim Whiting
Animation Clean Up: Jennifer Belobi
Animation Clean Up: Eric Bradford
Animation Clean Up: Thomas Eide
Animation Clean Up: Myra Hild
Animation Clean Up: Mila Obelleiro
Technical Director / Compositing Lead: Ian Pinder
Compositing: Stefan Ahmad
Compositing: Karl Fekete
Compositing: Gabrielle Locre
Compositing: Laurence Parsons
Compositing: Thomas Purrington
Compositing: John Taylor