As the animation team came together to adapt Charlie Mackesy’s 2019 book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, the challenge for art director Mick McCain was to recreate Mackesy’s artistic style in motion.
The animated short follows a boy searching for a home. Along the way, he meets three animals who are also looking for a place to belong and begin to develop a bond.
While McCain hadn’t had much experience with ink lines and watercolors at the start of the project, he had Mackesy helping to guide the animation to capture his “fluid and gestural” style.
By the end of the project, McCain and the animators created hundreds of backgrounds for the animation. DEADLINE: How did you get involved with the The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse? MIKE MCCAIN: Cara [Speller, producer] reached out after she had seen some of the painting studies that I’ve been doing on Instagram and ArtStation.
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