Big picture Valley – Urban War
Author: Robert Valley
Size: 18 x 18 cm
Printing: offset
Paper: Rives Tradition
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– Robert Valley is a Canadian artist with an inimitable, fluid and angular style. An animation virtuoso, he was nominated for the 2017 Oscars for his short film Pear Cider & Cigarettes. The excellent comic book Pear Cider & Cigarettes is published by Éditions Akileos (2016). In the USA it is published by DC Comics & Heavy Metal Magazine.
– Director, illustrator, designer, animator, Robert Valley is a genius jack-of-all-trades who has greatly influenced graphics, advertising, comics and music videos: he is primarily responsible for the animation of Gorillaz music videos with Jamie Hewlett, from The Beatles Rock Band game intro and has done commercials for Nike.
– He recently directed the very remarkable animated short film Zima Blue, visible on Netflix, in the series Love, Death & Robots, volume one, then Ice for Love, Death & Robots, volume two.
– He is currently working on a documentary about John Belushi (to be released in 2021) and the Netflix animated series Agent King.
– Also discover his Sketchbook Valley, available on this site, which reveals the universe of his comic Massive Swerve, the making-of of his short film of the same name, short stories, as well as fascinating research and sketches as each other.