Upside-Down Kingdom
Every year in Montevideo, Uruguay, there's a carnaval contest that longs for forty days or so. There are five different categories that compete to win: murgas, comparsas, revistas, parodistas and humoristas. The last one are comedians and they have dance and sing and tell a story full of jokes. I get to create the visuals for the back screens that function as scenery and the story is about an Upside-Down Kingdom -obviously a reference Uruguay since carnaval is mostly about to parody politics- so I developed this kingdom based in the colors they used in their dresses -greens, yellow and red- and butterflies and flowers based in their hats ornaments. I also used palm trees since is a typical tree in uruguay and parody our nacional symbols using greens and flowers insted of blue an suns for instance. The work was done in a couple of weeks and I used Photoshop for the backgrounds and After Effects for the videos.
The Upside-Down Kingdom as "viewed" from people's point of view.
At the royal square of the Upside-Down kingdom there's a town meeting
At the Therapist
There's trouble at the border with Customs. And it's Holiday season!
At the road
Masks and Make Up as symbols of the Artists. This was an emotional song at the end of the show.
Image animated to give place to the final video and outro. As you can see the butterfly-mask flies from his face to give place to a red screen and the Outro video.
Video Outro. In this case there was a song with an uptempo and very uplifting mood to end the show.
Visualized as seen in the theater. The displays are order from 1 to 5 with one big central panel and four smaller but taller ones at both sides. In this case I decided that lateral panels should have different animation than the central screen.
This should be the end video with King Cyrano and "assistants" dancing to the music. As I said before it was abandoned because of time restrictions. The video should have only ten seconds and loop. So we decided to go with the logos instead.
All the symbols used during the show were born from the colors used on dresses: red, yellow and two greens. Also, the butterfly and flowers appear on hats. In that way I designed all the imagery.
Cyranos live in competition 2023