The Eisner Award winner 'The Property', a graphic novel by Rutu Modan was adapted to film on 2024. It is a comedy, drama, romance story about Regina, and her granddaughter Mica, traveling to Warsaw in an effort to retrieve the property of the family, that was left behind during the seconded world war. Of course everything goes wrong, especially when Mica meets Tomasz, a young pole dreaming of becoming a comics artist, while working as a tour guide to Jewish Warsaw.
I was asked to create Tomasz's sketchbook - a prop of high importance in the plot. The task was exceptionally difficultly since there was now post edit of the drawing digitally. They had to be drawn straight to the sketchbook itself, and in quite a tight schedule, if I might add.
In his sketchbook Tomasz tries to adapt the historic Polish uprising against the Nazis to comics, but his plan changes, and he decides to shift the plot of his graphic novel to Mica's family exceptional story.
Tomasz's drawings were a key turning point in the movie, and had to be easily recognizable and very clear.
I drew more than a hundred drawing in the sketchbook, studding historic photos and reference material, but as things in the film business goes, only some got into the film. But hey, I got into the trailer!
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Sketches & Other materials
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