Project Eve

Project Eev is a fan-animation project with a certain ambition I must admit. It will be an adaptation of the indie rpg horror game Ib, which is a masterpiece.

What is the meaning of an adaptation? An adaptation is surely not a perfect copy of the original work. Things will be changed, as for example the name of the main character. Theses changes happened for three reasons ; 

A film is not a video-game, so the narration must be altered for it to be as fascinating to watch as it is to play.

Why even bother doing a movie if it’s a conform copy of something already perfect as it is? None. This is why, and we come to the last point, it need a clear aim.

The story will be altered because I have my vision of this story I love. I will do everything possible to keep the spirit of the game but things will change.

Why Eve and not Ib? To be sincere I seriously hesitated to change her name, put, and this is one of my statements, I want the story to be culturally re-centered in England. Gary and Mary both have english sounding name and most of the fans know that Ib’s real translation would be Eve. So Eve it is!

What are your statements?

The story is based in England, contemporary to our time, or so...

Ib will be named Eve

Weiss Guertena was contemporary to Pablo Picasso (Since his name might be a hint to Guernica), born in the early 1900s he saw both world war one AND two. Weiss is a german name so his art was marked with pain and suffering. He might even have been one of the artists Nazi’s censored, hens the lost creations that can only be found in the fabricated world. He died without finishing his last painting.

Mary is an unfinished piece of art. She will mostly be herself but I want to accentuate her merry and playful personality. Even if she is older than 10 she had nothing to educated her so she stayed at a 10 years old mental age.

The museum is not ABOUT Guertena’s work. It’s an exhibition only.

Gary will know be a student at the Beaux-Arts, hens the fact he also fall in the fabricated world. He is 20, young, unsure, usual Gary. He as a strong liking for art in general, even if he doesn't truly understand it, as he his still young and naïve. 

Eve is a very stoic character in the game, but as you might imagine, it won’t work in a film point of view. So i could give her more emotions but that’s not what I’ve decided. I think Eve will be autistic. She doesn’t talk much, she has strange ways to show her emotions and she will be really sensitive to art, hens her falling into the fabricated world. It will create a real alchemy between her, a real person who is hard ton apprehend, and Mary, a creation that paradoxically feel more “alive” than Eve. On the surface of course. 

The animation will be a mixe between 3D for the character and 2D to enhance the immersion into Guertena’s tortured artistic world.

If you have any question I will glad to answer !

for ib’s outfit i personally really love her original look but it’d also be cool to see something different since it is your interpretation of it all!! i really liked the dress with the suspender things (idk the proper name LMAO) and also the outfit from the very last photo you inserted!

but both look somewhat similar to mary’s original outfit :/ idk what you’re doing with mary but i’d just keep that in mind!!

anyway, whether you go with something closer to the original or something that looks different, im sure it’ll look great!!!!! 🥺💘💕💞

good luck with your work!!

Hello ! Thank you very much for your opinion! I also love her original look truth to be told, but it was a little to japanese looking so I think I will settle on 1, 2 and 4 for further tests. 1 and 2 are variation of Ib's original costume (2 having a cardigan on top of her shirt) and 4, the skirt with suspenders is also a fun and unique looks for her. Thanks to you I can discarde the other proposition because indeed, if Eve has a red dress it could be too similar to Mary's own dress.

As for Mary I intend to accentuate the difference with Eve's not only in the color, but also with the global shape. As you can see Eve's looking like à rectangle, long straight splitted skirt, classy "modern" Clothes... If I could even a tie would suit her, but I'm afraid it would be to school uniform looking 🤔

Mary will be dressed as a doll, Or at least heavely inspired by 50's dress style for children ! So puffy skirt and sleeves, all round looking, even maybe with a cute pattern ! (Still green of course) I'll attached bellow some pictures taken from pinterest to illustrate what I have in mind!

Anyway a huuuuuuge thank you to you for helping me making the project move ☺❤ I'm so afraid doing things wrong and adaptation is such a scary and difficulte things to do. I Hope I will deceive less people possible, but anyway, I'll do my best !!

Second research for the lady un red inspired by Endre Bartos this time ! I like his use of vibrant colors, huge paint stroke and geometric approach to the body. I don't think I quite suceed this time but anyway! The bottom one is my favorit this time around.

The poses are inspired by a drawing found on Pinterest which listes à deleted tumblr as it's source : ch1aki-nanami.tumblr.com

Today is about testing things for the lovely Lady in red ! I've draw her in the classic fashion and couldn't get out of my head that she was a red version of the ghost in the ring. Well considering kouri is Japanese (if I'm notre wrong) no wonder his monsters are so deeply rooted in the japanese culture. Thought it's not a bad approche I think there is far better things to do with a painted monster drawn by an expressionnist artist in our case. So cue the reasearches.

The game here is to take references of an actual expressionnist artist and try to apply his style to our nice lady here. The first one I tried was Tsuguharu Foujita, because of the double nationality in his style, part japanese. I love how creepy looking the character can get when wwe start to forget about symetry and beauty standards. Because I must add ; it's and a search for what is aestheticly pleasing to the eye. Especially with expressionnism.

The madona approche seems full of potential, I like it quite a lot.

Some researches for the woman in red. I'm going for a 40's look for her because of Guertena's periode of living.

But who is the Lady in Red ?

A popular theory is that the lady in red and her variations were Guertena's lovers. In the game it is said that she was a Lady who tried yo seduce and marry him for money.

My personnal interpretation would be a mix in between.

Guertena fell in love with her after she seduced him. He painted her a first time as the embodiment of passion and love, hens the red.

But after a while he discovered her true motive and broke his relation with her as well as his heart. That's were he painted the blue variation. To represent sadness.

But then came bitterness and the Lady in green. He depicted the money hungry woman she was, hens the green, color of greed.

At last, and this is more strechted out, I theorise Guertena's was a controvesial artist in nazi Germany. Out of spite, because she couldn't married rich the woman denonced him as a degenerated artist. Most of his work, as a result, as been burned. (that would explained the fear of fire of the gallery and Mary. ) only being concerved the lady in red which was acceptable. This Is why only this variation is shown in the museum (along side with more recent works) but Guertena painted a last version of this lady he once loved. The lady in yellow, which represented her treason towards him (as yellow is often used to depicte Judas in christianisme). She is the most powerful and monster looking of the four versions because He painted all his sorrow and bitterness towards her and love, and maybe a beautiful life he dreamed of where he would have a little girl, named Mary. The yellow Version represent this dead dream.

Oh thanks a lot for the encouragment!! I'm so afraid doing a bad job retranscribing how amazingly deep the game can be, will not being entirely faithful to it due to adaptation>< I hope I won't deceive fans of the games 😣 but here à little drawing of a mischievious (and older looking) Mary to thank you !

Mary - Face modelsheet

THANKS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO JOINED ! I’m so glad I can share this project ! >w<

Do you love the game Ib ?

Then you might be interested by one of my project

Eve’s face

Sooo this is a model sheet, which mean I must do a neutral expression. Good ! Because Eve will probably have a neutral expression a lot, compared to Mary XD I wanted for her an atypical design, and of course not inspired by japanese culture (Though Lupin III prove that manga style in 3D is just soooooooooo good !!!) But in this project it would has it’s place for two reason ; first we’re basing the story in England, second we don’t need crazy cartoony expression. We need subtility and poetry. Hens her semi realistic face.