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Official selection for best advertising at Annecy Festival 2010!!!

"A Kiss From Tokyo", Theatrical Trailer (1964) - Yuki 7 dashes around the world in hot pursuit of the tantalizingly tricky Diamond Eye, who is stealing parts and plans and leaving behind a path of murdered scientists in her quest to build a missile inside her volcanic lair.

I co-directed it with and for Kevin Dart.
This animation is a part of a promotional event about the release of Kevin's new book, "Seductive Espionage, the world of Yuki 7" which was released in summer 2009.
Kevin produced the graphics and I gave them life in After Effects.

I tried to catch what was typical about the vintage look of the movies from this period. Lighting, grain, old school Special Effects (car chase in a studio with background projected film, miniature sets), editing, old fashion transitions, Music, etc...
Cyrille Marchesseau created a great piece of music inspired by Laurie Johnson (The Avengers) and John Barry (James bond).

Order the book, "Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7" from fleetstreetscandal.com

Become a fan of Yuki 7 at facebook.com/pages/Yuki-7/89892777520

And know more about how the legend came to life at artofthetitle.com/2009/07/13/a-kiss-from-tokyo/

LINKS

Kevin Dart
kevindart.com

Cyrille Marchesseau
cyrillemarchesseau.com

Credits

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  • james wignall 2 years ago
    Great stuff chaps!
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  • Guille Comin 2 years ago
    Very nice!,
    love de colour palette
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  • Vance Reeser 2 years ago
    Really wonderful. The light bleeds are inspired!
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  • Mbithi Masya 2 years ago
    That is bloody excellent!
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  • Ross Phillips 2 years ago
    yes!
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  • middle mind project plus 2 years ago
    great job...love the look and animation
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  • Marquis Mosley 2 years ago
    I love the vintage-style! Hope to see more!
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  • Fourchinnigan plus 2 years ago
    It turned out really well.
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  • eric alba 2 years ago
    very nice. well done on the vintage feel.
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  • William J. Meyer plus 2 years ago
    :)
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  • eladbari 2 years ago
    Gosh! this is Gorgeous! :]
    u wanna tell me youve used the puppet tool the whole time? if so..youve a puppet-Master!! :] kinda tough tool to use!
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  • Jasmina Mathieu 2 years ago
    encore une fois congratulats!!
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  • PCZ 2 years ago
    Great!!!
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  • Alex Amelines 2 years ago
    fantastic work! really great look!
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  • Simon Bronson plus 2 years ago
    From the design, animation, transitions and treatment you guys nailed the 60's retro look.
    This is something I wish I'd pulled off.
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  • Aritz Aizpurua 2 years ago
    Brilliant work. Really like the retro style.
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  • How yeah!
    amazing shots!
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  • holke79 2 years ago
    love it ! love it ! love it !
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  • Nice retro style indeed. Good research is important as i can see. Well done!
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  • Jonathan Vuillemin 2 years ago
    Super chouette!
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  • hehehe cinescope and chromalux! hehehe that's fkn brilliant
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  • Prorevolution Films 2 years ago
    with the video footage was that an easy task to match up and shoot? or did you pull it from somewhere?

    great work.
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  • Simon Prager 2 years ago
    nice graphic style! well done.
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  • Rawls 2 years ago
    Awesome work Stephane!!!
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  • Dipi.tv 2 years ago
    Me enamore!
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  • Diego Pardo 2 years ago
    great work!!!
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  • marcorecuero 2 years ago
    genial!!!
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  • Scott Gribble 2 years ago
    amazing, you nailed it! spot on!
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  • Charles Huettner 2 years ago
    hey thats a really fantastic animation you got there. the illustrations are great, and the retro effects are perfect.

    masterful after effects work
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  • Nicolas Plaire plus 2 years ago
    Quite an amazing video James Bond style!
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  • Antoine Perez 2 years ago
    impressionant
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  • francois pons 2 years ago
    j'adore, great style ^^
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  • Marcelo Papf 2 years ago
    I like this vintage look! Great job!Congrats!!! =D
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  • Kyle Jones plus 2 years ago
    love the not so smooth transition at :57
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  • Zoosh 2 years ago
    Nice! You've NAILED the retro vibe!
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  • Robo 2 years ago
    I've been a fan of Kevin's for quite a while. Your animation does his work justice. The grain is perfect. The action, especially the old school car chase, is great. And Marchesseau has the whole John Barry/Lailo Schrifin/Hoyt Curtin vibe down-pat. The video perfectly captures Kevin's retro spy-fi.
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  • M.J. Sister 2 years ago
    WOW!!!!!! Awesome!! I like so much.
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  • Sean McDonald 2 years ago
    I love this!
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  • Ayz Waraich plus 2 years ago
    That vintage look is spot-on. I love those classic anamorphic focus changes... very nice guys.
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  • Jason Coursey plus 2 years ago
    Fantastic job.
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  • Luis Arbit 2 years ago
    style action and seduction. Greater.
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  • Howard Berry plus 2 years ago
    Oh my gosh I LOVE this! As a huge fan of the old ITC shows which really helped define the spy-fi genre, you've really nailed it. Fantastic!
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  • Beatriz Iglesias 2 years ago
    Awesome job! Congrats! :D
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  • Gabe Dill plus 2 years ago
    yuki - my dream girl.
    this trailer made my heart beat so fast... "it feels like love drops."
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  • Brian Barber plus 2 years ago
    Wow. The attention to the little details from that era is soooo amazing. You totally captured the feel and the style. Really really well-done.
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  • Karen Abad plus 2 years ago
    This was really well made. I like it a lot.
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  • Luke Pygman 2 years ago
    This is incredible! You guys are very talented! It reminds me of a cross between a Bond film and a Hitchcock film haha...
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  • Robert Huston 2 years ago
    Very groovy, I enjoyed how direct the typography interacts with the symbolic imagery. Such as "dangerous" with the shooting of the gun and "seductive" with the unclothed woman. And the helicopters off in the distance at the end of the trailer are nice.
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  • ROLLER ▼ MONKEY 2 years ago
    great style...
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  • Striposcope 2 years ago
    Kevin has got a strong sense of composition and the animation pays a very good homage to the genre. I love the car sequence with the fake background + sexy Bond music!
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  • Kristian Kristensen 2 years ago
    wow, this is looks so cool. I'm crazy about this retro-style. But but the coolest thing is that it's, at the same time, both dangerous and seductive.
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  • Daniel Werneck 2 years ago
    Very nice work. Was the design inspired by Tadahiro Uesugi?
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  • Guillaume c. 2 years ago
    Groovy anf funky, it's a real pleasure to see this one !!
    congrats, i really like this retro-style !

    bravo stephane, ça déchire !!!
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  • ranran 2 years ago
    i cant get enough of this
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  • Levi McConnell 2 years ago
    WOW! Love the "SEDUCTION" edit - and those colors! NICE!!!
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  • Ed Burdick 2 years ago
    What stood out most for me were the fantastic lighting effects.

    + the lights behind the legs on the walkway
    + the lights pulsing around on the world domination computer screens
    + the steamy soft light on the seduction bit.

    Great work...
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  • Russell Higham 2 years ago
    Total class! i.love.it.
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  • jake armstrong 2 years ago
    Man I love this short! The style, the drawings, the film cutting, all of it's way top notch. I want to see a whole movie of this!
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  • TONAL 2 years ago
    Excellent job, mite.
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  • JuanDeco 2 years ago
    Congratuilations, this proyect is cool. I really like the art.
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  • Jared Flynn 2 years ago
    Found this piece on Art of the Title; I must have watched it twenty times over now. Really, really fantastic! Great fusion of styles... everything from the hand-drawn art to the tweened animation to the spectacular post effects, it all really feels like it belongs together. Bravo!
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  • Kyle Wrobel 2 years ago
    This is mind blowingly awesome.
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  • Nikio 2 years ago
    Wonderful!!!
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  • Stefan Fjeldmark 2 years ago
    Awesome!
    I saw your trailer and bought the book.
    It aught to be made into a feature or series.
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  • Tydal Canon 2 years ago
    Fantastic!
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  • Found Object Films 2 years ago
    I love the simulated anamorphic bokeh on the focus pulls.
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  • Igor Stanojevic plus 2 years ago
    Wow, spectacular! LOVE the rear projection.
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  • Alex Amelines 2 years ago
    Hey Stephane, a group of animators and I recently started a portal dedicated to character animation. I love your stuff and it would be great if you joined us to show/promote your work.

    Animators are our main audience and I'm sure many would like to learn from and be inspired by your work.

    onehugeeye.com
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  • ben hicks plus 2 years ago
    killer stuff. Those first 5 seconds were created digitally?
  • Stephane coedel plus 2 years ago
    Thanks a lot!, yes it was :)
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  • Peter Nagy plus 2 years ago
    Wonderful!
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  • Adam Palmer 2 years ago
    Your work is simply awesome.
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  • kay saith 2 years ago
    it's very very cool , i like it
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  • Matt White 2 years ago
    This is great! I LOVE the style of it!
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  • Frederic Vercammen plus 2 years ago
    I love the James Bond style
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  • SayakaK 2 years ago
    sweet
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  • Brandon James Scott 2 years ago
    so good dude
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  • Amael Isnard 2 years ago
    belle realisation, les couleurs sont au top, les "ambiances retro" marchent super bien.
    sinon bravo pour l'ensemble de ton taff. j'aime bien tes menus dvd (Ran !), le color board de Kid Cole and Clay, et ton boulot sur rockband beatles (ah la la j'aurais adoré participer a cette cinematique). voila voila...bonne continuation
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  • Andrew Hake 2 years ago
    Love the rough edged look, such a good 60s vibe. Loved Roman Coppola's "Dragonfly" and love this as well.

    Your vimeo page has been entertaining me for hours, thanks so much for posting up all the great videos!

    I would love to see some of the making of or the work coming together if at all possible.

    As an animator and someone that loves to work on shorts, I am always so intrigued so see every little detail.

    Love it!
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  • David Lynn 2 years ago
    You nailed the look from that genre and time. I love the music as well.
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  • Mike Owens 2 years ago
    I love this so much
    it hurts me
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  • teledisk 2 years ago
    Amazing... WANT THE FILM!! :D
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  • Jason Hearne 2 years ago
    Good to see more people using after effects for Cartooning. Flash is great, but it's not the only tool... Fantastic work
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  • Peter Bunzl plus 2 years ago
    awesome!
    I love your work.
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  • Camilo Moncada 1 year ago
    Beautiful little film, Stephane. How did you achieve the anamorphic bokeh? Is there an After Effects plugin for that?
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  • Tim Roberts 1 year ago
    Excellent!
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  • Lewis Fraga 1 year ago
    That is fantastic! You really captured all the right nuances from the period - well done and congrats on the Annecy Fest!
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  • Santiago Bohemia 1 year ago
    Amazing!!! Where did you find the music for the video? How did you make it sound old or original?
  • Stephane coedel plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Santiago,
    the music was composed by Cyrille Marchesseau and inspired by a track from "The Avengers" TV series.
    you can have more details about the making of this animation and its sound design on the website:
    artofthetitle.com/2009/07/13/a-kiss-from-tokyo/
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  • Erwin Argh 11 months ago
    Amazing, awesome, great work, I do learn so much from your work, thank you!
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  • varick plus 8 months ago
    Hell yes. This is amazing. Love Kevin's work! Way to bring it to life!
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  • DHProd 7 months ago
    Love!
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  • lopezlucero 6 months ago
    ReeaallyGreat!
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  • Sasha Fornari plus 6 months ago
    awesome style!!!! great vintage look with interesting typography. kudos!!
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  • Wardan Tiple 4 months ago
    :-) I liked this animation, wonderful!!!
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  • Éric Dorchain 2 months ago
    Great Stuff Stephane !

    I added to K I N O
    vimeo.com/channels/kino
    You're Welcome !

    oOÉRIC
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