This commercial duo for Nissan brings you back to the good old days, when people wouldn’t mind telling you fairytales, and you wouldn’t mind believing them. My artwork helped bring this fantastic world to life.

The trees are playing outside in this film and accompany a mother and her baby daughter on their ride through an enchanted and beautiful summer landscape.

There was a lot of creative discussion about how humanoid the trees should be made. In the end, I settled for something that was quite realistic in looks, but drew a lot of character from its vivid animation style.

The result was a 40sec TVC for the Japanese market.