In early 2008 Prada premiered Trembled Blossoms, an animated short film conceived by artist James Jean to showcase Prada's Spring collection. 

James had called me to see if I could illustrate the storyboards for the project that was on a bit of a tight deadline.  I was pretty excited by the work James had already done for Prada and jumped right on.  I created the boards and designed some of the flora and fauna that appear in the film.  The final illustrations were based on compositional roughs that James had provided.

Prada ended up printing all of the boards in a comic book format that were given away at  the premiere of the film at their flagship store in New York.

I really liked the story and world James had come up with and still enjoy the pre-production artwork he and I created in such a short amount of time. 

Here are the boards in their entirety with some larger images of some of my favorites. 

You can watch Trembled Blossoms below or check it out on Prada's site.