Mad Toucans series

the crazy adventure of a band of tucans in the city of Le Havre

Toucans have been seen in the city of Le Havre, mad toucans, flying over the harbour sky.
However, not such a long time ago, they were in the Amazon forest where they lived their happy toucans lives.
They arrived in France, brought by a French poet, who bought them on an illegal wild animals market of a small town, lost somewhere on the forest.
The poet returned home from his trip on the cheapest cargo boat we could find. He kept the birds free inside his cabin. Toucans are very sweet and friendly birds.
They arrived in Le Havre, France on March 2020, at the very beginning of the first lockdown. The pandemic was becoming dangerous. The crew and the few passengers were not aloud to disembark.
After two weeks confined in his ship’s cabin , the french poet decided he should better let the toucans free. What he did…

I – Out of the Amazon

In the Amazon, TOUCANS live their HAPPY TOUCAN lives !
Life can be dangerous in the forest…
…but food is good!
One day, a french traveller, a poet, walking in the forest, came across a small group of TOUCANS
Back in town, he went to the wild animal market What’s the name of those BIRDS? TOUCANS!
He bought 7 TOUCANS
and a few days later, they were on a ship on the way to France
On march 21, the ship arrived in front of the Le Havre’s harbour, a few days after the begining of the first confinement due the COVID19 pandemic. The crew and passengers were not allowed to disembark.
After two weeks trapped in the ship, he had no choice, but free the birds. It was raining… THE TOUCANS WENT MAD! to be continued…

The Mad toucans series is an inspiration and an experience.

The experience is creating a interactif cartoon, draw in Illustrator, transform in SVG and animated with Greensock, a javascript library for web animation.

The inspiration is that I recently came to live in Le Havre, the largest French container port on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine. In 2005, UNESCO inscribed the central city of Le Havre as a World Heritage Site.

That is where the toucans arrived in the year of 2018, brought by a French men, a poet, who travelled in the Amazon rain forest.

This is work in progress.

La série The mad toucans est une inspiration et une expérience.

L’expérience est de créer une bande dessinée interactive. Dessin vectoriel, SVG et animée avec Greensock une librairie Javascript pour l’animation web.

L’inspiration vient de la ville du Havre où je me suis récemment installé.
Le Havre est le plus grand port de conteneurs français sur la rive droite de l’estuaire de la Seine.

En 2005, l’UNESCO a inscrit le centre-ville au patrimoine mondial de l’humanité.

C’est dans cette ville que les toucans sont arrivés en 2018, amenés par un Français, un poète qui rentrait d’un long voyage dans la forêt tropicale amazonienne.

C’est un travail en cours.