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Animation, art & design Québécois based in London, UK Co-founder of Eastend Western RCA MA 2014 eastendwestern.com nicolasmenard.com

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Noguchi's New York — Animated Playgrounds (2026) - YouTube Eastend Western presents five animated films entirely hand painted over 1,800 celluloids, inspired by Isamu Noguchi's unrealized playground proposals for the...

Our hand-painted films for the Noguchi Museum are now live on YouTube! Discover how kids might have enjoyed Noguchi’s unrealized playground designs for NYC. Bon cinéma... youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Beautiful ❤️

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🎥 ↑ 🎥 ↓

Extract from our animations for the Noguchi Museum

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A screenshot of the ending of Pom Poko, where the tanukis who cannot transform carve out a life in the remaining patch of woodland.

A screenshot of the ending of Pom Poko, where the tanukis who cannot transform carve out a life in the remaining patch of woodland.

While my industry is slowly automatising every facet of the process, I reconvene with my fellow tanukis

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It's raining on Noguchi's Contoured Playground. A meditative loop painted on celluloid, and a homage to Hockney taken from our films for the Noguchi Museum. On display until September.

25.02.2026 15:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photograph of a digital line drawing of a swimmer clock made a few years ago

A photograph of a digital line drawing of a swimmer clock made a few years ago

Swimmer clock design

25.02.2026 10:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Smoking in live action is the equivalent of boil in animation

21.02.2026 21:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A still from the animations for the Noguchi Museum. A little girl is reading a book within the triangular steps he designed for the United Nations playground.

A still from the animations for the Noguchi Museum. A little girl is reading a book within the triangular steps he designed for the United Nations playground.

I'll post more about this project over the coming days/weeks..!

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A picture of layered celluloids for the Noguchi Museum animations. Three kids, looking back at the camera, are standing on the steps of "Play Mountain"

A picture of layered celluloids for the Noguchi Museum animations. Three kids, looking back at the camera, are standing on the steps of "Play Mountain"

It was truly a dream project. Co-directed with @jackcunningham.bsky.social, we wanted to echo the material richness of Noguchi’s models. To do so, we turned towards traditional animation techniques and painted over 1,800 celluloids.

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A still from the animation "Riverside Playground" from the exhibition "Noguchi's New York".

A still from the animation "Riverside Playground" from the exhibition "Noguchi's New York".

Noguchi's playground designs exist mainly as beautifully cryptic maquettes. Viewers might wonder how kids would have played within such structures. Our animated films explore the question in narrative and abstract ways.

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Last week, we launched five animations at the Noguchi Museum. If you're in NYC, their new exhibition is on until September and explores Noguchi's relationship with the city, and his rejected playground designs.

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Still from my film "Colorimetry in Motion" (2013)

09.02.2026 16:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really worsens the quality of life around here. Thanks for reporting on this steadily, I wasn't aware of the extension to 2028.

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Love it..!

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Looping film for Loro Piana from 2024

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New exhibition explores Isamu Noguchi's lifelong relationship with New York City The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum announced Noguchi’s New York, on view from February 4–July 5, 2026. Organized on the occasion

A busy start to 2026... animations for the Noguchi Museum incoming 🚨 artdaily.com/news/189662/...

02.01.2026 16:54 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy New Year!

02.01.2026 14:33 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here are the hands of Eve Lloyd Knight hand painting probably our most intricate 3D print so far. Every prop, character and set element was custom built to a made up scale that was convenient to our working space.

19.12.2025 09:40 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Dépanneur sign for the Montreal scene is my fav prop. There are also animated versions which I’ll share soon…

19.12.2025 09:32 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a handcrafted mountain landscape and miniature climbers.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a handcrafted mountain landscape and miniature climbers.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a handcrafted Montreal street with practical lights.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a handcrafted Montreal street with practical lights.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring an Italian beach and miniature figures.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring an Italian beach and miniature figures.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a miniature Algonquin national park camping scene.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a miniature Algonquin national park camping scene.

This year, @jackcunningham.bsky.social & myself launched our film, art and design studio Eastend Western and we’ve been so busy since we haven’t had time to share any new work. If you’re in Canada and spot these Wealthsimple ads, we handmade them over the summer in our compact but mighty workshop.

19.12.2025 09:02 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Some of my old drawings lost to time, collected and sent back to me by Season Cheng.

14.12.2025 11:24 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Nostalgia for our old studio space

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The Battle of San Romano A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th Century; The Battle of San…

The Battle of San Romano by Georges Schwizgebel vimeo.com/656704401

14.12.2025 11:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha, excellente idée!

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9:16

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Still can’t believe 16:9 is a nostalgic ratio

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Beaten to it 5 times

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I’m the coat bath

01.12.2025 21:10 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So good

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