Les Récits Mythologiques

Art direction

Les Récits Mythologiques (Mythological Tales) is a fictional French stop-motion web series I created in 2019 as part of my design studies. Told through metaphorical origami worlds, the series reinterprets Greek myths based on the writings of Adèle Pedrola. The pilot episode is a visual retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, introducing a modular graphic identity designed to adapt across episodes. The series forgoes human characters in favor of a poetic and abstract approach, offering a new perspective on mythological storytelling through papercraft, and showing how myths can be endlessly reimagined through diverse visual language.

Orpheus and Eurydice are portrayed as paper leaves, green on one side and orange on the other, symbolizing their passage between the worlds of the living and the dead.

The mountains symbolize Hades and Persephone, rulers of the Underworld, and evoke Mount Olympus and divine authority.

The river of fish represents the souls of the Styx, and the sailboat stands in for Charon, the ferryman who guides them across.