ARTIST BIO

Raphael Thebaud is an Illinois based multimedia artist with a focus on 2d animation and editing, Wanting to express unique movement and capture life through his art. Taking inspiration from a multitude of famous early 2000’s Japanese animators such as Yutaka Nakamura and Norio Matsumoto, Raphael aims to represent the microexpression of movements through his work. Observing everyday things as inspiration for animation and his overall works. 

Raphael started art due to the medium of animation and the expressive storytelling it conveys. Starting as a self taught traditional artist recreating drawing youtube tutorials in notebooks, he  later gained a foundational art education later in high school, focusing on depictions of fantasy stories through ink and digital mediums. 

Now enrolled in N.I.U Raphael seeks to increase his knowledge on the mediums of art he has always enjoyed and continue to refine his foundations, with the belief that solid foundations allow for flexibility in success.