Raphael Erba is a motion designer and animator whose narrative videos and NFT collections draw on fairy tales, childhood memory and classical music.,,,,Based in Lyon, France, and working through the production studio Alchimeo, he spent several years in commercial motion design and visual effects before starting to release NFT collections in 2023.,,,,,
In 2018 he worked as motion designer on Orange Campus and made Alchimeo Voeux, an audiovisual greeting film built around a character called the Skyflotteur.,In 2020 he conceived, directed and animated Papier de Riz, a short film retelling a Chinese folk tale about an emperor who commissions the painting of a swan, made in Lyon over three weeks without a storyboard.The same year he worked as animator on the short film HÚSTEROS, about how a couple's emotions are shaped by the world around them.,
From 2023 he released a series of narrative collections, including Origami Story, whose chapters follow a hero's journey through trial, love and a mentor's wisdom, and Nuit Blanche, six looping chapters in which a child and his cat confront the moon falling toward earth.,,He has said his daughter inspires his work, evident in the 2023 trilogy Childhood Playfulness, Childhood Melancholy and Childhood Dreams, short vignettes of rain-puddle games, a lost pet and moonlit skies that evoke a child's imagination and its passing.,,,,Here We Art, 2024, pairs titles such as NFT Artist, Crypto Artist and Collector with quotations on art and inspiration from figures including Andy Warhol, Picasso and Oscar Wilde.,In October 2024 his piece Piano Pumpkin was minted on Tezos as part of a curated set of Halloween-themed digital art.In 2025 he paired animation with classical piano pieces, among them works by Chopin, Debussy and Satie, in Piano in Motion.,The same year he explored character design in Chopin in Motion.,In collaboration with the illustrator Bluemeth, he animated MindTrap, a series about psychological and internal fears. On the platform networked.art alone, his output totals more than one hundred works.His work has also been offered through Sotheby's digital-art initiatives Natively Digital and Alchemy, alongside platforms including SuperRare and Manifold.
