Raphael Erba: About

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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.^,

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.