Lea Dabssi

Lea Dabssi, also known as Imalou, is a French freelance artist, visual development artist, and character designer. They served as a character designer and 2D character designer on the My Little Pony Generation 5 film My Little Pony: A New Generation.__NOTOC__
Dabssi is notable among the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic fandom as a fan artist, having made artwork inspired by the series since 2011. They became involved with A New Generation through Pablo R. Mayer, head of visual development at Boulder Media and production designer on the film, and Jorge Alonso de Román, senior character modeler on the film. Mayer and de Román discovered Dabssi through their ArtStation portfolio in August 2017, particularly their art of Featherweight and Mistmane. Mayer reached out to Dabssi and invited them to join the film's production team.
Dabssi worked on the film from October 2017 to September 25, 2020; their time spent working on the film was originally supposed to be nine months, but it ended up being three years. Among their contributions to the film are the character designs for Sunny Starscout, Izzy Moonbow, and Sprout; the 2D-animated prologue featuring the Mane Six; Pipp Petals' smartphone; and the Horns, Harry Trotter, and Dirty Prancing parody posters.
Dabssi's other professional credits include being a concept artist on Funplus' mobile game Family Farm, a concept artist on a mobile game by the Berlin-based company Wooga, a character designer on the French animated series Treasure Trekkers, and a concept artist/character designer on the TeamTO-produced animated series Jade Armor.
==Gallery==
Mane Six concept art 1 by Lea Dabssi.png|Dabssi's concept art of the Mane Six in A New Generation.
Sunny Starscout concept art 1 by Lea Dabssi.png|Dabssi's concept art of Sunny Starscout.
Izzy Moonbow concept art by Lea Dabssi.jpg|Dabssi's concept art of Izzy Moonbow.
Hitch Trailblazer concept art by Lea Dabssi.jpg|Dabssi's concept art of Hitch Trailblazer.
Pipp and Zipp concept art 1 by Lea Dabssi.jpg|Dabssi's concept art of Zipp Storm and Pipp Petals.
Sprout concept art 2 by Lea Dabssi.jpg|Dabssi's concept art of Sprout.
Maretime Bay poster concepts by Lea Dabssi.jpg|Dabssi's designs of parody movie posters.
==See also==
*Crew
==External links==
*Dabssi's Twitter profile
*Dabssi's Twitter art account
*Dabssi's DeviantArt account
*Dabssi's Instagram account
*Dabssi's YouTube channel
*Dabssi on LinkedIn (English/French)
==References==