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Not so retired operative

Posted on February 2, 2026  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Character design, Comics, Drawings, Uncategorized

I joined an evening illustration class at the start of the year at the Saint Luc adult learning center and being in Belgium, the illustration class quickly turned out to become a Comics class or “Bande Dessinées” as we say in French.

Here is my first comics assignment where we were tasked to create a simple 2 to 3 panel story based on a character we designed in the weeks prior.

Being a big fan of spy and adventure stories, I thought I could try something a bit different than my regular biographical stories and instead, go with an efficient out of retirement intelligence officer that carries out operations in foreign dictatorships.

It was all sketched on paper then cleaned up in Clip Studio.

I hope you like it!

Blue Sky wireframes and topology

Posted on March 3, 2025  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation, Education, Uncategorized

Even if Epic came out in 2013 and most of those screenshots might be outdated, I still feel they would be of interest for people interested in facial topology and a good resource for a future overall facial topology article and facial rig calisthenics.

Blue Sky topologies are very rare online so I used ChopRig system lead developer Daniel Lima’s showreel for reference. You will see meshes and wireframes from 2019 “Spies in Disguise” and 2013 “Epic”.

Related posts:

http://www.olivier-ladeuix.com/blog/2012/06/26/pixar-brave-wireframes/embed/#?secret=hS8OI4Kvf0

http://www.olivier-ladeuix.com/blog/2013/04/28/pixar-animation-software/embed/#?secret=Qe2T7fkLfE

http://www.olivier-ladeuix.com/blog/2013/01/27/jonathan-paine/embed/#?secret=K64RNJevJU

http://www.olivier-ladeuix.com/blog/2012/09/26/lord-macintosh-update/embed/#?secret=vDL5W9INwI

http://www.olivier-ladeuix.com/blog/2012/01/14/3d-modeling-portfolio/embed/#?secret=WfPzYWqHYZ

Animation with a moustache is back!

Posted on February 26, 2025  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Uncategorized

After Godaddy bought my previous hosting company Mediatemple, I lost all my files and the blog died.

I just found a new host with more reasonable prices and I am slowly resurrecting my backups!

I think I still own my domain name so expect the blog to go back to the original url at some stage.