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Class 5 First Q&A

Posted on April 5, 2007  | 2 Comments
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Today I finally got to meet the whole crew and my mentor Elliot Bour. He seems to be a very nice guy and very down to earth for someone with so much experience in animation and directing, also he didn’t mind expressing his opinion about companies and movies he worked on so that was refreshing but this will stay private as in this business you still need to keep stuff for you, don’t worry he didn’t have much grudge against the whole business and didn’t make comments John K. would do.
Fate made Richie Prado and Matt Morris be in my class this term so I get to be in the same class than 2 UK guys, Matt being in London already and Richie coming back once in a while from Birmingam. This allows us to meet regularly and help each others. Gosh I just realised I might have forgotten some of my classmates when i did my photoshop collage… damn
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This is where I reside!

Posted on April 4, 2007  | Leave a Comment
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I did travel a fair bit in the past and thought that it would be a cool idea to map all those places. The furthest I went was probably North America on holidays and the South West of Africa where I lived for 2 years.

Christmas time is here

Posted on April 4, 2007  | 1 Comment
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My friend Sebastien Lasserre just finished a funny stop motion music video clip. Have a look this is pretty cool, plenty of nice details.

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Class 5 Beginning short film

Posted on April 3, 2007  | 1 Comment
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Yep after few ups and downs I finally reached the second year of animation mentor and will spend the 6 next month on developing then producing my own short. Producing a short is not something you can take too lightly and the idea of spending the next 6 month on a story I will choose in the next few weeks is really scary! Luckily things are done very well at Animation mentor and our mentors for class5 are animators or artists who have had some experience in the story department or in direction.

My mentor for this term will be Elliot M. Bour . He “began his career working as an animator for Walt Disney from “Beauty and the Beast” to “Mulan”, then directed on Disney’s “Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo” and “Kronk’s New Groove”. Elliot just got a job at Sony in development and hopefully we will be able to pick his brain to come up with the best short possible!

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Elliot is on the right of the picture next to the Disney legends

pastels

Posted on April 1, 2007  | Leave a Comment
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I should be getting in Class5 “Short preproduction” next week and I set my goals quite high. Here is a test I did in preparation using Caran d’Ache pastels on Canson 170g…. well that was more ArtRage2 on my Tablet pc but I won’t be taken seriously if I say so.

You might recognise the inspiration from some tiny company in california.

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412 meant to be final

Posted on April 1, 2007  | Leave a Comment
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Ok, this is meant to be my final but I am struggling some much to clean this up. Anyway, this is where I am so far. I will try to find the time to improve it.

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Drawing

Posted on April 1, 2007  | Leave a Comment
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While checking Youtube, I was copying some of the Story Boredom’s caricatures today and realised that it would be better to do my own ones.

That one is not really a caricature but a simple painting I did just to get better at it. It’s a very intuitive drawing, I didn’t really use the Glen Vilppu checklist. I just wanted to test some Sketchbooks brushes.

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410 spline

Posted on March 25, 2007  | Leave a Comment
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Here is my latest assignment. Still a lot of work to do but I think it is getting somewhere. The obvious errors (floating CD, buried eyes, orange guy frozen at the end) are not the main problem, I will attend to them at polish time.

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Studio Soi: Computer Love

Posted on March 20, 2007  | 2 Comments
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Ok this is old news but I hadn’t been checking Studio AKA’s website for quite a while and catching up with their latest work today I found “Computer Love”, a series of online adds from Studio Soi to promote instant messaging software ComBOTS.

Check them here (new link from Studio AKA website)

Editing 101

Posted on March 20, 2007  | Leave a Comment
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I don’t have much time right now but I am gonna talk about video editing very soon using as an example one of those 30 seconds Mac/PC Apple campaign and specifically the one called “Better results”. Why that one? well because the girl is hot and it makes my blog more attractive 😉

Close your eyes, think about any of those ads and ask yourself: “how many shot do they use for such and advert?” Just like many things, a good editing is a simple and seamless one. This is what this post is about. How can you make a 30s commercial that has a good pace without being too snappy or too flat?
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How yeah the last slide is not part of the ad but I thought it would be a good idea to put it there just to balance things up a bit 😉

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