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22 July 2008

More animation work out

london Masterclass
Hey guys,

I'm back from Pixar animation masterclass in London with Andrew Gordon. I can tell you it was simply awesome !

The first day, we've been through all the animation principles and the second day was more around advanced acting...no no.. i mean REALLY advanced acting :) but shhh it's kinda secret masterclass so you'll not find spoilers here sorry.
Anyway, I still going through my notes and I did some animation tests focusing on weight and settling a body part.

Here they are : heavy capsule and Arm settle

More to come...

Enjoy !

20 June 2008

New shot. Let's call it Goldie shot...

Goldie 1


Hey everyone,
As some of you might know, a couple of months ago, I sent over my demo reel around the world.

So as the first demo reel is out there, I thought..hey let's start to think about a new shot ?

So I came up with this one, the audio is from Back to the future 1 when Goldie Wilson is talking about his future ( as everybody know he's going to be mayor 30 years later).
So here's some drawings, my acting reference and my blocking plus.

Hope you enjoy !!

16 June 2008

WALL-E : featurettes and bonus

Wall E 01
Hey guys,

here's a link to Firstshowing.net with featurettes about the upcoming Pixar's new movie : WALL-E


A hero journey
Pixar goes space age

Wall-E is both written and directed by Pixar's own Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo.
This movie is Pixar's tenth feature film. Wall-E lands in theaters everywhere this summer on June 27th - see you in the theater!

Enjoy !!

3 June 2008

Animation workout

snappy ballie

Hey guys,

I always liked the concept of animation work out.

It's easy to do, fast and really useful when you wanna test, study or just practice a specific part of animation.

Here's a lil anmation I did with Ballie. At the beginning it was just a simpe pose change in "Madagascar" mode and to learn how to do those kinda snappy things and it ended with a flip and a settle.

It was a blast to do it and I can tell you I'll do some more pretty soon.

Enjoy !!

10 May 2008

Thoughts

Hey guys, I got one hour before going to the gym, my wife and daughter are off to do some shopping, so I'm drinking my tea and typing some thoughts.

I was thinking this morning that animation is a beautiful place to be.

When you feel bad, dragged down by whatever it is, peoples are pointing their mind to something they know it will bring their good mood back.

It can be everything. It's just somethig you can escape with.

Cooking, working out, call some friends and the list goes on and on.

I have several places to be when I'm down :

  • Going to Middle Earth by reading Tolkien's books or watching the LOTR's dvds.
  • Watching a travel channel.
  • Going outside with Radiohead or Massive attack albums on my iPod ( or really old records I used to listen when I was a teen like Steve Vai, Gun's roses etc.. :) )
  • Go to the gym
  • But mostly, diving into animation land is the most beautiful place to be.

Reading about it, watching videos about it, go on the animation mentor forum and just soak up the insane energy and positivity on it. You just remember taht whatever your life will turn out, whatever I realized my dream or not, I will always have animation beside me.

And my wife. And my daughter. And a roof over our heads.

The hardest part is to keep this in mind every single day.

Have a good day everyone.

28 April 2008

That's the Animation Mentor Spirit !

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Just check THIS out, it's simply AM spirit by Bobby Beck.

Cheers !

24 April 2008

Back on the blog world

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Hey guys!
It's been a while now I didn't wrote something on this blog. It's actually a new blog, new adress as the main site is no hosting my demoreel and resume as a character animator.
Also, I updated to the version 2 of Dotclear which is nice but unfortunately, the database is pretty different from the one in the previous version...
So as I'm not a techie kinda guy, I didn't achieve to import back my old blog. But I will put a link or something to keep it online and let you surf through it.
Anyway, the layout here is about to change a bit but not tremendously, just adding some links on the right column etc...

It's kinda late so I should go rest a bit and I'll tell you more about my animation journey in the next posts.
Let's end on a nice picture :)

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