I'm back... with someone else style!!!

If anyone still look at this blog, I would like to start by saying that I am not proud of myself, its been over a year without posting. Not because I wasn't drawing but mainly because 2008 turn out to be, me taking new directions and learning other medium. As always, I 've been focusing on my paper animation, but also, selftaught Maya to myself and still in the process of becoming a storyboard artist. Definitly busy but not much to show for. Even if work used a lot of my time, I always keep a side project rolling . My earlier post on this blog already showed , that one thing I like to do is study an artist that I respect and try a project with that person style.

I already did ...

Humberto Ramos with Phillip Pulman's His dark material

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The french artist Cyril Pedrosa with Lemony snickett

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Really popular retro flat style with Pee-Wee play house

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and some others not on this blog (yet !!)

Do I succed to emulate? I dont know, always hard to say but one thing is sure, I do learn a lot doing those kind of exercise.

For me the best reward is to end up respecting even more those guys that I liked in the first place. By understanding the complexity of their work, I gladly raise my hat to their talent even more .

This time Cheeks-74(Sean Galloway) and Dapper Dan(name unknown) were my 2 inspirations for my new project based on the HBO show "Carnival".

For some reason the black eyes that Cheeks used aint something I can make work. I guess it's harder than it look to make a character look alive with black eye :))

Hopefully It didn't turn out to bad and as much I did learn a lot, it was too much of a challenge to actually become a natural way to draw for me.

To Sean and Dapper Dan, you guys rock and please keep doing those awesome and inspiring artworks who just remind me how talented you guys are.

Work "was" on progress

Here a maquette I started to sculpted a while a ago as a personal project about the show(Grossology) I was designing for.I was only 40% done at this stage but definitly in a direction I was happy with .Saddly I had to moved and the sculpture got badly damaged .
Since I started to work on another show and that keeped me away from it to long.Now it all dry and grainy, so just before throwing in out in the garbage I though sharing my rough stage of what it could had been.

Vacation!!!

Finally an update ,nothing big though .Not even sure it worth showing but I had to post something ,it been too long .It basically what I call my "computer lagging doodles".It pretty random ,from drawing the people I work with,to all the strange wave the people at work went through.(superhero tread to image of the week tread )I guess everything is good for inspiration .Summer ain't over yet and before I start focusing on my animation skill I really want to pump a finish project .Will see

Where my time is going !!!?

Hey there!
I am not even sure if people still look at my blog ,it been so long . I have been extremely busy lately with work.No new posting doesn't mean I didn't draw though .I will probably post some of them in the upcoming week.
I 'have been focusing a bit more on my animation .Resulting to finally decided to post my Animation reel .The funny thing is, looking my demo reel just bring one thing to my mind...sadness and frustration.
I've live in the wrong place ,in the wrong time.I am pretty sure If I would have been californian ,coming out of school in 1988,my demo reel would probably represent much more what I dreamed to become, than what I have to offer today .
Don't get me wrong ,I sure do realize how lucky I am,in that awful age for classical animation ,butchered by 3d,flash and by tones of student badly taught, hoping for money and fame, to have, all put together ,probably over 15 minutes of animation under my belt .
I just can 't help to think ,where did I screwed up?.
It is one of those time I really have a hard time the make me feel better with"The grass is always greener on the other side"
Anyway here it his. I am really sorry for the poor quality ,first experience with posting a video.If anyone have suggestion how to improve the the quality ,please share with me .

animation reel

got to be carefull with your birthday wishes....

small doodle for a big smile

Girlfriend had a bad day,in particuliar because of the toronto buses.Knowing that she looooooove Totoro,I jumped on my drawing table ,did that 30 sec drawing ,and what do you know.......her end of the day didnt turn out so bad;))

Thank you all for the awesome comments!!!!

Incredible how fast time goes by.Already 5 months since my last post.Why so long before I posted something new .Well let say lot of overtime at work ,been focusing mainly on animation lately and like every summer,need to balance the increase of the beer drinking with the gym;)

When I had to leave Yowza after Curious George,My main fear was,by working at Nelvana seeing my learning curved go down again .After 6 months of mentoring with Roger and Claude Chiasson(professional animation gods),I could hardly imagine myself meeting an equivalent match at Nelvana. Luckily for me I've been team up with 3 guys who just made my time worth it at Nelvana.Rob Risek http://dirtroadblue.blogspot.com/,Cory wilson http://houseofcool.blogspot.com/ and the amazing ...Faruk Cemalovic (no blog),one of the most talented guy I ever meet.Together we designed the population and the props for the upcoming show Grossology .
In a sad way( and an happy way) I just got transferred to animation for the same show.Leaving my teammates is kind of hard but necessary if I want to finally meet my peace with animation .
We had the pleasure last week to welcome my replacement ,referred by Charlie Bonifacio himself ,Perry LJ Osuna http://henchpekaso.blogspot.com/ .I love his stuff and no doubt he'll do well in his new team .
Good luck guys !!!
Like every new show,there always an adaptation time to get the new style.Grossology was a really challenging style for me ,but really great to learn.Here my earlier design who got rejected. Hope the show will do well.

Finally back with something new!!!
First of all I just want to thanks everybody for all the awesome comment.It really mean a lot .

Second thing ...well I am really sorry I took so long to post something new .I 've been really busy with an illustration I've been asked for a coffee table book .Sadly I screwed up by misunderstanding what the client(http://www.1313midnitekreepshow.com/) really wanted and now my illustration won't be used. My bad but still enjoyed working on it ,definitely my kind of topic.The book is a compilation of horror illustration about turning the cereal mascot into serial killer .Being myself a big horror fan ,Clive Barker's Hellraiser was the first thing who came to my mind ,and who else than the Rice crispies guy for the role of the cenobites. The top illustration is the final,the one under is my first layout I had in mind but I've been ask to drop for the sake of the composition .

pitch for trapeze

After working with all those angular character(like doodlez)I decided to pitch something back to a more classical cartoony look .Roundish is definitly my cup of the and I sure miss it .After creating the cast ,a co worker was supposed to layout a scene with my posing .Of course he never did it .After spending so much time on posing it kind of bug me to not having a layout to put them.So I did a temporary BG just for the sake of putting the pose in a context instead of a white sheet of paper .The layout ain't great but at least my posing is out there .The color was done buy a friend of mine Rene Daigle.Thank Dude!!!

PEE-WEE!!!!

Big fan of the show ,I decided to use that retro/flat style just for the fun of it .Saddly ....It wasn't fun at all,lost interest in the project and decided to drop it .
For those who don't get the "word of the day" panel .The pink alien is a villain I found in the Pee-wee world.His name is Zyzzybalubah and you can see him in a episode call "Playhouse in the outer space".Not really proud of that set and might get back to pee-wee one day with a style I will enjoy more .Oh well...

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Scary but true!!!

On my way home in the subway ,I had the pleasure to share my trip with this pleasant fellow.For 20 minutes that guy,who at first was reading a magazine ,started to yell at the top of his lung that I was a "F...ing NERD!!!!"Laughing at me and screaming every swear you could imagine ,followed by the word nerd .The funny thing is ,I consider myself border line of the nerdy ,geeky world.I never had a conversation with a friend about who would win between Wolverine and Edward scissorhand but I sure enjoy comic book .
So I could feel myself blushing ,now that my dark secret was out LOL!!.But for everybody else it didn't make any sense because I was sitting calmly listening my walkman .No geeky stuff I swear.So finally he hit my nerve and when I open my mouth to ask him what was his problem ,He stood up and got out of the train ,leaving ,of course ,behind him a huge stain and puddle of piss.
I don't know if there a moral to that story but I am sure I wont use it on my kid to make a point .....

Sooo desapointed;((

As a french Quebecquers if there one thing I learn to hate like the plague itself is of course translated movies,songs and games.Trust me on that one ,I am still twitching from the last Jim Carey or Robin William movie I saw in french.It just plain awful.Like everything there always exception .Cheech and chong ,Slapshot are part of those exception .I wouldn't trade the Quebecquers version for nothing in the world.
Quebec version of the Flintstones is for me Translation at his best .I don't really care for the original version of the flintstones( in english) but man... ,probably one of the funniest thing I 've ever seen in my life .Anybody who can enjoyed the french version will ,without a doubt,second me on this one .
For me it was such a joy when I discovered the release of the Quebecquers version on the box set. I was happy to think my kids will enjoyed the same version I had when I was kid .Sadly the bubble busted when I bought last week end the fourth season .No Quebecquers version on it .What happened????I know they existed ,I saw them on TV.I really Hope season 5 and 6 won't disappoint me .I am just dying to hear great zazoo call fred "Gros Cave!!!"

My first movie..Sniff !Sniff!

Last saturday I went to the premiere of the first 2D animated movie I worked on .It was an awesome time ,and I actually enjoy the movie quite a bit .I still think the first part of the movie is the best when it really focus on the relation between ted and george ,but still really entertaining .Hopefully it won't be my last one.On that pic,you have 4 of the most incredible talent I ever had the chance to meet .Former disney (australia) guys.From top left to down right.Steve Baker ,Mike Mcdougal,Nadine Wagner ,Me and Florian Wagner . Those guys been real friends while I was having though time to adapt from tv to feature .Of course while I 'm at it I would like to thank The Chiasson brothers ,Pierre ,Claude and my mentor Roger for everything they did for me.You guys kick ASS!!!!
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It all about a good story....

sometime I am just amazed to see how crazy my idea jump in a same page.Good luck for relating those 3 togheters.

Advice from a Caterpillar

saddly I lost the original and finish piece in a computer crash .This work in progress is the only thing remained of my hard work:(

You've been warned...

Here my first Looneypost,
Still done really quick while computer lagged.
Hope you guys like the looney tunes because trust me...

Th...tha...that's not all folks!!!!!!!!;))

Rough!

I got my first request today ....
I've been ask to post sketches instead of finish stuff .I know everybody do it but for some reason I always feel like my rough aint good enough to be showned.I guess the same way I was scared to have a blog ,it just a matter of breaking the ice.So welcome in my vault were no one ever been ....
Don't try to make sens out of them ,those a really quick doodles done while I am waiting because my computer at work suck and laged non stop.

The tunes

This is once again the first look of a pitch done at Trapeze.I was told to really used "Shag" as a guideline .
That flat retro style is personally not my cup of the ,but I think it turn out not to bad.
The final show sure do look different now and doing extremely well.