Angouleme International Comics festival 2010
Posted on January 10, 2010
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Angouleme festival
Well, well, well…. It looks like I might be able to make it to the Angouleme International Comics Festival this year. It is running from the 28th to the 31st of January in the gorgeous town of Angouleme.
Just for a reminder, as well as some NLP and Reframing tips, here is what Bobby Chiu had to say about the festival after visiting it last year:
Bill Presing also posted some pictures on his blog last year:
http://billpresing.blogspot.com/2008/02/destination-france-final-chapter.html
Is anyone else interested in going? I have no clue what kind of accommodation I will organize but I am sure it will be fine.
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Bobby Chiu Video interview
Posted on September 6, 2009
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Bobby Chiu
CG talk just released a short video interview with Bobby Chiu during ComicCon2009. Check it out.
Back from Angouleme
Posted on September 3, 2009
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As some of you might know, during the Annecy animation festival I got myself a great gig at animation studio “2 minutes” in the capital of “Bande dessinées”: Angoulême.
Angoulême is a gorgeous historic town, ideally located between Paris and the basque country, not too far from the seaside resort of also gorgeous La Rochelle and Royan. Angoulême is a fortified town with cobbled street located on top of the “Plateau”, a huge hill overlooking the Charente river.
All the houses are made of white stone which gives it that historic middle-age feeling.
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The importance of the tools when drawing
Posted on June 23, 2009
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Just to balance things up a bit with my previous post here is a funny video from Sheldon Arts Academy on Youtube regarding the importance of the tools when drawing ;-)
Sketchcrawl material
Posted on June 23, 2009
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Here is a summary of recommendations given by different artists for sketching or sketchcrawling.
Glenn Vilppu uses a Namiki Falcon fountain pen filled with a range of Sepia, brillian brown and black non waterproof Pelikan ink but also Polychromos Faber-Castell pencils. The Namiki Falcon nib is solid gold hence the price but doesn’t corrode like cheaper models. Glenn also recommends the $15 “Pen and ink sketching fountain pen” which comes in extra-fine, fine or broad size. expensive but the pigments are much stronger.
Enrico Casarosa uses the Fabriano Artist journal which alternates white and brown pages. He also carries a Water brush pen like most Sketchcrawlers and a set of Windsor& Newton Artist watercolours and does most of his drawings using a pencil.[...] Read more
Welcome to my new blog
Posted on May 24, 2009
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Old and new design
I have finally been able to work on the design of my website.
People will probably scream when looking at the code but why would I spend 10 hours pulling my hair troubleshooting some nasty CSS when I can just do the same job in an hour using HTML?! [...] Read more
Painting exercise
Posted on May 23, 2009
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Bath time
As suggested by Bobby Chiu, I just did a quick painting exercise in the style of one of my favorite artist Nate Wragg. Well it is pretty much a copy of one of his paintings. The grey background was just to avoid working on white but in retrospect white could have been better ;-) Ah I will have to learn colour harmony one day… how/where to start?
My TV Paint toolbar
Posted on March 10, 2009
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someone was asking about TV Paint on the AM forum so I decided to share my toolbar with everyone. The drawing underneath is based on someone’s blog.
You can download my toolbar here
http://www.olivier-ladeuix.com/blog/uploaded_images/tvpaint/Olive_TradiTools1.6.zip
TV Paint fun
Posted on February 26, 2009
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For the past few weeks, I have started sketching on my way to work. I am still using a demo version of TV Paint that closes down after 20 minutes and doesnt allow saving.
TV Paint is a really great software and I haven’t used Sketchbook pro for a more than a year now.
I mostly do caricatures/character design and usually start with 2 spheres, one for the cranium and an other one for the chin/jaw, then I place the different features (ears, noze, eyes) at different height, in order to give some personality to my character. That s a tip I got from Steven Silver. The drawing above was my first test with shadows and didn’t work very well. Instead of starting with a white page next time, I will start with a mid gray background. This should will give me more range. An other exercise I learnt from Steven Silver is to draw the feature into a geometrical shape (triangle, square, rectangle and circle), do you know any other?
Paintings and sketches
Posted on March 3, 2008
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Here are a collection of old drawings and paintings dating from when I lived in Africa… 10 years ago. One of the digital painting is from yesterday night. I was playing with my Clean up brush in TV Paint and I love it. It gives such a clean and sharp line with a beautifull transition from thick to thin. Even better than Sketchbook pro.
Floyd Gottfredson, Disney comic strips artist
Posted on November 25, 2007
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I was going through Christopher Finch “The Art of Disney” this week end and stopped on few drawings from 1931 “The Beach Party” and 1935 “the Band concert”. Both shorts feature the supporting character Horace Horsecollar
I looked up this little guy on Youtube and google and finally found a full comic strip dating from the begining of the 40s and drawn by the excellent Floyd Gottfredson. Like me you probably don’t know this artist so listen to that. In 1935, he took over Ubi Werks and for 45 years, was in charge of all the Mickey Mouse comic strips after a very short career as a Disney inbetweener.
His style has evolved a lot in 45 years and probably in line with what people were doing in the animation department. If you want to know a bit more about him and his style, head to the following website http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/creators/floyd-gottfredson.html You will find there some example of the different art periods but as a summary, here is the classification made by the author.
1930 Primordial
1930-33 Mosozoic
1933-36 Classic 1
1937-1939 Classic 2
1939-1942 Hellenistic
1943-1946 Gothic
1947-1955 Neomezozoic
Personallly I really like the latest style but my favourite is the 1935 when characters didn’t have pupils and limbs were still rubber hose like. Here is an example:
Funny enough that strip is dated from 1935 but the author mentioned above would have called that style the 1933 “Mosozoic” instead of Classic 1.
If you like this designs, go and have a look on Clark Snyder’s Inspiration Grab Bag blog. He posted 100 of Floyd Gottfredson Disney’s comic strips.
TVPaint FX
Posted on August 27, 2007
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Because TVPaint allows to do that kind of stuff fairly easily, why not use it? I just rerendered my previous planning, adding a white contour and a drop shadow to some of the elements of the scene and I really like it. What do you think?
Car pantomime: full planning 1st pass
Posted on August 25, 2007
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Hi there! Ok here is a rough version of my planning. I still need to tweak the anticipation of the second push but that will do for today. I am too eager to start animating in 3d and the begining should be defined enough to fire up maya.
Car pantomime shot (planning first part)
Posted on August 21, 2007
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I don’t know how this happened but I lost the post I published few minutes ago…. anyway let’s type it again…
I am currently using TVpaint to plan my CG shots on a Tablet PC. It is just like working in 2d without the burden of storing, scanning, shooting paper and you can work anywhere.
Here is the first part of my planning for my new Pantomime shot.
Animatic for my short
Posted on August 12, 2007
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Ok sorry about the delay but I was a bit paranoid that someone would steal my idea that I didn’t want to show it until now.
Anyway, here it is for the ones who haven’t seen it yet.
While working on the layout I realised that some areas still needed a bit more definition so back to the drawing boards.
Sketches from Annecy
Posted on June 19, 2007
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With all the screenings and all the people to meet, I found it really difficult to find the time to sketch but eventually forced myself to do it in the last days.
Sitting at the terrasse of a coffee shop, I thought it would be a great place to draw people walking in the street but as usual they walk too fast so I ended up sketching the people around us.
In a bar late at night
Terrase of a coffee shop. I had to draw those 2 girls in brown. Same outfit, different proportions.
View from the Café des Arts. I really struggle with colours but I still like to experiment. Sorry for the mess ;-)
Pixar animators Patty Kihm and Ross Stevenson during a presentation of their work on Ratatouillle. “Yeah man” is the stamp of approval from Brad Bird when a shot is approved.
“Surf’s Up” co director Chris Jenkins and Chris Buck.
Gary Rydstrom during the presentation of the Pixar’s “Lifted”. Very nice animation, very nice rendering, but I didn’t like the character designs or the story. The human seem to be coming straight from Pixar generig, and the aliens just looked like blobs put together. The story is okayish. The audience seemed to like it but I found it a bit weak compared to the more subtle “Gery’s game” or “For the birds”. Actually, Blur’s “Gentlemen Duel” got an even crazier response from the audience compared to Lifted.
On the way back to London after the Customs confiscated the Reblochon cheese I intended to use for a nice tartiflette. Damn.
Watercolour kit
Posted on May 21, 2007
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After countless hours spent on the net searching for the perfect kit I finally took the plunge. I just placed my order on the Ken Bromley Art supplies website for
Pentel brush pen with 4 water proof ink cartridges
A set of 3 pentel aquabrush, just in case I picked up the wrong size. Mind you the set of 3 cost the same as a single one at the London Graphic Center ;-)
And the obvious Winsor & Newton 12 half pans Watercolour pocket box. That was quite expensive for my first watercolour kit compared to the £6 for the student version but I have been told it was well worth it as the pigments are much stronger than the student kit. I have had various experiences with water colours in the past but I guess it was because I was using some cheap sets.
One last question is what kind of paper I should buy. The popular one is the new Moleskine sketchbook but I am not sure it is the most sensible choice for a first try. We will see as soon as I receive the kit.
Summer time, character concept
Posted on April 29, 2007
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As promised, here are some concept art for the design of my character Thirsty, a cartoony looking vampire. I have modeled and alpha version of him in wax already but I will probably change the proportions and use a different material. I started using a dark red wax but it is too dark and most of the detail won’t show up properly. I did try some Super Sculpey I had laying around but it was too dry and brittle. I also tried some Chavant clay but it was too sticky for my liking. I will go to Tiranti tomorrow and see what they have on offer….. not that I trust them much anymore but well let’s see.
Here are my concept art, 2 hours of brainstorming with my TabletPC and Sketchbook pro.
And here is the unfinished alpha version of the sculpt.
pastels
Posted on April 1, 2007
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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.
Drawing
Posted on April 1, 2007
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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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