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Microsoft OneNote 2007

Posted on March 21, 2009 
Filed Under GTD, Life hack, Tablet PC | 3 Comments

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Lifehacker.com posted such a good introduction to OneNote last year that I will just paraphrase them and add few more comments.

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Creating a time code in TV Paint

Posted on February 18, 2008 
Filed Under Tablet PC | 1 Comment

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TV Paint is a great software for digital 2d animation but also to create animatics. Here is how you would start, by creating a timecode. Can Digicel do that? I don’t think so! Can PAP do that? I don’t think so! ;-)

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Blocking from 2d to 3d

Posted on February 18, 2008 
Filed Under Animation Mentor, Tablet PC | 1 Comment

Nothing really new here. You are all subscribers to Jason Ryan’s newsletter and know his workflow very well. Personally I love it especially for broad animations or physical shots.

Here is one shot I planned using this technique with my favourite 2d digital software: TV Paint
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TVPaint FX

Posted on August 27, 2007 
Filed Under Drawings, Tablet PC | Leave a Comment

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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?

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Car pantomime: full planning 1st pass

Posted on August 25, 2007 
Filed Under Drawings, Tablet PC | Leave a Comment

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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.

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Car pantomime shot (planning first part)

Posted on August 21, 2007 
Filed Under Drawings, Tablet PC | 3 Comments

I don’t know how this happened but I lost the post I published few minutes ago…. anyway let’s type it again…

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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.

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Animatic for my short

Posted on August 12, 2007 
Filed Under Animation Mentor, Drawings, Short film, Tablet PC | 5 Comments

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.

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Summer time, character concept

Posted on April 29, 2007 
Filed Under Animation Mentor, Drawings, Portfolio, Sculpture, Short film, Tablet PC | 3 Comments

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.

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And here is the unfinished alpha version of the sculpt.

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pastels

Posted on April 1, 2007 
Filed Under Drawings, Portfolio, Tablet PC | Leave a Comment

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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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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Editing 101

Posted on March 20, 2007 
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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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Les soeurs jumelles

Posted on March 16, 2007 
Filed Under Drawings, Portfolio, Tablet PC | 1 Comment

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I couldn’t find sleep this morning and after a very early wake up 4am started drawing on my tabletPC. By the way, Sketchbook rocks. First because the sketching feeling is amaaazzzziiingg even with a 7 years old wacom UltraPad pen and second because the CPU use on my HP 4200 is a stable 20% which is great for the battery life when you are having a coffee at Starbucks.

Because of the wide array of customizable brushes Photoshop CS2 is excellent but the CPU use goes up to 100% which triggers the CPU fan too frequently for my liking.

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