The Jumbled Drawer

"Fond de Tiroir"

2012-01-27T08:22:00.003-07:00

A few pieces from Cars 2 until I can post the concept I've been doing for 2 years now on our super awesome highly top secret next project!

A Before and After example:
Sometime we do paint overs of 3D levels to give suggestions to our World Builders. Concept doesn't stop with one pretty picture. It's often a back and forth between 2D and 3D.

Icons and Logos:
Surprisingly, I had a lot of fun designing those. I never thought I'll do something like that. I'm not the best at it but it was a fun departure from what I usually do. Thank you Illustrator!

Jonathan

2011-12-22T15:07:00.003-07:00

Our 2 year old, French/American toddler Jonathan is a bottle of joy! His favorite activities are:

- sitting on his potty
- wearing my shoes
- turning everything into a hat
- destroying books
- repainting our house with crayons
- dismantling his Buzz Light year
- and playing with toilet paper

I love this little guy.

Here is a Christmas card for my wife Tanya.

Shhhh, don't tell her... two more days before Christmas!

Cars 2 Wii Style

2011-10-12T12:35:00.002-06:00

We were trying to find a cool look for the Wii version of Cars 2. We experimented with a cell shaded look. It didn't work out at the end but it would have been really cool to have an entire game in that style!

Little Hair Study

2011-10-07T08:13:00.000-06:00

For fun

Link

2011-09-27T08:24:00.004-06:00

I had some good times playing Zelda on my gameboy... It was a long time ago!

Take that!

2011-08-01T12:50:00.002-06:00

Italy Country Side

2011-07-27T13:27:00.004-06:00

Even on a piece with not many details you can still use a lot of visual help!
Why wasting time guessing what something looks like when you're one click away from knowing exactly what it is (that click for me is mostly Google Image). Then you have more time for what really matters: composition, look and feel, gameplay requirements, lightning etc.

Research, research!

2011-07-20T09:15:00.003-06:00

Here is a piece I made for the city area of the Italy track. I wanted to point out the amount of research that goes into a piece like this. Gathering the right reference is a big part of a concept artist job.

Follow the arrows!

Tokyo Industrial Area

2011-07-15T09:28:00.002-06:00

I'm just a big fan of Steam-punk. Everytime I've got to draw a rusted pipe or an old factory, it makes me happy!

ITALIA!!

2011-07-06T14:19:00.001-06:00

Look and Feel Piece

Cars II - Tokyo Imperial Palace track

2011-07-01T12:15:00.003-06:00

Drawing, Black & White Study and color

On the bottom left corner of the color sheet, you'll see the block-out I started with, (provided by the World guys) It's what they do first to test the fun of the gameplay then it goes to us, concept artists for a visual pass.

Cars II

2011-06-23T17:38:00.004-06:00

When I first heard I was going to work on Cars II the video game, I have to be honest, I was not super excited! Cars is my least favorite movie in Pixar's history.
So I was pleasantly surprise by how fun this project was. "Caryfing" environments and everything around was a real challenge and surprisingly enjoyable!
Here is some concept I did for C.H.R.OM.E., the secret spy academy facility which was used for the main menu of the game. Big responsibility!
I'm joining to this post the car research that went into it and a few explorations.

Velour's Battle of the Band Finals

2011-06-17T08:24:00.002-06:00

Hello everybody!

My band Searching for Celia made it to the Finals of Velour's Battle of the Bands in Provo. We are playing there tomorrow with 4 other amazing bands. You're all invited!
It's going to be an awesome show!

Seb

45 min warm up morning exercises

2011-05-26T14:15:00.003-06:00

We (the concept team here at Avalanche) started those morning exercises to stretch ourselves in the morning. We come up with a new topic every day:

First day: take the given landscape and apply a challenging color scheme of your choice. I choosd red and purple. I didn't know what to do with it after 20 min so I stopped there. :)

Second day: take a movie poster of your choice and recreate it using a stylized/graphic flat shapes style.
That was a real stretch for me since it's so far away from my natural art inclination.

Ghosts and Goblins

2011-05-23T10:09:00.001-06:00

Do you guys remember that game?
One of my great childhood memories! Seeing him fight in his underwear never got old! :)

Last Post on Toy Story III

2011-05-18T08:43:00.003-06:00

At the end of every project, when the need for concept slows down, we start helping out in other areas of the game.
This time, I worked on U.I.(user interface), icons, load screens etc...
It was a new experience for me.

Here is a sample:

Objects

2011-05-13T14:42:00.003-06:00

Even simple objects can be fun to concept!
It's rewarding to see them coming to life in 3D, like this dead tree toy for example:

Pretty accurate modeling huh!?

The Gargoyle

2011-05-04T08:45:00.006-06:00

This is one of those characters I thought was going to be easy to design but was not! We did sooo many versions of it!
Here are two of the first versions I did:

Cheap action Figure version:

Collector Toy version (okay, I went a bit too far there, but it would have been fun to see him interact with Woody, no?! :) )

And the "Sid" version that we ended up with - version #200 (you can feel the frustration here! :) )

Environments

2011-04-28T13:02:00.002-06:00

I like doing environments but I'm really not that good at it. I need some practice. Here are some concept and paintovers I did for the Sand box section of Toy Story 3.
Our very talented renderers and world builders here at Avalanche made it look great in game.

Stage Coach

2011-04-15T16:18:00.002-06:00

One of those assignments that I solved quickly:

First try:

Second and final:

That was easy and turned out pretty good in game.

The Slime Modifier and a Statue of Ham as a Western Mayor

2011-04-08T15:30:00.002-06:00

When a concept artist wake up in the morning, he has no idea the random stuff he's going to have to draw!

100 followers! ... and a Zurg Bot.

2011-03-29T10:22:00.005-06:00

That was a fun assignment! The goal: take the robot design at the start of Toy Story 2 (the scene where Buzz is in a video game)and revamp it to make it feel like it came from the Zurg toyline.

To summarize: I had to Zurgified a Zurg Minion! :)

From Toy Story 2, the movie - Copyright Pixar

and mine:

Haunted House Interior

2011-03-21T09:41:00.002-06:00

Yet, another collaboration for the Haunted House Interior look and feel.
Viginia Critchfield layout - Color and lightning by me.

Collaboration

2011-03-03T07:48:00.002-07:00

Here is a piece that my friend Dave McClellan started. He painted the whole Haunted House (the building itself). Later on, the World Builders needed reference for the surroundings. That's where I came in. Those trees and tombstones were fun to paint!

30 min

2011-02-24T12:44:00.002-07:00

Sometimes I work on a piece very quickly and it turns out okay. That's one of them.
Most of the time... it doesn't! :)

Bath Toy

2011-02-17T15:27:00.002-07:00

Thanks to all the people who came to our show last night, we had such a good time!
Thanks for your support!

I'm feeling like posting my little Dragon toy today. Isn't he cute!?

My first Show

2011-02-11T08:28:00.005-07:00

A little bit of shameless self promotion:

My band "Searching for Celia" is playing its first show at Velour, Provo UT on Wednesday, February 16th. We're opening for "90's Television" and "Billy and Julie" who are headlining the show.

The show starts at 8pm and the ticket price is $6.

If you like Alternative British rock ala Radiohead with some Soundtrack feel and French music influence, you should come!!

See you all there!

Seb

Velour's address: 135 N. University Ave

Le Temps des Origamis

2011-02-08T11:34:00.005-07:00

"Le Temps des Origamis". L'histoire de Seb qui reviens à son premier amour, la BD!
J'ai presque bouclé l'histoire, quelques recherches de personnages, une couverture (peut-être? - jugez-vous même) et 11 pages de dialogues. C'est un drame en un volume de 56 pages.

Donnez-moi vos impressions!

La couverture est-elle accrocheuse ?

N'hésitez pas a me donner votre avis.

Le but: finir le manuscrit dans les 6 mois pour l'envoyer à tous les grands éditeurs Francais.

Delcourt, Dargaud, les Humanoides Associés, Paquet, Vent d'Ouest... J'arrive!

"The Time of the Origamis" or I'm back to my first love: Graphic Novel
I'm almost done with the story, a few character developments, a potential cover (see above) and 11 pages of script. It's going to be a Drama in one album of 56 pages.

Give me your impression on the cover.

Catchy enough?

I need feedback!

The goal: finish a manuscript to send to all the big French publishers in 6 months.

Delcourt, Dargaud, les Humanoides Associés, Paquet, Vent d'Ouest... I'm coming!

Enchanted Glen and its Fairy

2011-02-02T11:59:00.003-07:00

More Toy Story 3 Art. The very first pass on the Enchanted Glen and its Fairy character. It evolved quite a bit from there.

Kirby

2011-01-25T14:51:00.002-07:00

Here are two marketing pieces I made for a children book called "Kirby Puckernut and the Christmas surprise" that came up last month.

A lot of fun to do!

The Cow

2011-01-18T12:37:00.003-07:00

Another early character.

From exploration to wrong direction to final design

It made it into the game after some nice touches from the Character Modelers and funny animations from the animators. It's always magical to see one of your characters coming to life on screen!

Variety

2011-01-12T12:18:00.004-07:00

That's one of the things I like the most about being a concept artist: variety!
One day, you're going to be working on a soft Caterpillar toy design or a Construction worker action figure. The next day you might work on a Western Cave or a futuristic western Barbershop.
It forces you to attack new design problems everyday. I love that challenge!
And also the free sodas, the silver pass for unlimited access to Disneyland, the sweet deal on every Disney dvds and products and the amazing artists I work with everyday.

Love my job!

Seb

TOY STORY III

2011-01-07T12:26:00.005-07:00

Starting in January 2008, I had the privilege to work as Concept Lead over Toy Story 3, the video game. This has been a great great experience for me and the chance to learn a lot of new things, from a concept perspective but also on art direction. We created over 3,000 pieces of concept, designing new toys, new environments, objects, vehicles, UI etc... 1,286 of them got approved.
It was a fantastic two and a half years project to be on and working with Pixar (my heroes) was a blast.
Here is the first piece of concept I did for the project and the first time John Lasseter saw my work.

John Lasseter! THE John Lasseter! And he LIKED it!!

One of the best moment of my career.

John Lasseter...

All right, I stop geeking now.

Happy new year friends!

Seb

Et hop!

2010-12-27T10:39:00.000-07:00

New followers window, new look!

The Tower - La Tour

2010-12-27T10:32:00.004-07:00

Never posted this short story I got published in a French Comic Book magazine a while back. Sorry, it's in French. I'll translate it one day. Story by Sebastien Hostalery. Doodle and Coloriage by me.

Merry Christmas!!! Eat a lot of chocolate!!

Seb

Scared

2010-09-03T14:42:00.003-06:00

Another Lunch Study

The idea was to take the color scheme of this painting from Klimt and apply it to your picture. I have a tendency to move stuff around quite a bit using, contrast, saturation and hue so the final product has a different color scheme. But originally, it was the same! Believe me!

This was fun and make me realize that I have to stop using the same three colors in all my paintings! :)
Not great but I just had an hour and a half to do it.

Maggie Smith

2010-08-28T11:19:00.002-06:00

Lunch Study.

She was the perfect old Wendy in Hook!

It's hard to get a date when you're a Troll

2010-08-16T15:28:00.002-06:00

Yeap, I'm not a blogger by heart!

2010-05-13T08:04:00.004-06:00

Some quick gestures and quick emulation studies (of Eric Canete, the man!)

And a lunch study portrait of Jamaine:
("You're the most beautiful girl in the... room!")

New year resolutions

2010-01-20T09:54:00.005-07:00

Toy Story III the video game, is wrapping up. After two years of being Concept Lead on it, managing and art directing, I feel like paying more attention to my own art again.
So I made a set of goals for this year:

- Sketch more regularly
- Going to one Figure Drawing session a week
- Do more gestures on my own using posemaniacs.com
- Do emulation studies
- Learn Google Sketch Up
- And in depth study of Photoshop

I know, that a lot of goals, but I'm craving art right now!

My last goal is to learn Illustrator. Here is my first test:

I love vector art already

Happy New Year everybody!

2009-12-30T21:12:00.002-07:00

English Landscape based on a picture found on the internet.
40 minutes

30 min lunch study

2009-12-09T13:48:00.003-07:00

I like snowscape!

the reference:

More Movie Art

2009-12-07T12:11:00.004-07:00

Thank you very much for your comments guys! They are greatly appreciated!

Here is more concept for this feature film project I worked on:

Peter

2009-11-16T16:30:00.003-07:00

Peter and the Wolf

Probably one of my favorite story of all time! I used to to watch the Disney version over and over again.

Action Shot

2009-11-11T09:17:00.004-07:00

Here is another piece made for the same movie project. Half way through it, the Producer said he wanted to go with a much darker look (see characters below) so I never finished that piece. Maybe some day!

More costume designs

2009-11-02T12:52:00.003-07:00

Fire Suit

Costume Designs

2009-10-17T22:11:00.003-06:00

Here are a few Costume Designs I did for a feature film a few months ago. Think "Lawrence of Arabia" meets steampunk!

1st Pass - Sketches (mostly thinking of silhouette)

A final Character:

Speedies

2009-06-12T13:39:00.002-06:00

Thanks for your support guys!
Here are the last two 30 min paintings:

Back to Speed Painting.

2009-06-10T13:15:00.004-06:00

Some of us in the concept team started the 30 min speed painting again during lunch. The rules: take a picture on the internet and make a painting of it using one layer and no color picking.

Today was my turn to pick the picture. I choose a tough one.

These waves were brutal!

Here it is, 30 min:

I'm back!

2009-06-03T15:47:00.008-06:00

Wow! I think I broke all records of silence here!
Bad me!
Life is super busy, projects keep coming and I still have a lot of fun doing it all!
I have a goal to post regularly again. So let's start.
I worked for a feature film last month doing costume designs and action shots. I'll see if I can post some of it here.

In the mid time, here is a little step by step and a skydome for Bolt I worked on with Dave McClellan.

Stay tune!

Seb

Snow Monster Hunter

2009-02-12T12:47:00.002-07:00

Zigfreid,12, is the youngest Snow Monster Hunter alive. He's captured thirty six beasts so far in a short but impressive career that started when he was only 7 years old.
Here is a photo of him taken on December 18th 2008 in Antarctica with his latest catch, a Category Six 2.3 tons Monster.

Bolt Skydome

2009-02-05T15:40:00.001-07:00

Another one!

The missing post...

2009-02-02T15:49:00.003-07:00

For those who wonder what happen to the post about my Salt Lake Community students, I unfortunatly had to remove it. The reason is: a few days after I posted it, Lanfeust Mag, a French comic book magazin told me they (finally) published my 4 pages graphic Novel. So I didn't want people to be confused coming here and seing all kinds of different artists, since this blog is the link I put as a reference in the mag... Bad timing!!

But anyway here is the link to this post again!

Shah Project

2009-02-02T11:16:00.003-07:00

My good friend Shahbaaz wants to make a short 3D film. He asked me to help create the characters. He wanted to get the flavor of Sean Galloway and have the main character kind of looking like him (meaning Shahbaaz). Here is the result. It's always fun to emulate a new style you're not use to! Sean is the man!

The hero:

And here is what Shahbaaz looks like:

Bolt - Misc

2009-01-22T14:38:00.002-07:00

BOLT - Italian Level Concept Piece

2009-01-11T00:12:00.003-07:00

Proddy

2008-12-29T17:11:00.004-07:00

To finish the year, here is another piece for Bolt: Proddy, the only woman enemy of the game.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody!
I wish you all the best.

Discovering Vector Tools

2008-12-23T19:17:00.003-07:00

My uncle Jean (John) is starting a "repair all" kind of company in the south of France. He wanted a logo of a "happy and honest" worker. I thought it was a good opportunity to try something new to me: vectors! It's not done in Illustrator but using the vector tool in Photoshop. But hey, it's a start! Next time, I try Illustrator.
I also try to put a little bit of my uncle into the design. I think it turned out okay for the short time I spent on it.

Bolt - China Level

2008-12-15T11:03:00.001-07:00

Bolt - Skydome for Russian levels

2008-12-08T17:25:00.005-07:00

BOLT!

2008-12-04T18:49:00.005-07:00

Bolt is now playing in theaters everywhere. I worked on the game quite a bit. For this game, I didn't work so much in concept but on the skydomes, these big background paintings that "close" the gameplay area.
Here is one of the few concept pieces I did, for an enemy. At the time, the bad guys of the movie had this modern ninja flavor to them. Later on, the movie team just kept the high tech look and abandonned the ninja theme. We of course had to change our characters accordingly.

I've been pretty impressed with what Disney Feature did on Bolt. It's definetely a step up in quality and storytelling compared to Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons.

Here are early ninja versions of "Disky":

Fourth and Last Card: Outdoors

2008-11-24T16:36:00.001-07:00

The Apprentice

2008-11-13T13:30:00.002-07:00

Thank you guys for all your very kind comments. They are much appreciated! I don't feel like I deserve them! :)
Requested by Talha, here is a higher res. version of "The Apprentice".
Take care guys,

Seb

Ps: Mr Loulou, je ne pense pas que Imagine FX est disponible en France malheureusement. Mais j'ai peut-etre tord!

" I'm on the cover of a MAGAZIIINE !!! "

2008-11-09T11:06:00.004-07:00

Clearly one of my favorite Pixar jokes: " I'm on the cover of a MAGAZINE !!!" says Mike Wazowski in Monsters Inc., looking at his face hindered by a barcode on a magazine cover.
Well, I didn't make it to the cover, but I have a page displaying my art in the November 2008 issue of Imagine FX (issue #36 - page 12)!

This is a great magazine about digital art.
Check it out!

Personalities

2008-11-05T11:39:00.001-07:00

Fun and Gaming

2008-10-28T12:32:00.004-06:00

Ben's sketche:

and my render:

Goods and Services

2008-10-24T14:51:00.004-06:00

A couple of weeks ago, I helped my good friend Ben Simonsen to finish a few illustrations for a weekly paper in Reno called 'Reno News & Review'. This was for their 'Best of Edition' which focused on things to do in Reno with such topics as 'Night Life, Green, Kids & Family, Fun & Gaming, Personalities, The Outdoors, Dining, etc.'
Ben gave me his sketches, I rendered them and he applied some color layers on top to finish them. That was a fun collaboration! Here is the first one (out of four).

Ben's sketche:

My render of it:

Robert the Thief and Sebastien the busy/happy man

2008-10-20T14:22:00.005-06:00

One of the reason why I don't post as often as I used to lately is because I'm teaching a class of Computer Illustration at Salt Lake Community College on top of my full time work at Disney, my freelance work, my new graphic novel project (see above) and... and it keeps going on and on!
But I'm not complaining! I'm having a lot of fun doing all these things and feel pretty lucky to live of my art.
Thank you so much for all your comments and support. I wish I had time to answer all of you personnaly.
Here is a quick demo I painted for my class this morning: Robert The Thief.

Take care everybody!

Seb

how it started:

how it ended:

Sci-Fi

2008-09-22T13:13:00.003-06:00

Here are the first sketches for the Main Character of a new Graphic Novel I'm working on. It's been a while since I wanted to try a sci-fi story. I never did it before. It's going to be interesting. The story is shaping up nicely. I'll keep you posted!

Seb

Oldies

2008-09-03T17:20:00.002-06:00

That's annoying! Everything I'm working on these days, at work or outside of work is top secret!
But I started a graphic novel I'm pretty excited about a couple of weeks ago. I'll probably post the first character and environment studies for it here soon!
Have a good one,

Seb

Chicken Little II

2008-08-12T12:28:00.001-06:00

High concept piece for the final boss.

Quick Sketch

2008-08-01T10:48:00.001-06:00

A good old Utah landscaping.

The Tower

2008-07-25T15:40:00.003-06:00

Man! It's been a while! Sorry everyone for the lack of post. A few months ago, Avalanche gave me the chance of being Concept Lead on our new big project. It's an honor and a big responsability. I don't have much time for my own projects on the side anymore. But I managed to finish "The Tower", a 4 pages Graphic Novel that I started a while back. Here is one of the panel. When it will get published, I will post it here... and in english too! :)

See you soon everybody! I'm gonna try to post more often again.

Seb

Just one of these days

2008-05-22T16:25:00.002-06:00

Jasper, the One Man Band

2008-05-16T10:19:00.001-06:00

It's been a while...

Vacation

2008-04-21T00:26:00.002-06:00

Hello friends,

Sorry for the lack of communication. I came back to France at the start of the month for some vacation. I thought I'll have time to paint and draw but I was wrong! :)
So I probably won't post until the start of next month.

Anyway, I hope everybody is doing fine,

See you soon,

Seb

Rhino Sketche

2008-03-20T10:15:00.003-06:00

I don't have much time to blog lately, sorry guys. I'll get back to it soon. I have a few nice illustrations on the way.
Here is a little sketche in the mid time, just for fun. That represents how tired I am lately! :)

Oh feedback, great feedback!

2008-03-12T10:14:00.003-06:00

Here is a new version of the Gangster. I changed the shadow, the tommy gun and the left hand. Thanks to Reed Hawker, Adam Ford, Dave Malan and David Bybee for the feedback!
I think feedback is one of the coolest thing about blogs. I encourage every visitors on this blog to give me some. Don't be afraid to do it even if you don't know me or if you feel like you're not good enough to do it. Even if you don't draw and paint, you can still give great feedback. For example, it didn't take any art background to my good friend David Bybee to notice that the tommy gun on this picture was all wrong!! :) (I drew it in the car without reference)
Take it easy everyone,

Seb

One Hour Study

2008-03-11T10:02:00.003-06:00

Thank you very much to everyone for your support and feedback. I'll probably go back to the Gangster illustration to change a few things. In the mid time, here is another lunch study. This one was very hard to paint: the color pallet is so different that what I'm use to and the values were really hard to get. I'm pretty satisfied with the result though.

original on the left of course

Gangster

2008-03-06T14:49:00.002-07:00

For the Avalanche new topic.

Another Kanevsky - One hour

2008-02-26T14:27:00.002-07:00

The most beautiful sink ever!

The Original:

Copyright Alex Kanevsky

Mine:

New Painting Exercise

2008-02-25T15:26:00.005-07:00

Hello everybody,

I don't have a lot of time for my blog lately. But a lot of cool things are on the way! Here is the new excercise my buddies at Avalanche and I started during our lunch break: copying a painting in an hour (no color picking allowed).

Fun, fun!

We started with a painting of one of my favorite painter Alex Kanevsky

Here is the original by Monsieur Kanevsky:

copyright Alex Kanevski

And here is mine:

I didn't care much about the drawing. I tried to concentrate on colors and values instead.

Snowy Road - 35 min

2008-02-07T15:34:00.000-07:00

Speedscape... It's been a while!

Malibu

2008-02-05T09:28:00.000-07:00

Well, I don't have much to post lately! Everything I'm working on at work or outside of work is confidential. :( I'll be able to show all of that in the near futur. So in the mid time, here is another skydome I made for the final level of Hannah Montana.

The Tower - Update

2008-01-24T11:14:00.000-07:00

Quick update on "The Tower", a four pages Graphic Novel I'm working on with Sébastien Hostaléry (the talented french writer!)
I'm done with the first 2 pages and I'm currently working on the drawing of page 03.
Here are the first three pictures of page 02.

Cairo

2008-01-23T13:26:00.000-07:00

Okay, I know, these are flashy colors! But hey, that's for Hannah Montana you know! :)

Sydney

2008-01-14T10:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a bridge I painted for the Sydney Level of Hannah Montana. Also part of a skydome.

At The Mall - 1 hour 10 min

2008-01-09T16:54:00.000-07:00

Portraits

2008-01-03T09:40:00.000-07:00

Back to blogging after a great, long and restful Christmas break. I hope yours was as good as mine!
This year, I wanted to give a more original present than usual to my wife Tanya. So I made her a portrait of our little boy, Thomas, 18 months and a portrait of her in a 1920's setting. I didn't have time to finish hers for Christmas but here it is, still unfinished. I really enjoyed making these portraits and I thought I could make them for people out there. I could put any settings you want or extra props etc... just to make it more personal and original. I don't know how much I'll charge yet but I'll think about it.
So if you are interested, let me know: sgallegopub@yahoo.fr

Happy New Year everybody!!

Seb

Thomas, 1 and 1/2

Thomas and his favorite show: Nemo!

Tanya in the 20's

Editorial Illustration

2007-12-20T14:09:00.000-07:00

I'm not much of a Editorial Illustrator but I had the chance to get a few freelance jobs in that area, here and there.
Here is a little sample:

Christmas Time

2007-12-20T14:04:00.000-07:00

Well, here it is! I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and want to thank you all for visiting this blog. You guys are great! I wish you the best.
Sebastien

Tokyo

2007-12-12T12:58:00.000-07:00

I wanted to apologize to all of you guys for the lack of communication: I'm very busy with various projects and I don't have the time to answer your very nice comments. But I wanted to tell you that they are much appreciated! I'm hoping to come back to a normal communication eventually.
But there's something I can still do though: POST!

Ps: My good friend and very talented artist Tom help me with all the signs that were actually blinking on that picture. The final result was pretty fun to watch.

Rome

2007-12-04T13:53:00.000-07:00

I know, that could have been Paris too!

Hannah Skydome: Rio

2007-11-30T12:13:00.000-07:00

Wow, I didn't post anything for a while, sorry guys! I greatly appreciated all your feedbacks on the Business Card. I found them all really helpful. I started making the changes and I'm going to make other ones that I will also post here for more feedback.

So!

Avalanche just released Hannah Montana for the Wii. I worked on skydomes for that project (you know, these paintings in the background of video games that "close" the 3D worlds). It was a fun experience. In the game, Hannah performs in different cities of the world. Here is the background painting for RIO. There is a total of 4 differents layers for the mountains and 2 differents layers for the clouds that slowly move.

Business Card

2007-11-12T11:21:00.000-07:00

Well well well.
I'm not much of a Graphic Designer. So when the time comes to make my own business card, things get complicated. I really don't know if this is working, so please give me some feedback! Please!!

Ps: Just for the exercise, I put fake info so don't send me chocolate at this address or I'll never receive it!

45 min

2007-11-05T14:59:00.000-07:00

Man! Grass is hard to paint! It caught me by surprise. I probably spent 35 min struggling with it.

Character Design Workshop - Week 4 (I didn't do week 3)

2007-10-30T20:54:00.000-06:00

I was not happy with the direction I took during the first two weeks of the workshop so I decided to completly change my character. I feel much better about this one.
And you?

Week 4:

Character Design Assignment

2007-10-30T10:39:00.000-06:00

Character Design is not my forte si I've decide to focus on that for the next year or so. At Avalanche, we started a Character Design Workshop. It's going to help. Here are the result of the first two weeks:

Week 1:

Week 2:

45 min

2007-10-19T12:38:00.000-06:00

Hi everybody!
Thank you very much for all the compliments on the last post. I'm really glad you guys liked it. A special welcome to the new comers.
This speed-painting is not as successful as the last one, but I feel I'm getting better at rendering skies fast.

Speedscape - 50 min

2007-10-12T11:46:00.000-06:00

I used a picture I took last winter at Sundance for this one. I'm very pleased with it.