BOLT - Italian Level Concept Piece

Proddy

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

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

Bolt - Skydome for Russian levels

BOLT!

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

The Apprentice

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 !!! "

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

Fun and Gaming

Ben's sketche:



and my render:

Goods and Services

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

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

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

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