Bath Toy

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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!

New followers window, new look!

The Tower - La Tour

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

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

Lunch Study.

She was the perfect old Wendy in Hook!

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

Yeap, I'm not a blogger by heart!

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

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