Sketching at the Zoo

...using an ink brush

Brothers Forever

A little drawing for my kids with a loose watercolor brush technic I'm experimenting with.

Mariachi-Dachi

A piece of fan art I did for my good friend Kevin Merriman He's making a comic book involving a Mariachi Band that ends up in Japan. Very fun story!

Influence Map

I saw this Influence Map on Kris Anka's blog and I thought: "What a great idea!" So I did mine. Very cool to gather all the artists who influenced me the most in one place! Here it is:

and here is the template if you're interested in doing the same: http://fox-orian.deviantart.com/art/Influence-Map-Template-174550753?

Reading Time

When you get home and you see this, how can you not be happy?! To Tanya, Thomas, Jonathan and Benjamin (he's in the picture too. look closely! :) )

Speed Painting

Friends

One night, I had this dream that my team of concept artists was attacked by an evil red eyed robot. The whole office turned into a gloomy green color. Everybody started crying like babies. Then I woke up.

I told my dream to the guys in the morning. Matt Armstrong drew this a few minutes later. He added a cool end to the story: me destroying the evil robot of doom with my laser saber!



How cool is that!?

Another portrait of me by Matthew, on the shoulder of a huge Robot this time (Matt likes Robots A LOT)



And another quick sketch of me during a meeting by the very talented Jason Kim



I just love the guys I work with

And not only because they draw pictures of me as a super hero! :)

Working with people you love and respect is priceless!

Pépé à la Plage

Gramps at the Beach

Last Cars Post

"Carifying" the World!

"Fond de Tiroir"

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

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

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

For fun

Link

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

Take that!