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

Happy New Year everybody!

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

30 min lunch study

I like snowscape!



the reference:

More Movie Art

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

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

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!