okay, so I have just a few days between the animatic and the back grounds layout, to work a bit more on the graphics of my film. I have tried some stuff that look so nice but would not be easy to animate such as this style which I like a lot. as the film has a very fast rythm, a rather complicated story, and  a small animating team, I have to choose a more simple style I guess...

cutting and cutting

we are deleting nice moments in the film to fit the film into the right timing... it is so hard! these images are gone!

graphic research

Vida was drawing instead of studying when her mother comes into the kitchen.
this scene is already cut out of the story...

the beach flags team!

This is our board and only 10 sequences of the film. It has had changes since this photo was taken weeks ago...

Storyboard

Chen Chen and I have been working on the storyboard since November and it's still not finished... hopefully it'll be done by the end of this month. we are making the animatic at the same time, it gives us an idea of the timing so if we see it's getting too long, we can go back and makes changes. It is great to finally see the story, literally meaning!

Déménagement!

The only good thing about moving is that you'll discover stuff you had forgoten  for a looong while! we are moving and there is so much work to do!

Moko

My producers are strongly against Moko... unlike me they don't like the feeling that Vida has for this dolphin. It is amazing that after my presentation in Annecy festival, a girl told me that she had actually swam with moko in New Zealand!
I will try my best to keep him in my story :)

Vida

I'm working on the character designs for my new film "Beach Flags" these days. the main character is called Vida.

meow!

these silly mouses are from the time I was working on "Quand le chat est la...", I really enjoyed the graphic research and character design for that film.

I've missed blogging! I've had a lot on my hands lately. mostly wonderful things but some were difficult: moving, dead graphic card= dead laptop, dead graphic tablet, incompatible poor old scanner! that's a lot to recover! well, i'm still recovering...

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Losing balance!

a still from my last film.

Illustration with sugar

old concept art for "Quand le chat est la..."