The Macabre Waltz released

We were eleven students for our graduation short-film.

I was co-director on this film. I work on pipeline issues and FXs (nCloth, nParticule, fluids) and I supervised the layout 2D/3D, the compositing , shave, and I edited the short.

I've created all the cells intro and flashes.

Nature of Code

I've been following some people on vimeo and I have discovered this.
They are math and code tutorials. Really interresting to use this in maya :)

Enjoy !




The Nature of Code website :
http://natureofcode.com/

Vimeo Shiffman Channel :
https://vimeo.com/shiffman

Indiegogo - Go Support !

VFX Learning is willing to release their courses for free.
They are looking for support.

VFX Learning Open Source Project Showreel from VFX Learning - Online School on Vimeo.


http://igg.me/p/310631/x/2328237

HAMNASYA

Hi everyone and happy Christmas !

I've been involved recently in simulating cap and cloath for horse riders at Delapost Paris.
This is a trailer for an iPad and iPhone application. It is a gamebook, you can find more about it athttp://www.hamnasya.net/.

I've created a little script to help me to retime the alembic node in Maya.
Pick the alembic node and run the script, it will create to attributes : an "offset time" and a "remap time". (Alembic seems to make interpolation if you scale time, it is pretty cool :))


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It is now in the download section.

Cthulhu

initial sketch

painting

research for arm design

With a friend we are working on a project about Cthulhu. It will be a vfx project.
I've done a quick painting research from my friend initial sketch.

My work during Just Fuel

I've recently on this advertisement for Meccano.
I've made mainly : 3d tracking, restore, animation and compositing.

Some music

I wanted to share with you an interresting French singer : Luc Arbogast
I found his music really amazing. If you want to listen more, you can go on grooveshark, myspace.

End of School

Finally, we have finished our graduating short-film.
It was really great to see it on wide screen !
It is available on request but we keep it private as we want to go on festivals.

I post a behind the scene for some FX and the credits.
We shot on stage some liquids, candle flame, dust.

Funky French Blog

Hi,
As I'm begining to think everything in Python, a friend send me this French blog called "joys_of_coding();"

 http://lesjoiesducode.tumblr.com/

 The principle of the blog is to associate a sentence about scripting with an animated gif.
I have translated some for international visitors.

Have fun !

"When I find a solution without browsing google !"

"When the deadline is moving closer dangerously."

"When my partnerannounce me that he's code is working."

"When I modify my code by following a tuto found really, really far in google's results."

"When I think I found a solution" and  "When my compiling fail"

"When I have to explain a piece of code that I have totally coppied"

"When my partner has found a solution to a problem where I have stuck for 2 hours in 30 seconds."

"When my appli crashes when I really don't expect it"

"When I see non-commented code"

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There is now an english version  : http://thecodinglove.com/

ESRA Promotional DVD 2012

We received last week the promotional DVD from our school and we are proud that "La Petite Affaire" was selected.

La Petite Affaire --- https://vimeo.com/32469555

Our friends from ESRA Groupe have done also great works so I share the links to their shorts :

Third Year :

Café Maxi Format --- http://cafemaxiformat.com/ (not available for the moment)
Mamembre --- https://vimeo.com/26553662

Second Year :

Antiquitoys --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIpaVMz_ko
Bras de Fer --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIueCpJdhKM
La Maison des Poupées --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXgUCasqgKs

Working on VFX

As our school has a cinema section, a team of students asked me to replace a practical FX for a head shot.
The short is called "Catharsis", it is in French but it is easy to understand.
The Film :

My work on the film is just bellow, it is just about 15 frames for the headshot :)
I used some camera projection, ncloth and keying.

CREDITS :
Direction : Marie-Reine POYTEAU
First Assistant : Camille BARRE
Music : Paul RANNAUD


CATHARSIS EXTRACT :



ORIGINAL SHOT :


BREAKDOWN :

Concepts from my next short-film

These drawings are the concepts where I got involved. There is few more and I will certainly post them later.

Grandma Painting

 I painted both top kitchens.

 I painted the first one

 The dining room (from me)

Cristal egg explosion

Unfortunatly, I have to stop for some time my personnal project with my phoenix :/
Here is my experiment on the cristal egg.



I will post soon some WIP from my end year major promotion !


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My phoenix modelling :

Short-film --- La Petite Affaire

Five CG artists, about four months of pré-production and six months of production and it is done !
My second year short-film is released : La Petite Affaire.

The short was done with : Maya 2011, Zbrush, Nuke, Vegas, Flash, Photoshop

Have fun with this absurd short !

Happy Christmas ?

A strange guest come into my head, I introduce to you Jack'o'Lantern !
Yeah, I may need some holidays....
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year !

Ancient Tablet - ZBrush

Zbrush Ancient Tablet about the legend of the Phoenix egg

Phoenix concept art

So, here is a new phoenix picture for a ZBrush sculpture and my maya animation :

And the link below is a version of the French synopsis of the project.

download synopsis

Last year at school !

At the head of a team of eleven students, I'm preparing a third short-film !
I will try to post some "Work in Progress" soon.

Meanwhile, I work on a 20"  animation with a phoenix and his egg. Here is my photoshop searches (done in three days)

The background and the "crystal egg"

Some drawings about a bearded vulture for transforming it later into a phoenix

Just a sketch for burning wings

This is my FX tests for my short-film "La Petite Affaire". The short-film will come in few months (as soon we finish to put subtitles !)

Test : Run with fluids spreading behind her



R&D : Cartoon fluid shader test


Shading test

Try Again Short Film 2009/2010

ESRA Group decided to include our first short film in their 2011 promotion DVD.