Lift.

It has been a while since I was able to post much material, partly because of my schedule, but mostly because I have been working, in the past few years, on many projects that are either still in development or otherwise unreleased. I thought it might be time to finally show some of that work so I took this opportunity to do a little clean up. I also updated and expanded several galleries in my online portfolio.
Cheers.

100 000.

Sometimes last week, somebody stopped by for what was to be the 100 00th visit on that site. Thank you all for your sustained interest over the past few years and for all the kind comments and perceptive remarks left along the way.

Cheers.

Good News, Bad News.

After a year and a half of regular posting, I have finally caught up with the work I'm doing on projects currently in production or in development. Therefore, I will not be able to show anything until these projects are released and it might take a while. Fortunately, I stumbled recently, in my archives, on some forgotten pieces I did during my brief foray in live action movies. That should take me through the summer.
Cheers.

Process.

Somebody recently ask me to explain my process in making these drawings and I was unable to provide a very clear answer to that. It seems I have been unable to stick to a failsafe recipe when it comes to drawing and I am never sure if I'm going to pull it off on the first try or if I'm about to trudge through a dozen of half-baked versions, slowly building up to something I'm finally happy with (when it comes to that, I work on the light table). Both possibilities are equally likely although if I spend some time beforehand researching my subject and visualizing the picture I want to make, it usually helps.
Over a serie of drawing though, a refining and editing process takes place and it can be seen here with the waterfall design eventhough I posted the various stages out of order.
In this case, there were three main stages to the process: visual development, water design and shot specific production design.
Example of the first stage, are the posts: 'River', 'Going down' (top), 'Waterfall' (bottom), 'Waterfall 2'.
'Rapids 3' (bottom) and 'Going down' (bottom) were devoted to water design.
The others ('Rapids', 'Rapids 2' and 'Waterfall' top) are example of the final stage in which these explorations are used to design specific shots in the movie.
Cheers.

Broken.

Still unable to upload today. There doesn't seem to be a way to contact 'Blogger' for tech support or even to report problems. Does anybody have any suggestions.

Broken.

Unable to upload images today.

Better late than never.

After long deliberation, I've decided at last to join the fray. After all, the more, the merrier. Most posts on this site will consist of images old and new as I do not intend to bore the occasional visitor with my endless rants. Besides, as the saying goes, each one of them should be worth a thousand words. More or less.