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Hell is around the corner

Fall 2008's demoreel

Hello world ! Happy fall :smile:

As usual, the weather is a real crap in Paris during this season, cold and rainy, *BUT*, when the rain is not there, you can admire certainly the best sunsets ever.

Anyway, school is now over. It's time to look for some work as 3D animator "junior".
Here is my last demoreel.





Wandering... from Spain to Portugal

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Here they come, the pictures I talked about on the last post.
This session was a real nightmare, I did all the dumbest mistakes you can do with a film camera :
* I let the camera fall on the ground : it opened itself on the crash and the film was exposed, luckily by night in Madrid
* I thought I had rollback the film to change it, but I hadn't : I opened the camera and the film was directly exposed again, at 4pm in Tavira (south of portugal)


Fortunately, the damage was less important than what I was fearing.

All the pictures were taken with the olympus XA and fujifilm superia x-tra 800 film, here you can see the result of my home scanner. This camera is definitely my favorite wandering shooter, I decided to buy it a Manfrotto modopocket, I really don't want to carry a big tripod all the time.

Anyway, here are some pictures of Madrid, a really cute city, but I think I do prefer Barcelona, maybe because of the sea.









And after 1 mid-day road-trip, we were in the south Portugal, in Faro. But the pictures here are all taken in Tavira, one of the best little town you'll find on the south coast.
The train you can see helps you to go from the town to the beach... really cool.










Some words from... Paris

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For the little part of you people that keeps an eye on my work (or my life ? :smile:), here are some news to satisfy your curiosity.

- I had my 3rd grade with congratulations. The average level of the school in 3D is kinda poor, but there's a group of students that do push this level up, I'll share their work to you soon.

- I'm still working on "Happy Bears Day", the graphic style is totally different than the one you've seen in the trailer.

- I'm re-working on "Spot and Clap" short movies, upgrading the whole graphic quality and correcting the animation jitters (last rendering on left)

- I bought a brand new Canon EOS 3 on ebay for nothing, it's the 2nd biggest film camera by canon (semi-pro, just behind the pro EOS 1V), I still need an optic for it (it'll be a 50mm/1.4), as soon as I'll have it there'll be pictures.

- I'm going for a road trip to Faro in Portugal this week-end, carrying my Olympus XA. The return on Paris will be by plane, flying through Exeter, I'll have 3 hours to visit the town (if I can...)

[1] Happy Bears Day trailer
[2] Old "Spot and Clap" shorts
[3] My Olympus XA's samples

Please take a ticket

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There's a woman at the end of this corridor of the Cathedral of Chartres, she's selling tickets to visit one of the towers of the edifice.

Still this scanner problem, I'm getting mad.

Atmosphere

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Bloody hell. It's so difficult (impossible) to scan brilliant paper, next time I'll ask the lab to scan the films. Those shots were taken in some bars in Paris, I don't really remember where. Oh yes, one in the area of Chatelet, the other one at République.

This is London

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I was in London last week-end. I decided not to take my EOS350d but just the little olympus xa. I didn't find any fujifilm superia x-tra 800 film there, so I had to take only what I found : the same in 400 iso, and a kodak gold 400, very general public (tourist :wink:) films.
The procedure is still the same, scan of brilliant paper prints, auto-levels in CS2 and voilà, I really like the tones it produces.



Ephemeral Instants

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Some new shots taken with my Olympus XA camera. I really like the colors (for the geeks, it's some fujifilm superia x-tra 800). I should try to print them in more than 10x15, but I think that at this this size, the camera is going to show its first weakness.



Creapole (Paris) 3rd grade : Happy Bear's Day

And here is the optionnal project we had to do, the subject was free, we were free to choose the importance of the work. Actually, it was kind of my main project. I wrote the scenario last summer, and asked to 5 other people in my section if they wanted to work on it.

So here is "Happy Bear's Day", we're six working on it (character designer, settings designer, storyboard, animation, and rendering) it's just a teaser for the moment, here to introduce the universe without telling anything about the story, and the remainder of the animation comes in september 2008.

So if you wanna stay tuned, it's on http://www.happybearsday.com !



And here is the team :

Me, Laurent Chea : director, scenario, 3d animation
Nicolas Meneteau : character designer
Jordane Legrand : settings designer
Maxime Rousseau : storyboard, 3d animation
Thomas Vervueren : texture/lighting, rendering (website to come soon)
Camelia El Khatiri

Creapole (Paris) 3rd grade : "The thing"

So here is the work I've done during the third year studying 3d animation. This is the first part we had to do, the subject was imposed : we had to create some humoristic animations in the world of bollywood, animating non humanoïd characters (the subject was the thing). On this subject we had to work alone (from writing the scenario, drawing the characters, animating the whole thing and performing the final cut).


Episode 1 : Explose-moi (Burst-me ? Do me hardly ? lol)





Episode 2 : Allume-moi (Turn me on)

Multiple monitor calibration

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So you're some lucky guy (or at least a serious one) and you have two LCD/CRT monitors and a calibration device ? And you do not know how to load different ICC profiles for each monitor ?
Well, it's stupid simple, with the windows control panel, you can't. And neither with the nvidia control panel.

Fortunately, LUT manager does exist, and it's free (well, not gpl-free, but at least money-free).

The main part of the readers won't be concerned by today's post, but I hope it'll help the ones in need :wink:

http://www.exactscan.com/lutmanager/