Fetch, a very short film

Hello guys,

We are really proud to announce that we have finally finished our short film rendered with appleseed "Fetch, a very short film"

You can watch it here or go to www.fetchaveryshortfilm.com

Fetch from appleseedhq on Vimeo.


Its a 19 month long side project done with the help of my friend François Beaune and many other people like Jonathan Topf and Ulric Santore to name a few.

See you later for the next one ! :)

Rendering is done

Today is the day the rendering phase is done. I'm proud of all that green. The compositing phase has already begun a long time ago and the film will be finished soon. Proud of that too !

Work in progress : Fetch - Random farm

Greetings fluffy ones,

We are finalizing the second part of our short film and dozens of pictures are rendered every day.

Have a closer look on my lovely blue puppy !

FETCH - Preview

Here is our first official preview of FETCH, the short we are working on with François.
Have a look and feel free to comment !
Later I'll post something about how and why.


Fetch Preview from appleseedhq on Vimeo.

See you around the Annecy Film Festival !!!

Work in progress : Mescaline - the Name and the Festival

Greetings Birds,

This week is full of "Annecy Animation Film Festival" around here. Attendees are arriving, getting their passes and getting ready to set the town on fire. Under the rain. We need those people.

François and I are finalising our official preview of FETCH for the festival, codename "Mescaline", our second short film made with appleseed the free-rendering-engine. To be clear, we aren't competing at the festival but we will show everything we have to everyone we drink a beer with.

My last post was about introducing our main character, now its time to meet her eternal nemesis, Wolfgang.

This shot is full of path tracing rays / motion blurred pixels / depth of field  / exr files / aovs / whatever you want. Have a look at the features this crazy renderer has. Its really cool.

Tomorrow, another post with moving pictures. And sound.

Work in progress : Mescaline - The Hood

Hey Birds,

I have been working for a year now on a little short of our own. The working title is Mescaline. My dear friend François is working on it as well. I'm doing the art, he is doing the tech. Simple as that.
Now its time for me to show a bit of what we already did. 

First things first, the main character, the Hood.

More to come in the next days, stay tuned !



 

Forest

working on new brushes ...

Wreck

Hi birds,

Here is my very first animation done with appleseed. I did it with my friends François (hardcore c++ jedi master) and Ulric (sound designer and freelance ghostbuster)

The goal was to use François's rendering engine appleseed and show what it was capable of to Siggraph Asia. Despite the perfectness of it, there was few constraints (hey its still an alpha afterall!) : no animated stuff on screen, 480 frames, something to tell about a wreck in the desert and a short deadline.

We decided to go for a slighty futuristic aircraft, about twice the size of a wwII fighter. We had to show how the rendering engine dealt with glossy reflective materials, indirect illumination and camera motion blur. I think we did something quite cool and I'm very happy about the result.

Ulric made an impressive work in a blink of an eye, so many thanks to him and his talent !

If you want to know more about appleseed, just visit the appleseed headquarters.


WRECK - Test Animation from appleseedhq on Vimeo.

Long time no see...

Sans plus attendre, quelques trucs.

Subway

Miaou cat

Un peu de bleu saturé de partout

Image rémanente de mon dernier rêve.

Aqua Knight Main Character

Modèle vivant

Back to business !

Travelling

tweet

ici.

Modele vivant

Poses de 5, 2 et 1 minutes.

Voila des croquis que j'ai fait ce matin du modèle vivant d'hier soir. Juste se rappeler des poses et de les dessiner en quelques secondes. Moins d'une minute par silhouette. Ça vaut pas les petites perles de Yannick ou celles de David (salut les gars!), mais c'est bien bon à faire.

Happy halloweeeeen !

Hey salut les rebelles, plus de deux mois sans updates, ça valait bien une illustration 3d ! Ouai ! whouhouuu! Et avec des explications, s'il vous plaît... Un week-end plein de films d'horreur, de soirée de l'étrange sur tf1 et de chat de l'enfer.

Pour tenter de produire quelque chose dans l'idée de fêter halloween, j'ai fait un petit croquis hier midi, pour m'occuper en attendant que ma crève décide de me lâcher. En réfléchissant une seconde, j'ai pensé que ça serait cool de faire une illustration en 3d avant lundi, histoire de fêter les fantômes et les petits enfants ghoules zombis gourmands.


Étant donné que j'avais déjà le personnage quelque part sur mes disques, j'ai pu passer le maximum de temps sur le reste. La mise en place de la scène est plutôt simple, j'ai utilisé zbrush + 3dsmax et vray + pas mal de bidouille dans photoshop.

Hier soir je me suis arrêté vers minuit pour regarder "paranormal activity" histoire de bien fêter halloween comme il se doit. Pas mal, c'est cool. Pas la peur bleue annoncée mais de quoi être un peu mal à l'aise une fois qu'il faut éteindre les lumières et attendre le sommeil. Le moindre bruit inhabituel devient tout de suite très intéressant. Tout à fait le genre de truc qu'il faut regarder un 31 octobre.

Pour rajouter une couche dans le domaine de l'horreur et du fantastique, je vous invite à lire une nouvelle de Stephen King qui s'appelle "the cat from hell" disponible dans le dernier recueil de nouvelles "just after sunset". L'histoire d'un tueur à gages à qui on propose de tuer... un chat. Un petit bijou de gore et d'écœurement total, rien qu'avec ces charmantes petites boules de poil qui font miaou. Bien sur, aucun animal n'est blessé pendant l'histoire. Par contre, les humains ramassent. Longue vie au chats...