Quand j'avais une scie dans tête...

MONSTER BURNER

2011-11-15T20:35:00.001-05:00

//// Loading Screen

//// In-game Animations

//// Menu Characters

//// Menu Screens

//// Some Tutorial Screens

//// End Level Screens

//// Credits Screen

//// That's pretty much my contribution for the game it-self
and then I played with that for some marketing assets.

//// General Esthetic Contribution

////A sculpture I did from the main Baddies...

//// That even got some traveling opportunities!

//// Monster Burner is a super nice little ipad project from Ubisoft I'm currently working on. I did a first 3 months contract last July to Septembre to help finish the initial game which is now out there and running and these are most of the things I did. I just started a second 3 months contract, now assuming art direction, so probably more of this to come.

Check it out on the App Store!

fac off!

2011-08-21T14:39:00.001-04:00

//// Character Line-Up

//// One of the stories

//// Comic project with writer Erick Lasnel.
Single panel gags about student life style.

Still looking for a publisher, if anyone's interested, contact us!

L'Évangile selon Hawk

2011-08-21T14:26:00.003-04:00

//// Character Study of Hawk & the Ghosts

//// First Pages

//// Comic project with writer Erick Lasnel.
Western-fantasy story about Hawk, an old bad-ass shaman priest, sent out to save a little town terrorized by an Indian and a Yankee ghost.

Still looking for a publisher, so if anybody's interested, contact us!

WIZORB!

2011-07-11T20:53:00.000-04:00

//// Box Art

PIXELTAO's Jonathan Lavigne teamed up with friends Justin Cyr, Jean-François Major and Paul Robertson on this new game WIZORB

MALEVOLĒNS

2011-06-24T14:24:00.004-04:00

//// Character Research

//// My friend David Routhier and I wanted to do a quick short together. We brainstormed for 2 days and came up with a pretty nice idea about this evil guy, who would dictates his plans of world destruction to his twin secretaries, only to get busted in the end by this ninja space ranger.

It all became just a bit to big of a project for the time we had, but I still extrapolated this fake poster, cause I really liked the concept.

Maybe we'll go back to the short sometime around.

[ Diabolic Scheme - The Hives ]

The Big Idea

2011-06-24T14:07:00.002-04:00

//// The Big Idea
- 94 names cards
- 94 adjectives cards
- 1 point card
- 4 box cover assets

That was a huge amount of work I did for FUNFORGE!
But I had a pretty good time doing it!

Check it out!

Lanfeust Mag No. 142

2011-05-10T00:03:00.005-04:00

//// Rough Layout

//// Character Line-up

//// Lizzy Duncan

//// Matteo Duncan

//// Magasine's Table of Content Illustration

//// Happy Birthday, Mamy

//// Story by Laurent Habart
Fun project, I liked the classy robbery theme. First time I had to do so much night shots, it certainly was a bit tricky. The Characters evolved until the very end, mostly lizzy. I think I was finally getting somewhere on the table of content illustration.

Maybe more of the Duncan's in the futur...

GEEKFESTmtl 2011

2011-03-04T16:25:00.009-05:00

//// The Prints

//// The Event (Table 11-12)

//// Attending montreal's GEEKFEST
with my friends Jonathan Lavigne and Patrick Desilets

Mega Man TRIBUTE

2011-02-14T14:02:00.004-05:00

//// DRN-01: TRIBUTE

//// Former 2007-2008 research

//// I did this first piece for UDON's Mega Man TRIBUTE book and made it in!

MEGA MAN TRIBUTE LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER
-the book is premiering at the San Diego Comic-con at the UDON booth (#5037), July 20-24
-for fans not attending the show, you can preorder the book at UDONstore.com

MEGA MAN TRIBUTE SOFTCOVER
-The standard softcover edition is also available for preorder on amazon.com

The rest is just some Mega Man related stuff I did back in 2007-2008 that I never posted. It all influenced this new piece I did, so I figured I would finally show it here.

[ Spark Man Stage - Mega Man 3 ]

KING Crystal's ♥

2010-12-13T22:48:00.001-05:00

//// I just had a flash, now I wonder what's the story ^_^

[ Black Wave/Bad Vibrations - Arcade Fire ]

K's mischief

2010-12-08T01:51:00.001-05:00

//// Original Sketch & Rough Line

Saw this nice white wolf dog the other day. Did some sketches coming back home and I got really motivated by my first drafts.

[ Tame - Pixies ]

1, 2, testing?

2010-11-07T13:25:00.000-05:00

//// A little rough concept proposition for National Bank that didn't make it.
Oh well... ^_^

[ Su' mon Big Wheel (c'tait l'fun) - Les Cowboys Fringants ]

the FEEL BETTER challenge...

2010-10-18T16:01:00.006-04:00

//// Proposition Test

//// Select Profile

//// Cardio Exercises

//// Muscle Toning Exercises

//// Flexibility Exercises

//// Trophies

//// All of these for a web campaign that gets you moving through your daily routine. It was aimed at women with the look and everything, but it can work for everybody really.

You can try it via facebook here

[ Harde, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk ]

baronetage [ˈbærənɪtɪdʒ] n. (History / Heraldry) the order of baronets; baronets collectively

2010-10-10T16:14:00.004-04:00

//// Some Close-ups

//// This started as something completely different that could still come along eventually. Then a giant laughing baron atop a stock of barrels took over and looking for references it quickly revolved around prohibition, super nice vintage platform trucks and German waitresses. I was struggling with the baron's face when I walked by this amazing dozing smiling bulldog one day near my place and there you are.

[ The Grand Apartment - Louis XIV ]

THE GRAND ROBBERY...

2010-09-02T22:05:00.006-04:00

//// Sketches

//// I did the line of this one something like 7 months ago, then got stuck on colors and had to put it aside because of work. I was really looking forward finishing it and right now was the time ^_^

[ The Outsider - Marina and the Diamonds ]

JUST A HINT...

2010-08-24T00:34:00.003-04:00

//// As far as I know, the sixth character will be a downloadable one and will only come out with the DVD release of the movie.

And I strangely, sadly maybe, but honestly don't remember any of the codes to unlock the extra game modes. I can't even tell you if they are actually in the game right now or if it will be part of the downloadable content, cause it was all part of a marketing plan. But if they are in, they were all old games code like Sonic codes or KONAMI codes if I'm not mistaken.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD: THE GAME!

2010-08-23T17:24:00.063-04:00

//// Probably the best promotional piece we had on this.

//// This is the first BG mock up i did.
I'd say it ended up looking pretty much like it.

//// The game was kinda put on "hold" at some point for time and budget reasons and this is an option that was actually considered...

//// Those are some hipster studies i did based on Paul's sprite.

//// Those were drawn mostly by Jonathan Kim and Mariel Cartwright
and I tweaked and cleaned them in pixel.

//// Character Selection Screen

//// The original intention in the game was basically to have every possible character from the book as bosses, enemies or NPCs. So there would have been mid bosses in every levels before each exes. Obviously we had to cut a lot of those and also some level parts, so I've kinda put the concepts and studies back in here.

//// WORLD 1
Sub-boss would have been CRASH AND THE BOYS, we kept them as NPCs in Patel's intro.

//// WORLD 2
Here we thought of having a skateboard handrail grind chase sequence after Lucas' fight with the RPM's meter in a top corner or something, but it implied whole new sets of animation for every playable character so...

//// WORLD 3
One of the only level we were able to keep Envy and Lynette as sub-bosses.

We talked at some point about having an alternate battle inside Honest Ed with Todd creating crazy weapons from all the junk around him.

//// WORLD 4
This one originally started with a beach level with the guys from Super Spike V Ball as mid bosses, then a street part with a fight against Winnifred Hailey before getting on the street car.

And then there would have been a china town street part before the restaurant. That's maybe one cut I'm happy how it turned out.

But then I really wanted to have the players cross Ramona's house before jumping down in her garden to fight Roxy, this is one of the thing I kept as long as possible before having to finally cut it.

//// WORLD 5
Julie's party started with an October, Halloween themed street bit that was cut, but we were able to keep Robot-01 as a sub-boss.

Then we got to do this unique Super Fighting Robot Boss battle, but we had to drop a lot in the Twin's lair. It originally had 3 floors instead of one: a basement dungeon one, which was kind of twisted back in WORLD 2 as the nuclear set and a hunted mansion-like 2nd floor and then the Double Dragon 2 inspired shrine where you should have fought the energy twin dragon's from the movie as the sub-bosses before getting down to business with the K twins.

//// WORLD 6
This one was meant to be a bit longer to really feel a progressive weather change from winter to spring to summer and then to the eerie cemetery part.

I also had this idea of making a "Nega" counter part to every character, so whomever you'd play with would get to fight his own evils, but it didn't make it through game design.

//// WORLD 7
Here we were supposed to actually have a "lair of cool shit" section and a bar part before fighting Gideon.

//// MR CHAU'S RANDOM ENCOUNTER
I'm quite proud of this one ^_^

//// SHOPS

//// SUBSPACES
I thought we would have a lot more of those and we wanted to have the characters fly through them instead, or do all kind of cool tricks and references to old games like looping screen and stuff like that but it ended up being too much work for everybody.

One deception for me is the second fight with Gideon in here, we had a big placenta bubble thing to go over the mutated evil exes lower body part that would have made it clearer as what to attack exactly but it's integration was constantly pushed back until it was too late T_T.

//// ENDING CUTSCENES
It was meant to look more like old game endings where the characters are on a cliff and look at a vast land while credits unroll. I tried something...

//// EXTRA GAME MODES
I think this is something you'll need to download or unlock if I remember correctly.

//// DODGEBALL
Here I re-used the WORLD 4 beach level idea and we actually put the Super Spike V Ball dudes that Paul had designed in the crowds.

//// BATTLE ROYAL
And finally here is a little homage to some french marketing guy who kept promoting the game as being "all about kisses and cows", the tag line for the game being "kisses and chaos".

//// This is as good as it gets!
We've worked on this project for a year, half of it in Montreal where we were unfortunately very poorly managed, with an unqualified team and inappropriate tools which all got the game nearly canceled and drove everybody on the core team near depression. Then we had 5 crazy über intensive months in Chengdu's studio, where we had no time left and were all going completely crazy trying to pull this off.

Now it's done, it's out there and it should still kick ass pretty good!

Jonathan Lavigne was game designer;

Paul Robertson was lead animator on this and did all playable characters and strikers, almost all bosses and other things here and there;

Animation wise Justin Cyr, Jonathan Kim (persona) and Mariel Cartwright (kinuko) did pretty much all the rest

We also had a lot of help from most of Chengdu's studio, mostly on the programming and secondary animation side;

And I was in charge of all the backgrounds and over all graphics supervision as you can see here.

Hope you guys will like it!

[ Feel Good Hit of the Summer - Queen of the Stone Age ]

SQUACK MOTHA HUCKAAAAA!

2009-12-21T00:17:00.001-05:00

//// Mea Culpa

IS THIS IT?

2009-10-27T23:05:00.019-04:00

//// Sketches

//// Diana Ross, LA femme de sa vie?

//// Favorite Pose

//// Dernièrement j'ai fait un petit rush sur MICHEAL JACKSON en bandes dessinées. 6 pages en approximativement 7 semaines de travail à temps ultra partiel, scénario d'Érick Lasnel. Bien aimé le côté épreuve, ça m'a montré un peu ce que je pouvais faire en si peu de temps.

I recently did a little crunch on this MJ collective project, scripted by Érick Lasnel, 6 pages in aproximatively 7 weeks of more than part time work. Kinda happy with the time VS quality result...

[ Billie Jean - Micheal Jackson ]

SCOTT PILGRIM, A VIDEO GAME, TOO!

2009-09-19T17:46:00.004-04:00

Ubisoft Montreal is making a side-scrolling beat-em-up game to coincide with the film release in 2010! (Press Release)

Yes indeed, and I'm part of the crew YAY! ^_^

I'm back in the box for this game only with most of former TMNT GBA CREW and some awesome new recruits and we're gonna try to kick ass as hell with this project!

Dead Disco - Metric

These are the concequences of our reciprocities...

2009-09-17T22:10:00.030-04:00

//// BIG RANGE HUNTING 2

//// Menus & Huds Design

//// GANGSTAR West Coast Hustle

//// Menus & Huds Design

//// Icons Design

//// GUITAR ROCK TOUR 2

//// Menus and Huds Research

//// Stage Research Concepts

//// Concept Line-up Supervision (executed by friend Hugo Dourado)

//// TVSK

//// Menus & Huds Research

//// Icons Design

//// DUNGEON HUNTER

//// Intro Sequence Animatic

//// Final Gameloft Product

//// Light Castle Concept

//// Dungeon Window Faery Design

//// Stained Glass 1st Proposition

//// Stained Glass Finals

//// Stained Glass Proportions

//// Faeries Illustration

//// Monsters Exploration Concepts

//// Dark King Exploration Concept

//// Queen Research Concepts

//// BATTLE TANKS

//// Tanks Research Concepts

//// Achievements Icons

//// Transition Screen

//// PACKAGE CONCEPTS/EXPLORATIONS

//// SKATER NATION

//// Concept Line-up Supervison (executed by friend Hugo Dourado)

//// Voilà ce qui, mis à part quelques design de menus que j'hésite à mettre sur mon blog, marque la fin de mon passage chez gameloft. Après un an et demie de lutte contre une administration complètement débâtie, je clos et enterre tous mes démons avec ce dernier poste.

Une compagnie pleine de potentielle, puisqu'ils déservent un marché asssoiffé. J'ai vu reluir des projets des plus intrigants, mais toujours insoutenus par un manque de compétences et de connaissances à tous les niveaux, figés par un système pyramidal des plus inadéquats.

je dis merci et envois mes encouragements les plus sincères aux certaines personnes qui tentent de faire bouger les choses, tous vos efforts seront surement récompensés le jours où vous aussi quitterez le bourbier et je souhaite une excellente continuation à tous ceux qui s'y plaisent, puisse votre adoration du star system et de la contrefaçon être assouvie en paix...

//// The gameloft of today is in very deep need of changes, from the core out ^_^

[ mindala jinka - NOSFELL ]

CMYK you got me this time T_T

2009-07-13T22:50:00.009-04:00

//// Tina

//// Character Development

//// 1st Pitch

//// Color Study

//// Post Card

//// Jimmy's Tattoo

//// Enfin, après une gestation éternelle, allongée de part et d'autre par le boulot et la vie en ce qu'elle est, un petit projet de BD super cool, 5 pages scénarisées par Laurent Habart, le tout paru tout récemment dans le magasine Lanfeust No 121.

C'était, pour ma part, un premier essais officiel à la BD, doublé d'une première parution dans un magasine et ce fût ma fois hyper enrichissant, grandissant. Seul petit bémole, je ne suis pas trop habitué avec l'impression papier, alors je me suis un peu fait flouer par la CMYK. Mais bon, rien de bien grave, voici quand même les planches dans leur version originale.

//// Here's my first official take at comics and also first magazine published work. A 5 pages colaboration with french scriptwriter Laurent Habart. You can find this almost 9 months, part-time-super-slow-progression project it in the #121 issue of Lanfeust magasine if you're interested.

My only concern, since I'm not really use to print my stuff, is that I kinda forgot about the CMYK thing :S, so colors are a bit off in the magazine, but nothing really bad. Here are the original pages anyways

[ J'aime Vous Voir Quitter - Islands ]

SIBERIAN strike

2009-06-09T00:21:00.008-04:00

//// Character Research

//// Une petite bd campagne de pub que j'ai illustré chez gameloft pour le jeu iphone du même nom. Scénario de Julien Blondel si je ne m'abuses, super clair, super classe. Une page par semaine, 6 semaines, une chance que j'avais pris de l'expérience un peu avant (LANFEUSTmag No 121, p.63)

//// A short comic I illustrated for a gameloft iphone game. A page a week, 6 weeks from scratch, scenario from Julien Blondel. Lucky me, I recently took some experience which can be seen this month of june 2009 in LANFEUSTmag, a french comic magazine.

[ Melody Of Certain Three - Blonde Redhead ]

"That's all Folks!"

2009-04-07T00:20:00.003-04:00

//// Props Design

//// Ca fait que bin c'est ça là, c'est tout...
Dernier truc à montrer sur le sujet, voilà tout ce que j'ai fait dans les derniers 4-5 posts, par rapport a ce projet féérique mort né...

//// Soooo, that pretty much sums it up I guess...
Last piece I wanted to show from that dear lost project I've been posting about for the last few weeks...
Oh well...

[ Pour une dernière fois - Gerry Boulet ]

JELLYfishes...

2009-03-22T19:54:00.006-04:00

//// Environment Design Concept

//// Pops Design & Details

//// Le projet le plus motivant sur lequel j'ai presque participé dans ma carrière du jeu vidéo...

//// I was radiating enthusiasm on this project and it was brought down for lack of a core spine. Shame...

[ I fought Piranhas - The White Stripes ]

Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997

2009-02-23T22:41:00.003-05:00

//// Main Character Study

//// First Character Line-up

//// Second Character Line-up

//// Ennemies Design

//// Mis à part les ennemies, voici quelques designs impersonnels, mâchées par le manège décisionnel. Eût été retenu, un habile mélange des deux line-ups, avec un fort penchant pour le premier...

//// Some feedback distorted character designs, only the enemies remained sincere. We would have gone for something right in the middle of both line-ups...

[ Soul Suckin' Jerk - Beck ]

A long time ago, in a quite promising land...

2009-02-11T21:07:00.007-05:00

//// At first we didn't really knew what we were heading for...

//// It then became a bit clearer, like being able to see your own feet in a thick fog.

//// " Nous étions tous en voyage, quand un brouillard s'approche, C'est la forêt des regrets amers, des doutes sans rémissions, à gauche, une vieille femme me dit:
- Ne faites jamais ce que je fis.
- Qu'est-ce que vous fîtes?
- Je ne fis rien, je ne fis rien de ma vie. "

[ Forest - Jean Leloup ]

and all that could have been...

2009-02-02T22:16:00.008-05:00

//// Jungle (Mesoamerican)

//// Mountain (Asian)

//// Flying islands (Celtic)

//// Iceberg (Atlantis)

//// Flying islands (Egypt)

//// Volcano (Babylon)

//// Quelques concepts de recherche d'environnements, les premiers réunissant une tonne d'idées, question d'avoir une base pour rêver la suite. Chaque environnement était inspiré d'une civilisation ancienne perdue, mythique ou légendaire et imaginé comme une île, un microclimat isolé, perdu, intemporel, entouré de nuages...

//// Some early environment concepts giving a broad look upon what could have been. Each environment, inspired by ancient, mythic or legendary civilizations would have been portrayed as an isolated island, out of space and time, surrounded by clouds of some sort...

[ Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails (Still) ]

again...

2008-12-15T20:13:00.011-05:00

//// BARAJA ESPAÑOLA 4 EN 1

//// Cover Art

//// Characters Studies

//// Pixel Character Line-up

//// MII RACING (aborted)

//// Menus Development

//// Visual Studies

//// Visual Development

//// MII FOOT (aborted)

//// Cover Propositions

//// Menu Study

//// Menus Design

//// Interface Design

//// Environment Concept

//// Voici, voilà, encore du GAMELOFT®. À peu près tous des jeux qui n'ont pas vu le jour, si je ne m'abuse...

//// Here again, aborted GAMELOFT® games...

[ T'attends - Richard Desjardins ]

GAMELOFT ®

2008-10-02T22:50:00.015-04:00

//// ASTÉRIX

//// Fake Screenshots

//// CHUCK NORRIS: BRING ON THE PAIN

//// Character Design

//// Visual Design

//// LUCHA LIBRE: DESAFIO TOTAL

//// Cover Studies

//// Character Design

//// Visual Study

//// Environment Design

//// Menu Design

//// BRAIN CHALLENGE

//// Character Studies

//// TOKYO CITY NIGHTS

//// Turntable Artwork

//// POCKET CHEF

//// Character Study

//// MYSTERY MANSION PINBALL

//// Character Study

//// Alors, vous aurez compris, plein de truc que j'ai fais pour des jeux maintenant sortis ou bien enfouis.

//// Yup... random stuff I did for games to be or not.

[ Pink Safari - Pamela Hute ]

ZONE 3

2008-10-02T22:35:00.002-04:00

//// Un design de dragon "chinois" que j'ai fait en 2007 pour un bracelet dans la télésérie "Minuit le soir" chez ZONE 3...

//// A design I did in 2007 for a prop on "Minuit le soir", a tv show of ZONE 3...

[ Pay the man - The Offspring ]

PUB?

2008-10-02T22:06:00.004-04:00

//// Visual Study

//// Storyboard Research

//// Une idée comme ça que j'avais illustrée/proposé chez Sardines Productions au début 2008 pour une intro télé rigolotte suite aux demandes des producteurs...

//// Some ideas I illustrated/proposed from a pitch for a funny TV show intro at Sardines Productions in early 2008...

[ Scabs, Guns and Peanut Butter - Marylin Manson ]

Les Croquemitaines...

2008-10-02T21:12:00.004-04:00

//// Le bout du monde

//// La ferme de citrouilles

//// La forêt de brocolis

//// Des petits concepts que j'ai fait aux cours de l'année 2007 pour une futur série télé? qui va déchirer je l'espère.
"Les Croquemitaines", tous droits réservés à Messire Jean-François "entrepreneurship" Ferland, un très bon copain à moi que je ne vois malheureusement pas assez souvent.

//// Some concepts I did in 2007 for a possible tv show of my great friend Jean-François Ferland, all rights reserved.

[ Les croquemitaines - Jean-Michel Coutu ]

ELECTRIC saloppes

2008-09-16T20:02:00.017-04:00

//// pt.1

//// pt.2

//// Evolution (bigger version)

//// Sketches

//// Un petit concept que j'ai évolué tout spécialement, en un peu moins d'un mois, pour le ECFS v.2 de ce cher ALBERTO ruiz diaz.

J'y suis vraiment allé à fond la caisse les soirs et week-ends, au chalet, à la maison, au local C'est partis d'un autre concept que j'avais et ça à pris forme un peu tout seul, j'ai commencé par dessiner plein de meufs random dans des poses de course que je trouvais intéressantes et je leur ai tranquillement donné une direction.

Le "soir" du deadline à 3heure AM, j'ai conclus sur un truc, ELECTRIC saloppes pt.1, dont je n'étais pas trop satisfait et à mon grand bonheur ce même deadline fût repoussé de quelques jours. Je suis alors partis en peur et en esseyant de corriger ce qui me gênait, j'ai fini par refaire la totale en 2 jours et demis, pt.2

//// ELECTRIC saloppes pt.2 is concept I over-rushed in 2 1/2 days especially for the ECFS v.2 from ALBERTO ruiz diaz, after almost a month of reserch & development and one night of insatisfaction with pt.1.

[ she's lost control LIVE 9-15-1979 - Joy Division ]

KRÜG's talk beautiful machine...

2008-08-18T20:32:00.009-04:00

//// 2011 Update

//// Original Version

//// Sketches

//// Evolution (bigger version)

//// OUAF! Ouaf! ouaf! Beaucoup de changement dans ma vie, des voyages, de nouveaux amis, de nouvelles visions, de nouveaux horizons. J'aimerais bien poster plus souvent, mais comme ce blog est aussi mon portfolio, je me limite à ce qui me plaît le plus et dernièrement j'ai produit surtout pour le travail, plein de trucs que je pourrai éventuellement posté.

Et donc, entre tout ça, un petit concept de véhicule que je traine, ma foie, depuis au moins 8-9 mois, toujours sur le coin de la table. Voici donc, la 'cavalier sherif' de KRUG's...

//// A lot happened in the last months, been to paris for 3 months for work, had a supercalifragilisticexpialidoucious time, met tons of wonderfull people, saw the world wasn't flat after all. New life, new feelings, new ways, new visions, new horizons, new drawing.

Here's a little machine concept I had on the corner of my desk for the past 8-9 months or so. Finally got to put it in color, so here it is, hope you enjoy!

[ These Long Roads - Rue Royale ]

Artbook CFSL 02

2008-05-13T19:14:00.003-04:00

//// Café Salé voilà. Que dire de plus sinon cfsl.net
Un 2e artbook méga top classe voit le jour ce 3 juillet et j'en fais parti oui oui!

//// Café Salé is a young and promising art forum wich recently produced an awesome artbook with tons of artists frequenting the forum cfsl.net
Now there's a second artbook coming this July 3rd and this time I'm part of it yeah!

[ 100% VIP - Philippe Katerine ]

ECFS v1.0

2008-04-15T07:55:00.004-04:00

//// Enthousiasme infini, le projet ''Eye Candy From Stranger v1.0'' monté de toute pièce par Lucio Alberto Ruiz-Diaz et auquel j'ai participé se retrouve bientôt sur les tablettes!
2 livres géniaux réunissant le travail d'artistes du monde entier sur la thématique des femmes, les filles, les nanas, les gonzesses...

Vous aurez toutes les infos et plus sur processjunkie.blogspot.com

//// Happy Happy Joy Joy! ''Eye Candy From Stranger v1.0'', a 2-books-all-around-the-world-artists-gathering project concretized by Lucio Alberto Ruiz-Diaz finally hits the shelves!
I'm part of it, maybe you're part of it and you can surely find all the details about it right here processjunkie.blogspot.com

[ Illegal Tender - Louis XIV ]

DORMIR l'homme gris... / LYING within myself...

2008-02-06T21:44:00.002-05:00

//// Mon film étudiant, 2004. Je m'en suis écoeuré pendant trop longtemps. Je renoue.

//// My 2004 student film. I've been trying to hide it for too long. I acknowledge, I concede.

[ Imperméable [mouillée des deux côtés] - Les Georges Léningrad (personal mix) ]

s'abstenir, paraître, reigner...

2007-12-06T01:02:00.000-05:00

//// Moi et quelques copain avons fondé l'ordre des Princes d'Esquisse, une société fraternelle d'artistes visant à nous forcer à dessiner et dash ou créer des images... sous forme de dessins...

Voici une de ces images, née d'une tache de vieux café sal, le Roi des singes à plumes et son conseillé portant un regard paisible, assuré et nostalgique sur la vallée, le royaume et la vie. À noter, le sceptre de Super Mario Bros. 3.

//// Some friends of mine and myself have formed the Princes d'Esquisse order, just a motivation thing to get us drawing on more regular or frequent basis, at long last. Here is a little something born from an old dirty coffee stain.

King of the feathered monkeys and his trusty attendant, carrying a peaceful, assured and nostalgic glance over valley, kingdom and life. Note the Super Mario Bros. 3 like scepter.

[ Wake Up - Arcade Fire ]

UNprocessed...

2007-12-06T00:41:00.001-05:00

//// Voici un truc pris tel quel dans sont état naturel existentiel. J'ai un nouveau job très créatif, donc plutôt demandant, alors j'ai un peu moins de temps ou j'en prends un peu moins pour moi. Voici quand même.

//// Here's a draft I had a lot of fun doing. I've been missing time to push my stuff lately since I started a new job. kind of a lame excuse, maybe, I know.

[ Blanc-Bec - Buck65 ]

there was a time...

2007-10-25T00:46:00.000-04:00

//// Défunt projet je crois maintenant que fut un jour l'ambition de recréer en haute définition une petite séquence d'animatique réalisée ultérieurement pour le jeu TMNTGBA. Cette ruelle était un prototype pour la chose, mais beaucoup trop d'eau s'est écoulé depuis et l'envie n'y est plus, alors je 'can' le projet indéfiniment...

//// A long time ago, I planned to rework an animatic sequence i had done on TMNTGBA. I just waited too long in the process and now it doesn't feel right anymore, so I think this still is all it's gonna get...

[ An Ode to No One - The Smashing Pumpkins ]

you have to love the way no one has seen him yet...

2007-10-02T15:51:00.003-04:00

//// 2011 update, I took a new shot at the original fake horror B-movie poster idea.

//// More Art Shell

//// Une 2e mise en page, un peu plus sobre. Je me suis un peu lassé du gros titre impotent.

//// Here's a softer composition. I dropped the title to give more space to what's actually going on in the picture.

//// Original Version

//// Bouyeah! god j'ai aucune patience. Encore une fois, j'ai commencé a focuser proche proche le nez collé sur les personnages, je les ai fignolé beaucoup trop longtemps, alors une fois rendu à faire tout le reste, dont les cent mille poissons, en plus d'être déjà tanné de voir l'image, il fallait que je maintienne un certain niveau de détails. Bon, je ne me suis quand même pas fait exploser les neuronnes, mais je suis assez pas mal satisfait!

//// So impatient! I get bored of my stuff so fast it's a shame. Plus, I always do the same mistake, I start my things working for hours on a screw in the background, when I get to do everything around, I'm already looking forward to do something else. This time the fishes almost took off my sanity, but I'm pretty pleased with the results.

[ Unholy, Dirty And Beautiful - David Usher ]

ne reste qu'un flou à l'horizon, la veine blanche, les agmydales...

2007-09-12T22:03:00.002-04:00

//// Sketches

//// "Je suis incapable de dessiner pour rien, sans que ça développe sur une composition globale", dis-je à ma mère, au chalet et la totale m'est venue en tentant de prouver le contraire...

//// Back this early summer, I was saying to my mother I just couldn't draw something out of context...

[ Désespéré - Daniel Bélanger (Tricycle, 2 de 3) ]

josephKING...

2007-08-31T22:17:00.001-04:00

//// Sketches

//// L'idée de base, c'est l'emblème. Je voulais développer une sorte de sceau familial à partir des emblèmes actuels, j'ai mêlé ça aux "Black Spades", j'ai fais quelques croquis, mais ça a fini en dessous de mon lit.

Au début du mois, j'ai participé à un concours de design de chandails, j'ai ressortis le coq à 2 têtes et une ce titre ridicule s'y est collé, "the laughing cocks".

Il y a 2 semaines, je gribouillais à Trois-Pistoles, un petit chariot romain pour les "Spades" et ce gros méchant qui rit. Un chariot, ça doit être tiré par quelque chose ou par quelqu'un d'autre. Du coup, un 2e vilain qui rit, the laughing cocks, the laughing twins, the BLACK twins, voilà. En plus j'essais un nouveau style de colo.

//// Started out a long time ago with the crest, found some actual family crest and mixed it up with the "Spades" thing then let it aside since it wasn't going anywhere.

A month ago, a T-shirt contest came around and I dig the two headed rooster thing out of the grave ending up with a title that said "the laughing cocks".

Fast forward two weeks ago, doodling at 3-pistoles, first thing that came out was that laughing dude riding a roman kart and karts need to be pulled. So those two laughing dudes reminded me of "the laughing cocks" thing or the laughing twins OR The BLACK twins, there you go. Plus I'm trying out a new coloring technique.

[ Black Snake Moan - Black Snake Moan Soundtrack ]

c'te marie-couche-toi-là, ça prennait pas l'pen à Papineau pour la convaincre...

2007-08-24T15:07:00.000-04:00

//// 2011 update , I've added some sketches from the same era

//// Original Post

//// J'ai maintenant découvert les brushs personalisées dans photoshop et c'est la joie!! Donc retour à la base, des feufilles. Un très vieux sketche quelque part à la base, pour commencer, totalement et absolument retappé et l'autre, un sketch de Trois-Pistoles vraiment retravaillé, mais tout simple, avec une brush style plume feutrée.

Et je dois ce merveilleux titre de post à Jared Karnas qui a sortie ça un soir au chalet autour du feu.

//// I finally discovered the world of custom brushes in photoshop, what, in all that is holy, was I doing before!? Lots of fun in sight!

So, a first sketch, from an earlier period, completely redrawn with happiness and fun and the second one, from a trip to Trois-Pistoles, reworked with a beveled marker like brush

[ Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk ]

companion PANZA...

2007-08-24T14:13:00.000-04:00

//// Original Sketch + FREE Rabbit

//// Je déserres les fesses tranquillement. Je devenais de plus en plus obsédé et contraignant sur le sujet de mes dessins, cherchant toujours des sujets plus complexes les uns que les autres, finalement rien ne sortait. Alors une petite oie, juste comme ça...

//// I'm trying to let things go a bit more loose. I've been restraining myself lately, always looking for more complex subjects, to a point where almost nothing came out. So here is a 'simple' goose.

[ Sure we had knives around - Don Caballero ]

PARNACLASS...

2007-08-24T13:57:00.000-04:00

//// OUÉ!! on est aller au chalet de PNRIOU, et, outre boire pis farter comme des démons, nous dessinâmes férocement et plus que régulièrement (plein de truc en production hihi ^_^). Voici quelques caricatures de quelques gens présents.

//// Big trip at PNRIOU's pretty shack. 6 friends, 3 days on site, 150 beers, 10' bottle of Jack and rhum, and still, we drew like crazy mo'fo's! Here are some caricatures of some of the folks that were there.

[ Radio Friendly Unit Shifter - Nirvana ]

récidiviste dans l'âme...

2007-08-24T13:18:00.001-04:00

//// Le premier c'est aux bons vieux 'laurentiens', à moitié pas de couleurs sur du papier d'imprimante cheap, en beauce, un jour d'attente rien à faire. L'autre, bin c'est au pastel gras, tant qu'à les avoir, à St-Simon près de Trois-Pistoles, au chalet de PNRIOU, le fleuve à 45 pieds du bord.

//// First one is a St-Elzéar, Beauce, landscape. Trapped there on a waiting day, with good old 'laurentiens' on a dull white printer paper. And second one, oil pastels, why not use them a bit more? St-Simon, near Trois-Pistoles, PNRIOU's family chalet, 45' to the Fleuve St-Laurent. Pretty gorgeous view we had.

[ Jumping Someone Else's Train - The Cure ]

moi, l'enfant débile...

2007-08-09T01:33:00.000-04:00

//// Dans mes plus récents souvenirs de 4e année du primaire, les pastels gras c'était bin bin trippant. Voulant justement pratiquer mes théories d'la couleur, j'me suis dis pourquoi pas!? Le pastel gras, on va s'entendre tout de suite là, ça donne le goût d'esseyer d'autre médium. C'est quand même comique, mais tu y va pas dans l'détails trop trop.

Alors voici, les 2 seules études que j'ai fais, aux alentours de mon chalet au début du mois.

//// Oil pastel. First time since 4th grade, pretty nasty medium. Wanted to try some color studies, talked about it for a couple of months and finally get to it at the begginning of this month. This is from around my chalet, an hour and a half north of St-Jérôme. The good thing about it is, now I want to try something else, maybe watercolours.

[ Quossé qu'on ferait pas pour se faire plaisir - Les Denis Drolet ]

PINEBLUFF memorium - Copy of Untitled Project 4 auto-save 33...

2007-08-08T19:30:00.004-04:00

(bigger version)

//// Après des millénaires de gossage, d'empèchement et d'imprévus. Un petit projet adobe : animer dans photoshop/imageready, montage after effects et la musique avec audition. Le tout dans le but principalement d'apprendre after effects et de me remettre dans le bain de l'animation et de la vidéo. Un peu décevant par contre de ne pas pouvoir vous montrer la version non-compressée...

//// So here it is, after tons of issues. My little adobe baby : animated in photoshop/imageready, after effect compositing and audio montage with audition. This all started with the crazy ambition to learn after effects, ended up being my first true animation film since school. A little deceiving I cannot show the real uncompressed full of details and shits thing though...

[ 10 Miles High - Nine Inch Nails (personal mix) ]

paroxysm

2007-06-05T17:50:00.000-04:00

/// Probablement la dernière illustration sur ce thème, malgré que le projet mère ne soit pas encore terminé. Ça fait un bout que le concept me hante, quoique très flou, alors hier je me suis attablé et j'ai concretisé sommairement la chose: un petit rough tout croche, mais prometteur. Emplis d'excitation, j'ai mis mon cadran ce matin pour me lever et commencer la chose. Expulsion soudaine et totale, et voilà, une journée comme je les aime: gratifiante!

//// A little concept I was brainstorming for some time now. Finally, yesterday night, it all came together. I got up early this morning and photoshop it down, at last, nice and tight. I'm kinda proud of the rough vibe, it's something I'm trying to get out more in my work recently so...

[ Stealing Fat - The Dust Brothers ]

Rachelle

2007-05-17T15:49:00.000-04:00

//// Enfin des photos de ma première sculpture, fait en SUPERsculpey rose, peinte à l'acrylique avec touches de vernis à ongles, cheveux de rallonge et cils en brosse à dent, le tout en 4 jours vraiment sur un coup de tête l'été 2006. Comme je ne pensais pas vraiment me rendre jusqu'au bout d'un projet si inusité, je n'avais pas mis de structure métalique, alors j'ai du la faire cuire avec la tête accotée sur une cannette de 7UP. Et elle a une amande en écaille dans la tête...

//// Pictures! This is a very unexpected project that bursted up sometime during summer 2006. It is my first sculpture and is made from pink SUPERsculpey, acrylic and nail gloss, synthetic hair and the eyelashes are made from toothbrush bristles. Since I hadn't planned to do so much, there is no wire structure to support it's weight, so I had to cook it with it's head leaned on a 7Up can. Tought it needed a brain, so there's an almond in his head ^_^

[ La Brune - Louise Attaque ]

polydécassage

2007-05-11T16:55:00.000-04:00

//// Une petite vite que j'avais promis à une copine. Maintenant avec une petite modification pour l'éthique, bien que ça me chagrine au plus profond de mon incompréhension naïve.

//// From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : In warfare,ramming is a technique that was used in the air, sea and tank combat. The term originated from battering ram, which is a siege weapon used to bring down fortifications by hitting it with force, of which the momentum of the ram being sufficient to damage the target. Thus, in warfare ramming refers to hitting a target by running oneself into the target.

[ Riverbed 6 - Buck65 ]

the BLACK's pain...

2007-04-18T01:08:00.000-04:00

//// Et bin voilà, j'dois dire que j'ai eu un peu de difficulté à rendre celle-ci qui est le concept à la base de Maggy Zoe et truc machin. En cours de processus j'ai un peu trop détaillé sur les gonzesses et j'ai un peu doublé le projet, alors de revenir sur le concept initiale après avoir terminé les 2 filles, avec encore des poses et une composition de présentation, neutres, sympatiques, ça me saoulait un peu, mais le final global, total devrait être intéressant alors je continue...

//// YEAH! half the job's done. This was the starting concept from which the badassed girls emerged, I was kind a bored of doing a second static/presentation composition but it should all end up pretty interesting. Hope so... and now the tricky part...

[ HYPERPOWER - NIN ]

Maggy Zoe & Brigitta P. Florens's early rumbles

2007-04-04T16:51:00.000-04:00

//// Ouéé des meufs bien mortelles pour un petit projet tout balaise qui se développe au moment même où vous lisez ce texte ridicule. Patience à moi, à toi et à vous mesdames...

//// So it is, badass chicks, first of 4 steps towards a little something i'm working on. I'm thrilled, isn't anybody else?

[ Unwanted - Avril Lavigne ]

le gentil robot SS

2007-03-07T03:40:00.001-05:00

//// 2011 update

//// Montage Concept

//// Original Art

//// Parait qu'il faut couper le cordon tôt ou tard, alors voici, après d'innombrables péripéties, une épopée germaine pour mon brave ♠-001, le tout intégrée sur une image de vinyl dérobée sur gugueul. À noter que le SS du titre est en référence aux éclaires qui lui sorte du bidule et non aux terribles SS de la guerre...

//// It seems I must conclued. Robots, upskirts, sadomasochistic nurses, very geeky, mounted up on a goggle record picture.

NOTE: 'SS' stands for the lightnings coming out of his gear...

[ Abra Cadaver - The Hives ]

♠ - 001

2007-03-05T18:09:00.000-05:00

//// Design de robot pour une illustration qui ne saurait tarder...

//// Robot design for an upcoming work...

[ Gwely Mernans - Aphex Twin ]

DUVAL

2007-02-26T15:23:00.000-05:00

//// Ça c'est un de mes chums à peu près dans ma cuisine, un sketch qui commence avec rien, en joke, pis qui fini pu...

//// A friend, in something that looks almost like the kitchen, I was trying to explain him something and I drifted...

[ Manitoba: Dans l'bois - Mononc' Serge ]

SUGBA

2007-02-23T18:23:00.002-05:00

//// 2007 SURF'S UP GBA

(Click to play / Cliquez pour jouer)

//// J'avais oublié les petits trophés lors de ma série de posts de job, alors voici. Les designs originaux ne sont pas de moi, je les ai seulement refaient au pixel avec une petite animation de scintillements.

//// Here, pixels again for a trophy room.

[ Glory Box - Portishead ]

JIB

2007-02-22T20:44:00.000-05:00

//// Character & Mood Research

//// Storyboard Studies

//// Essais pour un de mes pots qui produit présentement un film de kung-fu québécois en live action avec de l'intégration d'animation multidisciplinaire, dont je vous donnerai sûrement des nouvelles un jour...

//// Some research for one of my bud's project, a live action quebec kung-fu madness with 2d, 3d and puppet integrations. To be continued...

[ Faut se le Dire - Louise Attaque ]

TMNT minions

2007-02-22T20:37:00.000-05:00

//// Un petit truc que j'ai fait pendant le projet TMNTGBA et qui s'est retrouvé printé tout croche sur un T-shirt avec des couleurs à botche, regret...

//// Something I did during the TMNTGBA madness wich ended up printed all wrong on small T-shirts, shed a tear...

[ Push - Moist ]

TMNTGBA

2007-02-22T20:10:00.001-05:00

//// 2006 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES GBA

//// Gameplay Sketches

//// Movie Character Pixel Adaptation (DEV Team on the bottom row)

//// Environment study

//// Cinematic Study

//// Portraits

//// In-game Backgrounds

//// Aborted Cinematic Assets

[ Genocide - The Offspring ]

OSGBA

2007-02-22T19:39:00.002-05:00

//// 2006 OPEN SEASON GBA

//// Mostly Cinematic Assets

//// The Mines
Le masterpiece à moi du jeu c'est tout moi qui a fait a part le level design et les voutes mauves dans le background, participation spéciale de Simon Nadeau...

My masterpiece, I've done everything except the level design and a special contribution of Simon Nadeau on the little purple caves...

//// Une ambiance du tonnerre: choix des couleurs, pluie et effets d'ambiance sont de moi. Les éléments de décors comme tel sont un mix de moi et Jonathan Lavigne qui a aussi fait l'interface.

//// A stormy environment study. Jonathan Lavigne did the interface and some elements of the background, but everything else, colours, rain and the hole effect was my job, pretty happy with it.

[ Just a Tought - Gnarls Barkley ]

PJ'SKKTOGOTMGBA

2007-02-22T18:54:00.001-05:00

//// 2005 PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THE MOVIE GBA

//// Color Studies

//// Cinematic Assets

//// I've lost a lot of work from this game, probably trapped inside some dead computer's belly somewhere...

[ Jungle Groove - Donkey Kong Country ]

bref, soit, certe...

2007-02-22T14:36:00.000-05:00

//// Un petit truc, que dis-je, un petit truck fait l'an passé, ou presque, anyway. Ce petit camion me fait toujours bien rigoler, probablement par ça naïveté, ou la mienne...

//// Done around last year, like it very much, like the naive feeling...

[ Neighborhood #2 (Laika) - The Arcade Fire ]

quand on étaient les FANTASTIC 4...

2007-02-18T04:15:00.000-05:00

//// Composition Concept

//// Close-ups

//// Moi, Kim pis Nick au resto à déjeuners, une seule facture, un délire de POWER RANGERS à botche et quelques jours plus tard...

//// They always put us on the same bill when Kim, Nick and I go for breakfast, like we were some Super Team...

//// 2011 update
Here's another "Team" concept from that same period of 3 friends living together

[ Diabolic Scheme - The Hives ]

princess

2007-02-16T15:44:00.000-05:00

//// Je vous emmerde et je rentre à ma maison...

//// Get lost and auto-fancy...

[ Fifi F. - Les Georges Leningrad ]

Clovis McLane

2007-02-16T15:31:00.001-05:00

//// Ouais! alors, trademark absolu et global, Clovis McLane et les "Black SPADES", l'univers et tout ce qui en découle, c'est une idée en développement continue pour un jeu ou autre chose...

//// Something like a game/world project I'm working on slowly, Clovis McLane and the Black SPADES...

[ Stalker - FLCL ]

en attendant des filles qui dansent...

2007-02-16T15:18:00.000-05:00

//// Un trip cet été à mon chalet toute sur la même feuille, yé... ça marche pas vraiment, surtout la fille de droite, mais je l'aime bien quand même, je l'accepte, j'la juge pas...

//// A 3 day trip to my camp, I did one on each day, it doesn't really work, but I tought it was fun...

//// 2011 update
Another "perspective heavy" one from that period

[After Dark - Le Tigre ]

hornyNES

2007-02-16T15:08:00.000-05:00

//// Un midi crampé tsu seul comme une conne parceque dans un phrase vocale de quelqu'un à botche y'avait le mot...

//// Geeky, but it says it all...

[ Bounce - System of a Down ]

the 7th group...

2007-02-09T15:11:00.000-05:00

//// Encore, c'est surement un sujet qui va r'popper souvent, y'a à peu près 230 épisodes pis 4 long-métrages et c'est pas fini alors...

//// Again and surely not the last one, it's a very big on-going series with 4 movies so...

[ Full Nelson - Limp Bizkit ]

NARUTO-KUN

2007-02-09T14:58:00.000-05:00

//// AVIS À LA CLIENTÈLE: NARUTO c'est excellent, ça reste une série pour adolescents remplis de fillers à pu finir, mais c'est quand même divertissant (action/violence). L'histoire est classique Dragon Ball/Ninja scroll: plein de démons à fighter, pis pour d'la série, mais aussi pour la vie en générale, y'a des passes d'anim quand même assez torcheuses alors ça vaut un coup d'oeil et puis le premier film est assez incroyable...

//// WARNING: NARUTO is a very worth looking serie, there's a major filler problem, but still, a good FLCL/Dragon Ball story and the first movie is awesome...

[ Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away ]

SUPER MARIO BROS. 2

2007-02-04T22:44:00.000-05:00

//// Voilà, j'ai cotoyé l'univers des jeux OLD SCHOOL de près et je me suis amusé à créer cette image avec les graphics originaux. Surplus de temps libre oblige, j'ai aussi fait une version un peu plus Hi-res...

//// I had fun with MARIO BROS. 2's tilesets on the left one and then add a little resolution of mine on the right one...

[ all of SUPER MARIO BROS. 2's music ]

wolverine avec une grosse et une petite main...

2007-02-04T22:15:00.000-05:00

//// ± 2005

//// Color test with integrated textures and flagrant hand size problem...

//// Tant qu'à être sur google...

//// And a little photo montage

[ Y'all Want a Single - Korn ]

en attendant Justin...

2007-02-04T21:20:00.000-05:00

//// Un genre de speed paint en attendant Justin pour le gym après s'être claqués la série of the dead...

//// Kind of a speed paint while waiting for Justin to hit the gym, we had just finished the of the dead saga...

[ Poisson d'Avril - Marc Déry ]

moi, vu par un plomb...

2007-02-04T20:44:00.000-05:00

//// Original Sketch

//// En fait le plomb vient avant et quelques heures plus tard y'a, moi, vu par un plomb...

//// A little try at the fisheye, urban pirate, entitled something like 'as seen by the blast'...

[ L'estasi Dell'oro (The Ecstasy Of Gold) - The Good, The Badand the Ugly Original Soundtrack ]

SUPER MARIO BROS.

2007-02-04T19:53:00.000-05:00

//// Original Sketch

//// Un vieux truc retravaillé pour le nouveau blog...

//// An old old thing I tuned up...

[ Mu-Tron - Ladytron ]

E.P.I.C.

2007-02-04T17:59:00.001-05:00

//// the end of SHINOBI...

//// Une chire à tablette...

//// Just a WACOM trip...

[ Block Rockin' Beats - Chemical Brothers ]

//// the ENCOUNTER...

//// Demande de confrontation de la part de la demoiselle...

//// The lady asked for it...

[ Boss Stage - Megaman 3 ]

merely where it began...

2007-02-04T16:43:00.000-05:00

//// First Proposition

//// Second Proposition (w.i.p.)

//// Collaboration

//// Collaboration sur notre introduction en tant que collaborateurs dans la vie...

//// Nicolas Grenier and I were supposed to provide art for a student news paper, but things happened...

[ We Don't Wanna Die - The Unicorns ]