Philippe Gaulier Blog

Tokyo sketches...

2011-08-21T00:30:00.012+01:00

We just came back from a trip to Japan to visit Yuko's family.
Here are a some of the sketches I've done in my little Moleskine sketchbooks: mostly very quick ones as we ran around all the time.
I used a classic big marker (round tip) and a brush pen (love those ones!).

Japan Tsunami...

2011-03-25T00:04:00.005Z

For those of you who haven't had a chance to donate for Japan yet, please don't forget that despite the fact that the Japan Tsunami story isn't making first page anymore it doesn't mean that the problem is over...
Between the thousands of people still missing, the food contamination problem ("Analysts expect a negative impact on export growth in the months to come" ) the people who lost their entire family, their home, or both, and the huge economic impact for Japan, it will take years to recover...

"More than 9,000 people have died in the disaster, thousands are injured and at least 12,000 are missing. Many people are living in evacuation centres as 14,000 homes have been destroyed and around 100,000 are damaged."

If you want to help (even if it is just a few pounds), here is the address for the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal:
http://www.redcross.org.uk/japantsunami/?approachcode=68816_googlePAD8JpTs&gclid=CKuPid236KcCFRRC4Qod91w5ag

And for those of you living in London, here is a piano concert where we will go with Yuko on the 30th of March: 100% of proceeds from tickets sales will go to the appeal. You can check it out here:
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/noriko-ogawa-special-japan-appeal-concert

Thank you very much in advance...

Philippe

More bus, underground and table corner doodles...

2011-03-23T16:58:00.006Z

Here are a few more sketches (shaded in Photoshop).
As soon as I have a bit more time, I'll post some more of these as my collection of sketchbooks start piling up :)

Tarzan...

2011-03-07T00:27:00.003Z

Those sketches were originally done in one of the tiny Moleskine sketchbooks that I carry everywhere with me. Very handy to block out some quick ideas or just sketch anything or anyone without being noticed. I probably did those ones in the tube on the Northern line.
Tarzan wasn't one of the passengers though.

Little sketches...

2010-12-18T23:08:00.008Z

I am still recovering from a cold, actually, one of the worst cold I've had in a long time. It seems that probably half the company got it too this year, thanks to our state of the art air conditioning :) ...
Anyway, thought I'd post those sketches I've done of my little Yuko a few weeks ago while at the restaurant.

Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows (part 1)

2010-12-08T23:54:00.010Z

I haven't posted much lately, so here are a few concepts I've made back at MPC nearly 2 years ago for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The first one was for Bathilda (actually "Nagini-Bathilda"). The idea was to design one of the steps of her transformation into the snake: the skin would peel off like a snake's skin and the eyes would slowly die out...
I had already left MPC (to Dneg) by the time this sequence was finalised and on screen, the transformation is actually fairly quick.
The sketches are researches for Voldemort's Horcruxes: the brief I had been given at the time was describing a less ethereal entity than the one which ended up in the movie (which I think is probably more adequate and sinister than my version).
I have done a few more concepts for this movie last year and am currently working on some more for the last episode as well a a few other projects.
Hope you guys enjoyed those pictures :)

Big horns buddy...

2010-11-07T00:59:00.005Z

Just a little "demon type creature" that I've sketched last week while pitching on a new movie for Double Negative. This sketch has absolutely nothing to do with the movie though...
I guess it's easy to get sidetracked :)
You might have noticed that the dark demon version is very painful to the eyes because of the white background but he's a demon after all, he's not meant to be nice with us poor humans with our weak little eyes.

Otagi temple...

2010-09-17T23:43:00.004+01:00

A little sketch I've done a few weeks ago during our trip to Japan.
There are 1200 small stone statues in the surrounding gardens of this temple (near Kyoto) and every single one of them has got a different face.
It is said that if you look for it, you will find your own face...

The calm before the storm...

2010-09-04T17:07:00.003+01:00

Dogo Argentino studies

2010-06-03T22:58:00.007+01:00

Here are some studies from ref that I've done a couple of months ago.
An illustration should have followed those sketches... it was part of our very organized and clever plan (at the time) with my friend Simon to make an illustration/week, but I guess we both got sidetracked because it never happened...
Maybe some time soon...

Should I also mention that this was only the third one of a list... of 100!

Oh well...

Jungle, green, mosquitos, more green... and a sword.

2010-05-30T01:34:00.002+01:00

Very busy at the moment so I only had time for a jungle doodle :)

Homage to "The Iron Giant"

2010-05-26T01:21:00.006+01:00

It wasn't originally meant to be an homage but after a few people told me "oh it's the Iron Giant isn't it?" I didn't really have a choice :)
Gotta watch it again soon!

IRON MAN 2

2010-05-20T15:05:00.024+01:00

Hi guys, I haven't posted for a while
but here are some of the concepts I've done at Double Negative vfx for the movie Iron Man 2. I had the chance to get some of my work published in "The Art of Iron Man 2" book :)
Some of them are the usual digital paintings while others are look development concepts digitally painted on top of a plate or a render to define the look of a particular shot. It is entirely done with Photoshop (apart from the sketches). I hope you guys will enjoy it and congratulations to the team at DNeg who has done such an amazing job on the very challenging "Monaco Grand Prix" sequence! ;)

Paris rooftops and... pigeons

2010-03-29T11:57:00.004+01:00

The second one of the list of 100. The next one will be: "a dog chasing a rabbit"
Only 98 to go! :)

Crows studies and African witchcraft

2010-03-29T11:19:00.002+01:00

The pirate ship and the seagulls...

2010-03-02T14:40:00.004Z

We started this list with my friends Simon and Neil the other day: it is a list of things to draw (a 100!!), a fun exercise :) The first line of the list says: "A Pirate or a Viking ship at sea" so here it is!
Only 99 more to go...

Rainy Tokyo street

2010-02-14T15:18:00.003Z

Looking back...

2010-01-21T21:40:00.003Z

New Year's Eve in Florence

2010-01-06T00:37:00.007Z

We just came back with Yuko from a few days trip to Florence for New Year's Eve: beautiful and inspiring city. Just one thing though: it's been raining almost all the time, but hey it's still better than the rain in London isn't it? :)

Sunset hunt on Zelda 6...

2009-12-08T18:19:00.005Z

Quite busy at work at the moment but here is a quick little sketch colored in Photoshop.

Apocalypse now

2009-11-04T01:25:00.002Z

Woman in the underground, Gandalf, Simon Gustafsson, Angry self portrait, and "Lone Wolf and cub" (Baby Cart).

2009-10-08T16:17:00.009+01:00

Another little Yuko doodle...

2009-08-14T14:56:00.003+01:00

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

2009-08-10T04:13:00.007+01:00

Here are a few of the look development concepts that I have done for the film G.I. Joe: rise of Cobra.
The goal of that sort of concept is to create a guide for the rest of the team allowing them to achieve the final on screen visual look for any given prop/set/creature...etc.
Here, after the diverse submarines basic 3D models had been approved by the client, my task was to make a 2D concept version of each of them which would be used as a reference in modeling/texturing/shading...
Sometimes I also had to put these same concepts in context (here under the ice Cap for example).

Harry potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009-08-01T15:22:00.014+01:00

Here are some of the sketches I've done back in 2007 for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We were pitching at MPC on the inferies sequence at the end of the movie, involving Harry and Dumbledore fighting some sort of zombies... Virginie Bourdin was Art director for our Art Dpt at the time and we worked alongside my talented friend Olivier Pron .
The idea was to show how after all these years immerged at the bottom of this cursed lake they would end up being stuck together in the most grotesque and pitiful way...
Finally this particular sequence has been granted to ILM and MPC got all the quidditch sequences which are looking very cool :)

I am now doing some concept on the next Potter, but for Double Negative VFX this time.

Hope you guys like these sketches :) anyway.

Uncovering the mysteries of my living room...

2009-07-16T23:23:00.003+01:00

Bonsai time

2009-07-15T17:24:00.002+01:00

For those of you who have no idea what a Marimo is:

Marimo (Japanese: 毬藻 marimo), also known as Cladophora ball, Lake ball, or Moss Balls in English, is a species of filamentous green algae (Chlorophyta) found in a number of lakes in the northern hemisphere. A marimo is a rare growth form of the species where the algae grow into large green balls with a velvety appearance. Colonies of such balls are known only to form in Iceland, Japan and Estonia.

It is said that taking good care of the plant will make one's wishes come true...

Bad day...

2009-07-09T12:52:00.002+01:00

Sophie's Big Adventure!

2009-06-30T14:59:00.004+01:00

A little (portrait) illustration for my lil' sister's 25th Birthday.
A bit late though, she will be 26 very soon... a year late, shame on me!!

More TV ad concepts...

2009-06-20T20:12:00.001+01:00

And some more, aiming more at the female attributes this time :)
Hope you guys like it.

Concepts for a TV ad

2009-06-20T20:03:00.002+01:00

I have done those ones while I was working at MPC (Moving Picture Company) for an "Aides explore" TV ad. Don't even know if it made it onto the television but I had a good laugh doing it :)

Yuko working late

2009-06-17T02:15:00.001+01:00

Patagonia cooking with chef Nicolas

2009-06-16T15:16:00.000+01:00

Another sketch from my trip to Patagonia with a bit of photoshop on top.
This is Nicolas Lebugle who was skipper and cook on the boat. His cooking was great and we never ate the same dish twice in 2 weeks.
He also had a thing for cakes :)
What else do you need, great trip, great people and cakes!!

2009-06-09T02:49:00.000+01:00

Very useful stuff this anatomy figure, glad I bought it :)

British museum

2009-06-03T13:27:00.000+01:00

Went to the British museum yesterday with Sam (Rowan) and Simon, a fellow concept artist from Double Negative. It was during our lunch hour so didn't have much time but I could have stayed the whole day: there are so many amazing masks and artefacts in the African section that we visited. Also check out the amazing animal sculptures in "the Americas" section.

Another sketch in St James's Park

2009-06-02T02:01:00.001+01:00

The fantastic adventures of Super PurpleGeorges!

2009-05-30T15:35:00.000+01:00

A little update on some old sketches...

A tout prix!

2009-05-26T18:38:00.000+01:00

Here is a promotional picture that I made for an old friend: Yann Danh. Not only a close friend of mine but also a very talented future film director. "A tout prix" is the title of his latest script so, fingers crossed for this one to make it onto the big screen ;)
Please don't mind the chosen font for the title, it's only temporary...

Check out his work on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/yanndanh

Messy messy...

2009-05-07T09:51:00.000+01:00

St James's Park

2009-04-27T13:54:00.000+01:00

Went to St James's Park yesterday with Yuko, nice and sunny... today it's raining.

Who's that guy in the mirror?!

2009-04-27T13:53:00.000+01:00

Self portrait...

Little Yuko...

2009-04-27T13:50:00.000+01:00

Here is a sketch of my little Yuko sleeping.

Utrillo

2009-04-27T13:46:00.000+01:00

Someone brought a magazine on the boat with an article about the painter Utrillo: this guy had such an interesting life... and face.

A day in Patagonia

2009-04-27T13:28:00.000+01:00

Just came back from an amazing 2 weeks sailing trip to Patagonia: we passed the Cape Horn!
The scenery was great, the crew was fantastic as well as the food (you wouldn't believe how much meat you can eat while on a boat :) Fantastic experience despite the bad weather: rain, hail, wind, cold, and sometimes a bit of sun.
I landed in Buenos Aires to spend a couple of days with Roland my old friend (who's been leaving there for one and a half year) and we took a flight to Ushuaia where the boat "Vaihere" was waiting for us.
I am thinking now about going to Antarctica next time...
Here is a picture of Eric the Captain who used to swear against the weather every morning.

For those who can speak french, check this out: http://www.vaihere.com/va/

In a zombie mood...

2008-03-16T02:09:00.000Z

Have seen recently the latest Romero: a bit disappointing but enjoyable to watch despite the cheesy moments and sometimes lame dialogues. probably more of a fan based movie than something which is gonna revolutionize the genre... anyway, it did put me in a zombie mood :)

Andre if you read these lines, I am looking forward to read your comic book ;)

Dom Vincenzo sent me...

2008-03-15T21:48:00.000Z

...you know why I am here don't you?

J... Johnny, is that you?

2008-03-15T21:45:00.001Z

Yuko + Laptop on a saturday morning in London...

2008-03-15T21:34:00.000Z

My little Yuko checking out some japanese cooking blogs: in Japan, blogs are more popular and mainstream than anywhere else in the world and on these cooking blogs, a few of these amateur chefs have already published a book. Another guy had his life (blogged with force details) made into a TV drama. Oh my god, I sound like a tourist guide...

Helen at work...

2008-03-15T21:31:00.000Z

Young Helen is jumping on us and starts biting if we don't respect the schedules so I thought she deserved that :)

Sam goes swimming

2008-03-15T01:48:00.000Z

Went swimming the other day with Sam and Phil during our lunch break from MPC. I recommend it, really nice to go for a swim and a sauna before going back to the dark computer room. And Sam, don't complain about the thong, I've maid you more musclely and got rid of your belly.

You're a very good swimmer though, I'll give you that.

Cherry blossom tree moment...

2008-03-13T00:54:00.000Z

Oh my god!! Could it be a magic flower?!

2008-03-13T00:50:00.000Z

In the jungle baby!

2008-03-12T19:45:00.000Z

I've got the bad habit of drawing on my notepad and couldn`t be bothered about getting rid of the lines. Any notepad full of Maya/BodyPaint/Z-brush etc pipeline related technical stuff should always include a few sketches to ease the pain.

A few colored sketches.

2008-03-12T19:43:00.000Z

Homage to Spaceman Spiff

2008-03-12T19:41:00.000Z

Had a lot of fun doing that :)

It`s raining, I`m sketching...

2008-03-12T19:39:00.000Z

Doodles doodles...

2008-03-12T19:37:00.002Z

Sketches inspired by a very cool book called `FRUITS`.

and again...

2008-03-12T19:37:00.001Z

Mr Shark`s ass crack dance

2008-03-12T19:21:00.000Z

and another one...

Mr Shark again...

2008-03-12T19:18:00.001Z

Hi guys, this is Mr Shark (noooooooo! really!? his name is Mr Shark?!!!).
He used to be the baddest dude in town, eating grannies and babies, but one day, after he has been saved by a goldfish from a certain death, he decided to fight for justice.
Following that, he tattooed the goldfish on his back (by himself, which is rather difficult) as a constant reminder of the path he had choosen... Let me tell you about the days of HIGH Adventure!!

Mr Shark (Pencil)

2008-03-12T19:17:00.001Z