Homage to "The Iron Giant"

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

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

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

The pirate ship and the seagulls...

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

Looking back...

New Year's Eve in Florence

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...

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

Apocalypse now

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

Another little Yuko doodle...

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

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

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...

Bonsai time

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...