DRAWING&ANIMATION TUTORIALS

I tend to make tiny little thumbnails just to get my thoughts out, before drawing them into a storyboard panel. It might not be the most effective way to do it, but it's how my brain works.

Come Along With Me second thumbnail storyboard pitch by writer/storyboard artist Steve Wolfhard

Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake - key art

From the episodes Mr. Softball, Cosmic Bupkis, Catacombs, and Tub on the Run

Dear all. Four years ago I had a chance to get back in touch with Sergio Pablos regarding his feature film project Klaus. By this time I’ve been away from animation for a little while and I cannot hide that I was fairly interested in joining the production. Then eventually Sergio offered me a supervision role for the main character Jesper. I had to think a lot about it and for reasons that remains strictly personnal I had to decline this role. In my sense it was for the best as my good friend and animation supervisor Yoshimichi Tamura ended up to take this supervision role. Yoshi and Sergio used to be colleagues at the Walt Disney Feature Animation department in Paris back in the nineties, their credit includes : A Goofy Movie, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Hercules, Tarzan, Atlantis and Treasure Planet, to name a few. Given Yoshi’s experience, Jesper was in good hands. Later on, I was happy to finally join the production in early 2018 as the animation production was ramping up. Seeing the team building up weeks after weeks, learning to know each other will remain an unforgetable experience to me.

Here is a piece of sequence that I was honored to animate. Jesper is back to Klaus’s area to suggest him this partnership. Storyboards were terific and altought they brougt up some good storytelling input, sometimes it could take a few rough passes before meeting Sergio’s sensibility and accuracy in terms of acting.

some designs i did for a game idea! i like to pitch it as “alice in wonderland x streetfighter x just dance”

Earlier this year I worked with Studio Meala on a music video for The Living Tombstone’s Sunburn. Most of the animation is on 3s and 4s (instead of the typical 2s) for that vintage anime feel. It’s always a nice challenge to work on that rate, since you have to think a a lot about how to keep your animation lively without seeming too slow.

Extra kudos to the clean-up artists because that linework is great.

Directed by Sean Cunnigham.

A little something that can help if you want to animate tails waving ^^ 

More tutorials on my Patreon (most are free, it’s just easier for me to post there since l post so much online, it’s flooded away!)