Laulabey

Character Animator & Visual Development Artist. Portfolio

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First gouache I did last Winter for two dear friends of mine.

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Person to Person

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The Milk and Honey Route

Major spoiler ahead : rewatching her struggling with the stairs is a very painful moment. Bye Bye Birdie.

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Here is some visual development for an upcoming short with Nicolas Wax. I won't say more about it. Stay tuned.

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Night vision

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Merry Christmas

         Après quelques vaines tentatives un cliquetis se fit entendre. Le système céda. J’ouvris lentement la porte au verre dépoli tout en m’assurant de glisser une main sous ma veste.

         Je pénétrais dans le vestibule miteux où la poussière recouvrait la plupart des objets hormis quelques étagères fraichement vidées. Mes yeux mirent un temps à s’adapter à la pièce trop éclairée. Un air entrainant me parvint aux oreilles par l’entrebâillement de la seconde porte qui me faisait face. « Sing, Sing, Sing ».

         Ma main recouvrit la poignée, mes sens toujours en alerte. Je n’avais que trop vécu de pareilles situations. J’ouvris avec force la seconde porte. Ce geste fut cependant brusquement interrompu, la porte butta mollement sur quelque chose au sol. Je forçais un peu plus et me faufila dans la seconde pièce beaucoup plus sombre.

         Des valises entrouvertes jonchaient le parquet de bois usé. De nombreuses affaires jetées hâtivement les recouvraient. Plus loin c’était autre chose qui recouvrait le sol. Au pied d’une table de bois massif que rien ne semblait pouvoir ébranler, une fine flaque composée à la fois de vin et de sang semblait vouloir s’étendre paisiblement le long des rainures du parquet. Parcourant de mes yeux la tâche écarlate, mon regard s’arrêta sur un corps qui, quelques minutes auparavant, bougeait encore. La profonde entaille sous la pomme d’Adam m’épargna une vérification inutile. La tête formait un angle bizarre, appuyée contre les pieds d’un guéridon sur lequel était posé une bouteille ouverte. A ses côtés se trouvait une carte dorée qui semblait briller d’elle-même dans la noirceur de la pièce, et sur laquelle était maladroitement écrit « Joyeux Noël ».

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1969 - Short movie on hiatus.

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To tell more about the short movie’s production, I had the idea of it last year, wanting to do a film inspired by 50’s and 60’s cartoon designs, but all in 3D. A sort of tribute to this creative era.

At the beginning the project was more simple, quite abstract, heavily based on forms and colors without any proper rig (I’m not particularly fond of setup and rigging…). At that time, I had the 1957 short “Flebus” on my mind and already found a solution to make it look like 50’s 2D designs.

Then two friends of mine, Amandine Durand and Brice Jolbit joined its production and the project visually gained in complexity. After last year’s summer break and two months working on it, Brice Jolbit and I decided to continue its production throughout our senior year at school. It took more time than we thought to complete it and polish it a bit, but we eventually managed to do it.

The whole movie is made in CG (created with Maya), only few details (some transparent items, all the characters except the main one) are done in 2D.

As regards my work on it, I was a kind of creative director, working on a great part of the writing, designs, modeling. Specifically, I did all the interiors (except the bedroom), partially worked on the exteriors, on the main character and on the other ones. I’m responsible for the colors, the rendering and the final look of the film. I also did half of the animations. It was time consuming but I hope you enjoy it!

Above is a selection of my work.

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I’m happy to say we finally finished the short movie we were working on alongside our individual film projects! Here we go!

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I'm polishing the last bits of a short movie project I started last year with two friends of mine. I'm anxious to share it with you and everyone who will come across it! Stay tuned.

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Another test for my short!

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Another character research for my short, closer to the final designs.

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I had once again the great opportunity to team up with Khurt recently. Here is the cover art I did for his new song We Want. Don't hesitate in supporting him through iTunes or here (available worldwide)!

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Still working on my own project. Apologize for the LQ.

And a Merry Xmas to you all.