Even if my blog is broken on some browsers, it is still functionnal enough to welcome a showreel update as I am currently looking for work in Animated Features or Premium teenage and up TV series! Featured are Animated Feature and animated TV work from “Miraculous Ladybug”, Netflix’s “My dad the bounty hunter”, some extracts from 2021 Sundance short film winner “Souvenir souvenir”, various fun quick shots from preschool TV shows and few shots from DNEG’s TV special “Fungus the bogey man”. Quota ranged from 3 seconds a week on “Ladybug”, 5 seconds a day on “My dad the bounty hunter” and 8 seco ..read more

It appears I never mentioned this incredible show I had the immense pleasure of being part of last year at Dwarf Animation in Montpellier! The show just released few days ago and is already topping the charts!!! If you haven’t checked out the show on Netflix yet, here is a trailer in the meantime and I will update this post once I have a bit more time with plenty of links to the work of all the great artists that were part of the project. They were numerous! Netflix allowed us to make a kick ass show and it is amazing to see that they are also all-in with the marketing of “My dad” despite our ..read more

Being a bit more fluent with DaVinci Resolve, I was a bit more creative with that one :-) I hope you like it, it was a lot of fun to make! Credits to all the people featured, it is all for educational purposes under fair use restrictions. Featured in the video are : https://vimeo.com/benjaminwillis https://twitter.com/alwanneroy and https://www.instagram.com/bbrunoliveira ..read more

Tip #04 for my Maya Free Tricks series. “Selections sets” a Production shots case study. As an animator, your role is to create memorable shots from scratch but sometimes, you might be asked to take over someone else’s shot which can lead to a bunch or surprises. Here are are series of tricks to get out of tricky situations ..read more

New week, new Tip #03 for my Maya Free Tricks series: “The Power of Alembics” with a new animated intro and music. Follow the hashtag #freeMayaTipswithMoustache on Linkedin to stay updated and don’t hesitate to share. If you don’t happen to work at a top feature studio, it is quite unlikely your rigs are fully compatible with Maya’s Cache Playback or Parallel evaluation so working on shots with several characters can be extremely painful and slow, unless you know about Geometry Caches and Alembic caches for example. Here is the link to my GitHub profile page and GPU generator script ..read more

Second tip of my Maya Free Tricks series, follow the hashtag #freeMayaTipswithMoustache to stay updated and don’t hesitate to share. It is quite unlikely your character would need to perform a Wai Khru but most likely your character would need to act while kneeling and this can seem very tricky at first if you want to get clean arcs on your pelvis ..read more

First tip of my Maya Free Tricks series. I am not exactly sure what format those tips will be in but today it is a video as it is a simple trick for situations where you find a stray key in the graph editor. Additional info I will add to the video on the next update. if you want to isolate the annoying control, copy and paste the name of the control after the following Mel command. This will select the offending control. select -r Keep an eye on this space for more basic to advanced animation tips or follow the hashtag ##freemayatipswithmoustache on LinkedIn ..read more

I am about to launch a series of tips and tricks for Autodesk’s Maya animators covering things that are probably not known by new or non-technical users. With close to 15 years of experience in Maya as animator, modeler, character TD and possibly TD, I have acquired a vast amount of knowledge that could help non-technical animators to optimise their animation work and better understand the intricacies of CG animation ..read more

I am one of those art snobs whose goal is nothing less than to be able to draw like the late Kim Jung Gi and only rely on my imagination to create work. It doesn’t have to be that way! If like me, you are only at the start of your artistic journey, this mindset can hinder your efforts and be detrimental to your progress. We take for granted that all the best work is created from imagination and undermine how much research and references can participate to the creation of the most exciting artwork. Kim Jung Gi himself was not creating art out a vacuum, instead he was digging into a mental lib ..read more

I came across Electric dragon505 AKA AniMat’s Youtube channel a while back while looking for Disney documentaries and immediately subscribed after watching his monumental 11h31 Disney History masterpiece video essay! AniMat is very knowledgeable and also a great watch for his regular no-hold barred Animated Features reviews with which I tend to agree. Today I just wanted to single out his 5 years old Top 10 Animation documentaries. There is a possibility it would be a bit too Disney centric but at least he is mentionning some documentaries that are a must have for Feature Animation lovers. P ..read more