Summer

Here is my contribution for the salle polyvalente, the theme was "summer".
And here I am, as a stunt man facing the danger.

Le Chat

Here is the spot we've directed Celine & I, and here are also some stills we've made during the pitch.

THE WALL

Here is our collaboration as character design for the last Patrick Jean's commercial.

quick news and stuff

Just a tiny post to say that we're glad that WWF is on the n°79 of Stash, always a good news to be a part of it.

Beside, the Giants are selected to the SICAF at Seoul.
It's great to see that the Giants are moving abroad :)
It was driving them crazy to stay in my tiny room.

If you're in Brooklyn around the 20th of may, you can see the Giants at the Rooftop Films Festival.
I would love to be there.

NEW GIANT EPISODE CLOUD

The Giant story is still on its way.
In this epsiode, a lonely cloud goes to the beach to get a sunbath....
Special Big thanks again to David Kamp for the wonderful sound!
The 3 episodes will be shown at Pictoplasma this april, so come along if you want to see it on the big screen.

L'histoire des Geants continue.
Dans ce nouvel episode, un nuage solitaire part affiner son bronzage a la plage...
Big up a David Kamp pour son super travail sur le son!
Les 3 episodes seront projette a Pictoplasma. Rejoignez nous la bas pour le voir sur grand ecran.

Giant online

All the Giants are now gathered on a brand new website, fully internet and worldwide.
2 news episodes will be released very soon, check here to be up to date.

http://the-giants.com/

So 2011!

Here are some test we've been working on lately.
The goal was to be french and 2011...so one of the character has a moustache.

Voici quelques images d'un récent pitch.
L'objectif était de representer les francais de maniere moderne,de maniere 2011.

ABYSS project

Here are some sketches for a new project I'm working on with my friend Severin Labit.
We're still at an early early stage, but here are a couple of pictures of what it might look like at the end...hopefully...

Voici quelque d'images d'un projet sur lequel je travaille avec un pote Severin Labit.
Dans l'idee ca devrait ressembler a ca...

Dear Hot Chocolate

We've had the pleasure of meeting Guillermo from the "atractivoquenobello"team, in a cold evening, having a cup of hot chocolate to try to warm us up.
We want to thanks him for the interview and invite you all to check their website, filled up with plenty of good news.

Click here for the interview.

Nous avons eu le plaisir de rencontrer Guillermo de l'équipe "atractivoquenobello", avec qui nous avons partage les senteurs d'un chocolat chaud pour nous rechauffer nos mains et museau.
Un grand merci a lui pour l'interview. On vous invite a passer par leur site pour trouver plein d'articles interessants, dont le notre..waou.

Cliquez ici pour l'interview.

Happy new year to you all

The new 2011 calendar from Chez Eddy is out !!!
We've been asked to share this calendar with Mat&FX.
And given that 2011 is closer to the future, we decided to go for a old 3D anaglyph style.
At the top of the picture, it's written :
" The Giant is dressed up to the two thousand nines "

Bonne annee à tous!!
Le tout nouveau calendrier 2011 de Chez Eddy est fini .
Nous avons partage le calendrier en avec Mat&FX.
2011 est bien plus proche du futur, du coup nous avons decidé de faire une illusration en 3D anaglyphe, comme dans les livres quand on était gamin.
Vous savez bien, ceux avec des posters de dinosaures en 3D.


Click on the picture to taste the high res picture.
Here is a close up, for you to check at home with your 3D glasses.
Avatar 3D was so 2010, here is 2011!

Giant Episode 2 Sun

The second episode of the Giant's Serie is finally finished!



As we said before, each episode will have a different Giant. This one is the story of "The Giant Sun" and his lost ray beam.
The idea is to travel through the world of the Giant and discover the untold truth about them and their conflicts with the human being.
You can discover below some pictures of the (futur) others Giants.

Special Big thanks to David Kamp for his great sound ;)
And also big thanks to Passion Pictures people, who give us a good and warm place to work on our personal projects, with a proper desk... niceee!

Those 2 first episodes were autoproduced, we would love to keep on creating episodes. We're looking for someone who could help us on producing it. "We need you!" to keep on telling their stories.

Voila le deuxieme episode du projet de serie TV Giant.

Comme nous l'avons déjà expliqué dans un post précédent, chaque épisode raconte les aventures d'un géant différent. Celui ci est basé sur le Géant Soleil qui vient de perdre son rayon de soleil au milieu d'un ville d'humains.
L'idée est de suivre tous ces géants et ainsi decouvrir leur face caché, car ils ne sont pas si terrifiants qu'il n'y parait.
En vrac différents designs des eventuels prochains géant.

Grand merci a David Kamp pour son super travail sur le sound design!
Et aussi un gros merci aux gens de Passion Pictures pour nous avoir preté ce joli bureau pour nous permettre de travailler sur nos projets perso.

Ces 2 premiers episodes ont ete autoproduit, on a d'autres histoires sous le coude, tout chaud, tout beau, du coup on recherches des gens pour nous aider a produire cette serie et continuer cette aventure de géant. "We need you!"

Aer Lingus

We're happy to present our first project directed at Passion.
It's a small animation for a irish airplane compagny.
This adv will be aired more or less 9 days...
A special thx for Rick and Guillaume for helping us in the last moment of panic.

Avec Celine on est bien content de pouvoir presenter notre premier projet qu'on a remporte avec Passion.
Une petite anim pour une compagnie aerienne irlandaise.
Elle sera diffuse environ 9 jours...
Un grand merci a Rick et Guillaume pour nous avoir aide dans notre dernier moment de panique.

Giant First episode

Here's a project I've been working on for quite a while, but now the first episode is completed.
This serie project is called Giant.
Each episode will have a different Giant.
The idea is to travel through the world of the Giant and discover the untold truth about them and their conflicts with the human being.

A big Thanks to David Kamp who create a weird and unique sound design.
Go check his works on his website.
davidkamp.de/

Special thanks to Celine Desrumaux and Severin Labit for their advices and precious help.

Other episodes will come soon, here is a preview of the characters who'll appear in the next episode...


Voici le premier episode d'un projet que je tenais sous le coude depuis un bout de temps.
La serie s'intitule Giant.
Comme son nom l'indique, il s'agit d'une serie sur les Geants.
Chaque episode sera base sur un Geant different, et nous decouvrirons leur face cache, et leurs nombreux conflicts avec les humains qui les entourent.

Un grand merci a David Kamp pour son super travail sur le son, c'est unique et super intriguant.
Je vous conseille le coup d'oeil sur son site.
davidkamp.de/

Un autre grand merci a Celine Desrumaux et Severin Labit pour leurs conseils precieux.

D'autres episodes sont a venir, l'image montre les prochains personnages...doucement mais surement.

Pitch Chez Eddy

Here are some still from a pitch for Chez Eddy made with Celine.
Unfortunatly, this project won't be for us, they changed their mind and went for a live action title... arrgh


Voici les images d'un pitch pour un docmentaire avec Chez eddy concu avec Celine, malheureusement pour nous, ils on opté pour une version live action.
C'est con, on aurait pu se faire bien plaisir...j'ai des ampoules a force de croiser les doigts.

Joe Dassin

Here is our firt pitch with Celine at Passion Pictures.
We didn't get it, but we're glad to have worked on that because of the creative freedom we had,
I guess it won't happen all the time.
We had to do a storyboard, styleframes and also a small animation test.
The references were based on Saul Bass and the opening credits of Catch me if you can, a good starting point.
Here are some pictures, there are others on Celine's blog.

Voici notre premier picth avec Celine pour Passion Pictures.
Ce projet ne pas le jour, malheureusement pour nous, mais on a pu s'eclater dessus.
Le pitch contenait un storyboard, des styleframes et un test d'animation. (qui represente deja une bonne partie de ce qu'aurais du etre le projet complet)
Saul Bass et le generique d'ouvertures de Catch me if you can etaient les references à utiliser, plutot agreable de travailler dans cette direction.
Des images en plus sur le blog de Celine.

Pitch Passion from Benedi yann on Vimeo.

Bandana Midnight

Me revoila avec quelques news.

On a cree un blog pour notre duo de real avec Celine.

http://www.celineyann.blogspot.com/

On va tenter de remplir ca du mieux qu'on peut.

Nous sommes sur le site de Passion Pictures Londre dans la categories One To Watch.

Sinon, nous serons au festival Pictoplasma a Berlin le week end du 10 avril.

Notre court metrage La chaussetteologie y sera projete.

Voici le dernier clip Style de Gorillaz, on a travaille dessus, ca fait plaisir que tout ca soit fini.

Quel bandana...!!

Et le clip pour Sebastien Tellier est ENFIN sorti.

J'ai travailler sur la transition combinaison en squelette, ainsi que la disparation finale en boolean.

Long time no see, so here are some fresh news.

Here is a blog for our duo with Celine as directors:

http://www.celineyann.blogspot.com/

We'll try to feed this site as much as we can.

We're now on the One To Watch on the website of Passion Pictures London.

One other good new, we'll also be at Pictoplasma Festival at Berlin on 9-10 April, with our short movie La chaussettologie.

We recently finished our work on the Gorillaz Stylo Video clip, love that bandana, love midnight. Here is the trailer:

And there is also a video for Sebastien Tellier on which I worked.

I focus on the transition between the leather suit and the skeleton, and when the body disapear at the end.

HP

Celine et moi avons travaille sur les key designs de la derniere pub HP de Smith & Foulkes a Nexus.
Une evolution du numerique a un monde en papier.
Un projet vraiment interessant a designer,tellement qu'on aurait aime pouvoir se
pencher encore plus dessus pour enrichir cet univers.
Dommage qu'on ne sente plus cette idee de transition dans le resultat final.
Vous pouvez voir les recherches de Celine sur son blog.

Celine and I worked on the key design for the last HP ad of Smith & Foulkes for Nexus.
It's all about a journey from numeric to a paper world.
It was so much fun working on this project, that we wish we had more time
to work on it and developt it, there are so much things that could have been done.
That's sad that we don't really undestand this transition in the final result.
You can check Celine's designs on her blog.