A love letter to animation

Animation is celebrated each year by the lake in the French city of Annecy. Each edition is invigorating. So many passion driven individuals should they be newcomers or patrons, meet during a summery week in June. There are a variety of ways to experience the festival: as a volunteer (with the benefit …

Invited to draw!

The “sketchbook project” is an invitation sent out to anyone willing to contribute drawings to a universal library of sketchbook gathered by the organisation bearing the same name. How does it work? The participant after registering online will receive an empty sketchbook on which to draw. He/She will then send …

A producer? What for?

“Producers are useless these days.” You can do without them, finding money through crowdfunding and distributing through the Internet. To an extent it is true. It is now possible to create audiovisual projects without the help of traditional channels (film institutes, TV channels, theatres) that the producers are masters of. …

Cinema and theme parks

Out of curiosity I started looking up theme parks with attractions related to the movies. Of course Disney ranks first and all the more after acquiring Lucas Film, which will brought to their current catalog of potential rides Star Wars and Indiana Jones. In 2015 a new ride featuring Avatar …

From manuscript to book

After attending a workshop on book publishing by Michael Katz, Tradewinds, I wanted to visually represent the different players in that industry and the whole process behind any picture book hold by kids.