Luca and Lightyear showreels

It's never too late to put together a show reel of the shots one animated on a movie, right? Here are some montages of shots that I animated on Luca and Lightyear. I had so much fun on Luca, though I didn't work on it for very long. I joined Lightyear early to help out on pre-production where we sure characters can move properly and much more. It was my first time doing character development on a show at Pixar and loved it. As an introduction to the process, I worked mostly on tertiary and background characters, one of which I ended up animating the handful of shots she was in (the red-head character with glasses sipping her coffee). 

Il n'est jamais trop tard pour monter un "show reel" des scènes qu'on a animées sur un film, n'est-ce pas?  Voici des montages des scènes sur lesquelles j'ai travaillé pour les films Luca et Lightyear. J'ai eu un énorme plaisir sur Luca, mais ce fut court. J'ai joint l'équipe de Lightyear assez tôt pour participer à la pré-production où on s'assure que les personnages bougent selon les besoins du film. J'ai adoré mon expérience. Comme c'était surtout une introduction au processus, j'ai travaillé surtout sur des personnages tertiares et figurants. L'un d'eux apparaît dans quelques scènes et je me suis occupée de l'animer partout. (C'est le personnage roux avec des lunettes qui boit son café). 

Emilie's Luca show reel

Emilie's Lightyear show reel 

Goodbye uncle Paul

 It had been a while since I last saw uncle Paul before he passed away last week. I heard from him from my father who is always keeping everyone posted on what is going on in the family. News like these inevitably make you stop and think about the people you love and what makes life so precious. I have a feeling that Paul was tapping into that when he hit the slopes. Wherever he is today, there is no doubt that he is still skiing.  

Self portrait 2023

 I have been updating this drawing every New Year, but I was busy with other things during the holidays. I did take the picture I used as reference a few days before January 1st which may explain the self-reflective-lost-in-thoughts gaze. (That's the impression I got after stepping back from the drawing.) I'm fine, I promise! Just a little more grey hair and all the things that go with more years in this life! 💙

Pasta!

I have been working on this comic for months. Between crunch time at work and many things in life I had to deal with, it has been a more challenging one to finish. Perhaps it also has to do with me trying to tell the same story in a clearer and hopefully better way? Summer 2020 was such a strange one and my older self kept coming back in my memories. I think my subconscious was telling me to take care of myself during the crisis. I remembered a time when restricting was my way of  expressing some sort of self-defense against things I didn't have control on. These comics remain an experiment and I try to learn something from making them. I hope you enjoy reading them too. 

Illustration of Julie

 I haven't posted here in a long time, so an illustration is overdue! Here is a fun illustration I did a few weeks ago of the amazing Julie Artacho, amazing photographer and always inspiring human being.