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Who am I ? My work, my motivations
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I
am a graphic designer. I made my studies at the ESRA Nice, a school
divided into 3 sections: Cinema, computer graphics and sound. Having
failed the entry drawing contest of the school, I nevertheless proved
my qualities and desire in the field of computer graphics and my
interest in traditional cinema. Therefore I was accepted in the
cinema section with the possibility of following on the side the
courses of the Supinfograph (computer graphics) for the first year. On
that basis, I very quickly wove links with the students of the other
sections of the school and in particular with those of the cinema
section with whom I collaborated later, once I had passed in
Supinfograh section for my second and third year.
The result of my various collaborations can be seen in the digital graphics section of this website.
If CG (computer graphics) is an art which has
suddenly prevailed, not to say cannibalised, most of visual media, it
actually represents only the surface of things. It’s the paper we
use to wrap our gifts to highlight the surprise. Unfortunately, today,
it seems that much of the computer effects we see in movies become the
gift, the surface is now the surprise and once we open the gift their
is nothing inside, or so little... This is why if CG art makes me dream
and wonder each time, I don’t forget that it has to be justified.
It must have a reason to be, other than itself. This is why
everytime I’m working on a project, I choose those that fully
justify the use of it and go right to the goal, serving a speech, a
matter, an idea, but never in a way of hiding the misery of an industry
to the service of its own existence.
It’s also the reason why I am interested in many other subjects than CG and entertainment.
When I was young and someone came with that
question: "What do you want to do later in your life", I tended to
answer : « volcanologist ». You may think the gap between
volcanology and CG is wide …. from my point of view and as
far as i am concerned, not that much. ... Volcanos are among the most
imposing demonstrations and the strongest visually and emotionaly
speaking expressions of activity on earth. The science and the reality
of the world in which we live and which is ruled by a certain number of
laws, governing our evolution since millenia, astonish me every time. I
was fascinated by the programs presented by Haroun Tazieff or by the
couple Katia and Maurice Kraft, famous geologists and volcanologists.
What moved me away from this path was that the final result of all this
work wouldn't have had much effects on our daylife. It is also
the distance from the ground, from nature and the fact that this work
usually leeds to offices and laboratories that quickly made me lose my
interest in those studies. Anyway, i kept my passion for
volcanology and all kind of natural and scientific phenomenon.
Finally it made me stay on the surface since i now
work on trying to create the same visual and emotional feelings through
computers and digital effects. But on the side, I still keep my foot to the ground by trying to understand the
world we live in, the comprehension of what we are, the way the world goes, the
problems of our society and of the social consequences, that are as many
subjects of first importance. They explain the existence of media
and the need to informe, to communicate but also to divert us. Thus the
fights which are carried out each day by those who, pushed in their
last frontier, do not have any other means to express themselves,
challenge me.
I like photo-reporter for their capacity to capture
the magical moment, the one where all the aspects of a question are
joined together to reveal the reality of a situation.
I like documentaries for the will of analysis,
explanation and argumentation of subjects which in final always return
to that same question : who are we ?
Because they are at the same time the twin brothers
of the media entertainment on the form, but opposed in the content and
the engagement of their creators.
Between the dream in front of an illusion and the
nightmare in front of the rough reality, there are those who make
possible their diffusions and their comprehensions. I am, or rather I
would like to be in between, knowing that it is by the domestication of
these two oppositions that one advances. Surface without content is not
interesting, and if it is true it catches the eyes at first glance, it
does not give us anything concrete and in final causes disinterest. On
the contrary, content on itself has so much to give us that it can
sometimes be frightening and make its acceptance very difficult. Then
it becomes impossible to share. It will be simply rejected because we
are not ready, as spectators to call ourself into question. Of these
two extremes, between futility and gravity, exists a fine border. It is
it which guides my choices and my work. Like a sinner, between the
juicy maggot which will attract a fish and the cruel reality of the
hook hidden below. I am from those fishermen who will release the fish,
hoping he will have learned from its experiment and that the next time,
maybe, he won’t bite to the hook anymore...
This ambivalence is often formulated under a
question which one hears frequently asked to the directors,
documentarists, photographers but also to all the artists who use their
art in an engaged and militant way : "Do you think your work can change
the spectators, the opinion... the world?". Some will answer "Yes",
others "No", and some others won’t have any opinion because they
do simply what they think is right to do according to the "chance" they
have to be able to express themselves in front of an audience, hoping
without believing too much. The answer is at the same time Yes and No.
YES, because it’s an element that allows us,
men and women to know and understand. Yes because it is the proof that
we won’t be able to deny and say : "I did not know" when the time
as come to look back in the past. Yes finally, because
if the work which one carries out is sufficiently meaningfull then it
can give the desire and energy necessary for others to grow, to build
themselves, and possibly then to become those futur actors of the
transformation of the world.
NO, because society is in a perfect inertia. It
would be like splitting an ocean with a sword, the ocean will not move
but the sword will immediately be covered at once. To believe that a
film, a documentary or a photo can change a situation or change people
and citizens mind like magic is from my point of view a pure illusion.
Very often, the success of a project is the proof that the
message contained in it already existed in the spectators minds, and
that they only needed to be confirmed in their belief. The success is
explained not because there is a horse to draw the spectators, but very
often because it is the plough the spectators are ready to highlight.
Without, and that beats everything, changing anything from our choices of existences and relationship to others.
As an end it’s a question of what role we want
to play, which as far as I am concerned, is to believe and make people
believe that tomorrow shall be a better day… without forgetting
that it is by knowing and understanding from the past, and from the
present that we can build our futur.
It is mainly by learning from reality that our
dreams can be concretized, and the existence of the second is only
possible because there is a first one to exceed.
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----------------------------------------------- Work Experience -----------------------------------------------
2001 to 2004 - I Created pakshots, and all kind of effects for ESRA projects. You can find many of them and more in my digital effects section HERE :
- 2001 : - "Au
fond du puit"
- 2003 :
- "Belzébuth"
- "ESRA
Supinfograph" logo
- "Rubicks
Cube credit Title
- "Quelque
part prés d'ici"
- ...
- 2004 :
- "Pauline et Arthur"
- "INPACT" logo
- "AFP" logo
- "Elles" A
Friend third year short film
- "Aids" a commercial for the AIDS campaign.
- ...
2002 à 2005 - I created several 3D and layers effects for the company "Le phare productions" in the
Victorine in Nice.
2004
- I participated by creating the fully CG entering sequence of the
pilot episod called "Pauline and Arthur" directed by Ingrid
Duprat. You can see my work in the digital Effet section HERE
2005- I created some designs for the POLARIS Communications company.
2006 -
GI's Joke receive's the animation prize at the short film festival of Lille. See it also in my Digital Effects section, HERE
2006 - I write an article about "Critics of Media" every week of about 3000 characters in Nice local newspaper "Le patriote". It's only in French but you can read them on my blog HERE
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----------------------------------------------- Studies and Diplomas -----------------------------------------------
1999 - I Finished the general course of my studies and got my Baccalauréat (A-level) in Science.
1999
to 2000 - I spent one year at University, studying Science (Biology and
Geology) at the science university of Valrose in Nice.
2000 to 2003 - Studies at the superior school of audiovisual studies (ESRA) on the Cote d'Azur, in Nice.
- During the 1rst year I studied cinema and 16mm shooting. My work
was director of photography on the project we had to achieve, called :
Au fond du puit (Down in the well)
- During the second and third year I went in the Supinfograph section
learning Maya, Fusion, and Combustion for Aimation and Digital effects,
and I worked there on two short films : Trombstone & Infinity, but
also helped some students from the cinema section to make effects and
do titles in their own projects like the Belzebuth commercial or
Rubicks Cube credit title and more ...
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