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_9 books of the series, with title artworks and publisher logo._
The "Club of Magic Horses" ( french name "Le club des chevaux magiques" ) is a french saga of books for young ladies written by [Loic Léo](http://loicleborgne.over-blog.com/ "Loic Léo" ) and published by [Gründ](http://www.grund.fr/ "Gründ" ) Publishing in France.
I work as a cover artist , but also I'm drawing inner illustrations, maps, and started threw the cover to design visually more and more an original universe. The saga is composed now of 12 books.
Here under are some of the illustration without the titles.
The four main characters
Books can be purchased on all the bookstores.
Official website :
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Dominance War 5 ( ) is the international challenge for game artist across the world : an impressive number of the main forum around the world propose to their user to partipate to a global challenge. The aim is simple, create the best game art on a common fictive game rule. This year the contest start with a mini challenge in 3D and 2D ; here I participate to the 2D one with Mypaint and Gimp-painter.
2D artist ( in a nuts shell, the rule is too long to explain it here ) had to create a picture with 2 characters inspired by text in the rules. The guideline were enough large to lets every artist do almost what they wanted in the style they want. Thousand of excellent participations from excellent artists this year ! My final picture is under ; I also posted speedpaintings and WIP picture.
Thanks to the help of my friends users on 3DVF ; interraction with other artist is always benefit. Link to the thread on 3DVF ( French )
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_The video is speeded up to 16X to make this conference of one hour compressed into 3:55 minutes._
Last 2010 Blender Conference, [Andy Goralczyk](http://www.artificial3d.com/) & I collaborate on a "1 hour" public made piece of artwork together. That was a good moment and I thank a lot Andy to had share this moment with me around this picture.
Andy created the initial concept in Blender, and I added the final touches in Gimp, MyPaint and Alchemy.
Thanks a lot to [Andrew Price](http://vimeo.com/user628354) from BlenderGuru for recording this video and sharing it with a beautifull editing on internet. See more videos and photos presentations [on BlenderGuru](http://www.blenderguru.com/9-videos-from-the-2010-blender-conference/) or on my [previous blog post](http://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?article47/)
Music: Mirwais - Disco Science
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'Ella' is my last personnal illustration at this half of November 2010. I wanted for the theme to mix concept-art and an illustrated posed character. I wanted a fresh picture, with bright colors. I designed her as a probable female main characters for a fictive rpg games.
During making it, I was surprised to see how detailing killed some part of the picture, and making it more flat and lifeless. That's why I decided ( with the help of pretty good advices ) to let some area at a speedpainting step. I also like to show the digital painting media at a rought stage, with all this overlays of brush stroke. This made the hair looks lighter, the materials more rigid and the focus more on her detailed face.
The final picture is a bit higher than 5K pixel, and was done only with Gimp-painter. I switched before to Mypaint very often to have access to performance, but with last computer ; a surboosted Dell with an i-core7 processor ; the painting speed is ok with Gimp-painter.So, I can use it from the start to the end on a HD picture. This is a good step of comfort for my open-source professional workflow
## Close-up
The picture under reveal zoomed parts of the picture to give you an idea of the rendering in HD. ( note: a bigger size of the picture is posted on my portfolio.)
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Sintel, the full short. High res 1080p available on the youtube option.
## About
Sintel is an open short movie produced by the [Blender Foundation](http://www.blender.org/ "blender" ). I worked on it as an **Art Director** from February 2009 to September 2010. Official website [www.sintel.org](http://www.sintel.org/ "Sintel" ).
Description from the official website :
> "Sintel" is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. With initial funding provided by 1000s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3D technology as for independent animation film. This 15 minute film has been realized in the studio of the Amsterdam Blender Institute, by an international team of artists and developers. In addition to that, several crucial technical and creative targets have been realized online, by developers and artists and teams all over the world.."
## Art direction
Many concept-art and artworks were necessary to capture the epic and fantasy feeling I wanted for Sintel. Here is a sample of the one remaining in the movie.
My tools were Gimp-painter 2.6 and Mypaint 0.6 on Linux Mint 7 Gnome 2.0.
_Shaman_
_Sintel design_
_More design for Sintel_
_model-sheet_
_Sintel portrait_
_Sintel (old) portrait_
_Chicken , ballpen quick concept_
_Hienna, creature on her journey_
_Ishtar birds_
_Snow fighting previsualisation. On the original script ; four guardians were waiting for her_
_Shaman hut, external design_
_Shaman hut, interior_
_Shaman hut, previsualisation for the ambiance_
_Sintel , in Ishtar city, watching the Ziggurat_
_Ishtar city ; building renovations, and various overlays of architectures era_
_Ishtar building design_
_Ishtar alley , design for the first scene. Top view was choosen to show the spacial distance of elements. Grid and dirty waters of Ishtar were removed for technical reason._
_Sintel bedroom ; first concept_
_Sintel Bedroom ; detailed concept at night_
_Concept for an Ishtar street with markets_
_Color previsualisation for the 'chicken hunt' scene_
_Concept of the Ziggurat main city abandonned temple_
_One of the first early illustration artwork of Sintel ; showing the key story elements_
_large mate painting ( in the movie , used on background when Sintel is on the top of Ziggurat )_
_Ishtar city doors_
_Previsualisation of the bamboo forest , a step of her journey_
_Concept for the dragon cave_
_Concept for the dragon cave_
_Concept for the dragon cave_
_Concept for the dragon cave_
_Concept for Ishtar poeples_
_Concept for Ishtar poeples_
_Concept for Ishtar poeples_
_Concept for Ishtar poeples_
_model sheet of the dragon_
_Concept for the dragon_
_Concept for Scale , baby_
_Previsualisation of Scale , Baby_
_Scale ; more research_
_relation size between adult and baby dragon_
_Various speed rough done in production to communicate with the team_
_Concept for guardians weapons_
_Shaman accessories , details_
_Sintel knife_
_Ishtar flags , illustrating old religion wars, design_
## Interview
[Alexandre Prokoudine](http://prokoudine.info/ "Alexandre Prokoudine website" ) interviewed me on his website [Libre Graphic World](http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=25 "Interview Sintel" ) about Sintel. [You can read the interview here.](http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=25 "Interview Sintel" )
## More on the DVD
All the source of the project are available on the Blender e-shop . You'll find on the 4 DVDs hi-res artworks, work-in-progress, and more.
_Here is a preview of the DVD-Rom gallerie , with unused artwork_
_Here is a preview of VIP in the DVD-Rom , showing how artworks where made._
_Storyboarding, colorboard, and other tools_
[Buy Sintel on the Blender E-shop](http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=120)
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_Chaos & Evolutions DVD for Youtube: 1h30 video tutorials._
[info]A couple of year after the release of the DvD, I took all the video of the DVD and compressed them into a 1h30 video. I posted this one on Youtube, you can see it here. The article under is the original page for the DvD.[/info]
Chaos&Evolutions is a DVD tutorial with hours of advanced course about digital paintings, concept art, character design, creature design, environments, illustrations and model sheets. The DVD tutorials use a music soundtrack, without voice over. English labels will guide you, which makes it especially targeted at an international public.
All the examples have been painted with Gimp-painter 2.6 . But you can follow the tutorials with your own 2D application too; like Krita / Mypaint / Photoshop ... etc. The lessons are not centered around the software ; but about the Technic.
The videos are in 1440x896 and play well in VLC, and are distributed freely under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
**So why to buy it ?**
Because if you don't, open project like this one will stop. The Blender Open Movie Workshop DVD series is a Blender Institute product and compare to other company who sells tutorial ; this buisness model rocks. Think about it ; By purchasing this DVD you support the Blender Foundation projects and the free culture.
[Buy the Dvd 'Chaos and Evolutions' on Blender e-shop](http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=122)
## Artworks gallery :
During the production of this courses, I painted a lot of artworks. Here is the result:
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Enough food is produced in the world today to feed everyone, but it's not the case... That's the best way to see the total failure of our actual human societies. This is what I tried to represent in this picture.
What can we do? We can help associations like the World Food Programme: .
Edit 2023: You can now purchase a print of it [on my Redbubble shop](https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/140667635?ref=studio-promote).
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Talking about NDE, or [**N**ear **D**eath **E**xperience](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_death_experience "Wikipedia link to the NDE page" ) is something difficult. Surely because it's related to the death, religion or personal believes. I'm personnaly sticking to science but I like all the fantasy imagery developped by this esoteric litterature. All the descriptions and articles I could read about stimulated my imagination. That's why I decided to depict a first vision of it after gathering a lot of documentation.
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