the mythical louse

Dirty dirty illustrations…

We were invited to work on a cultural show here in Tana (@ Soarano Train Station). The theme was “The comb” mainly around a collection of ethnical combs. In Madagascar each ethnic groups have different attributes to show off power, means, social position… One of these ethnic groups, named Antandroy, used to wear comb to define their social position, role in the tribe, sexual availability…

Modern art was the most current style, the invited artists were painters, sculptors, photographers, crafters… So I decided to work on fake comics covers, inspired by Hergé’s masterpiece : the Adventures of Tintin. I draw only 8/24… Not so easy to take back (pastiche) all the covers, and I had no time left too…

So my main character is a louse, his pet is a mite and the professor/captain a tick. I worked with blender for the 3D scenes, and boosted lights and different effects with photoshop. I try to create a render between photos generated by an electronic microscope and macroscopic photos (photos generated by an electronic microscope don’t show transparency neither deep of field…)

Printed on tintoretto gesso paper (A3), sticked on PVC FOAM, each illustration is numbered (1 to 5) and signed.

I extended the expo at the Outcool Pub in Tana

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CETAMADA VIDEO

To begin this year, we had the opportunity to work with an Eco-organisation, based in Madagascar : CETAMADA. The purpose of this association was to create on a short 3D animation. This video is a part of a program of awareness of marine mammals, the funny part is the way this educational media will be presented. An educator will hit the road on his motorcycle all along the coast, he’ll stop in each school to teach how to live with marine mammals (most of coast local business is related to humpback whales, like crafting, tourism, seaside resort…)

For this first work, Yannick has performed a sound & video editing, and I’ve worked on blender to bring life in 3D models like whales, dolphins and the little girl who comments. I left 3D for a while, so when I began to work on this project, I was looking for a different 3D application, as a matter of fact, I used to work on 3DSmax for a decade, but the modeling tools are not so intuitive as I expected… Blender was my first choice, and glad to experiment more stuff…

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see the video here

NB : The video is signed Cobalt Studio, consider it’s the last work of my former studio or the first of studio kalanoor…