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my name is Jean-Renaud Gauthier, I'm a 3D artist with special interests for character design, modeling and animation. In the current section (Blog/news) you will find the latest news and pictures I've been creating.Visit the portfolio section to see all my artworks, animations and demoreel. Enjoy!
my name is Jean-Renaud Gauthier, I'm a 3D artist with special interests for character design, modeling and animation. In the current section (Blog/news) you will find the latest news and pictures I've been creating.Visit the portfolio section to see all my artworks, animations and demoreel. Enjoy!
14/11 19:24

Long time since I did not drop a line....I've been really busy working as a CG Lead @ MokkoStudio on the upcoming blockbuster "Journey 3-D" starring Brendan Fraser. This is a really ambitious project mixing live actors and tons of CG...ALL in STEREOSCOPY! (It means with 3D glass!) :) We had the chance to work on a couple of shots and explore this old new technique, teamed with our friends of RodeoFX . It's been a real good challenge and I'd like to thanks everybody at Mokkostudio and RodeoFX for their dedicated work and for sharing this ground breaking experience! Cheers! ...Go see the movie when it comes out!! :)
ps: Picture above is not an actual shot of the film, that's right!
Journey to the center of the earth 3D

Long time since I did not drop a line....I've been really busy working as a CG Lead @ MokkoStudio on the upcoming blockbuster "Journey 3-D" starring Brendan Fraser. This is a really ambitious project mixing live actors and tons of CG...ALL in STEREOSCOPY! (It means with 3D glass!) :) We had the chance to work on a couple of shots and explore this old new technique, teamed with our friends of RodeoFX . It's been a real good challenge and I'd like to thanks everybody at Mokkostudio and RodeoFX for their dedicated work and for sharing this ground breaking experience! Cheers! ...Go see the movie when it comes out!! :)
ps: Picture above is not an actual shot of the film, that's right!
22/05 07:32
First ZBrush 3 experiments
Zbrush 3 just realeased a couple of days ago. I'm currently spending all my spare times playing with it. I'm really happy with this release, it surpasses all my expectations! So here's W.I.P. I've done in the past few days, using the topology tool to extract a clean model out of a model started from a simple sphere. I love that tool!! Enjoy the pic, there are certainly more coming soon! :)

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13/02 22:02
Passive Rigid Body
Good evening,
here's a drawing I just finished. I started this one as a color exercise in Photoshop and ended up working on it in and out for quite a while. I wanted to push my "digital painting" skills a bit further than usual and play more with lights and volumes. It was really fun and I think I'll start another one soon...enjoy!

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here's a drawing I just finished. I started this one as a color exercise in Photoshop and ended up working on it in and out for quite a while. I wanted to push my "digital painting" skills a bit further than usual and play more with lights and volumes. It was really fun and I think I'll start another one soon...enjoy!

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22/01 21:25
End of the line - CG Visuals Fxs
Good evening! I'm really happy to tell you I can finally post some CG FXs shots I did for the movie End of the line. Thanks to Maurice Devereaux for is permission! "Right Click/Save target as" on the image below to download; the file is about 18 megabytes. Or CLICK HERE!!
13/01 12:35
End of the line
Alright! My friend Maurice Devereaux just putted on-line the web page for his upcoming horror film END OF THE LINE. I had the chance to work on a couple of FX shots for this creepy film. Here's the link: www.endofthelinemovie.com
15/12 08:09
Illustration - Grapes of Wrath
Here's the result of another challenge between me and a friend; the theme was food/monster...Well disguised as simple grapes, this thing is actually a nasty carnivorous plant!

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20/11 21:00

I just uploaded my short film "The Astronuts" on YouTube.com. Tell your familly, friends and even enemies to go watch this short film!
Click HERE to watch it on You Tube web site
The Astronuts on You Tube!
I just uploaded my short film "The Astronuts" on YouTube.com. Tell your familly, friends and even enemies to go watch this short film!
Click HERE to watch it on You Tube web site
19/11 11:18
The Doagster
Here's the result of a mini challenge I did with a co-worker. The theme was Robot/Animal. So, here comes the Doagster! Semi Dog & semi Toaster, he's got some delicious waffled ears!
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31/10 21:27
Le Petit Géant - New face
Here's a new drawing of an old character of mine.Le petit Géant!
I wanted to add some personality to the character without going to far from the original design.

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I wanted to add some personality to the character without going to far from the original design.

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03/08 14:51
Anatomy Study completed!
Here's the final Zbrush model of my 3D anatomical study. Pretty glad it's done. I'll probably use the model for future images.Stay tuned!

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