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Happy December everyone! I hope its cold where you guys live, and are able to enjoy the cold weather. I love cold weather but living in Texas…uh yeah.

Glad people enjoyed the little snippet of the next SKZ chapter! I’m chugging along with the animatic, cleaning up thumbnails and considering voice actors. Had to put a temporary pause on things so I can wrap up my current animation that is so close to be finished.

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So far my free-time has gone to being split among 3 projects, to 2, to 1. I’m not sure if I’m going to go back to having 2 projects at the same-time or solely focusing on one till completion? I want to build a new animation/storyboard portfolio, and so completing as many projects as I can within a year is my new goal.

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Thank you for watching my content, Stay safe and ROCK ON!

GIFASTIC SPOTLIGHT #2 : MARIE DE DURAT@gifastic is an animation collective created by @matthieu-fouq

GIFASTIC SPOTLIGHT #2 : MARIE DE DURAT

@gifastic is an animation collective created by @matthieu-fouquet&@thevipersnake. The group is formed by 16 members, and you will discover them one by one with GIFASTIC SPOTLIGHT !

All the gifs above are made by Marie de Durat for Gifastic

You can follow her here :

tumblr : @billandashley

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MARIE’S INTERVIEW :


Spotlight : Can you introduce yourself ?

Marie : Hola !  My name is Marie de Durat, I’m 22. I’m currently in fourth year at Georges Méliès school next to Paris. I am working on my graduation movie, « HERO » with four fabulous friends ☆


Spotlight : What do you think about Gifastic and what did it brings you ?

Marie : Mathieu and Arthur had a very good idea bringing Gifastic to life, thanks guys for creating it !
It’s very positive to reunite students from all over the world by their own initiative.
Gifastic has been a breath of fresh air for me. I haven’t done a lot of animation during my studies (working more on vis dev, character design and background for student film) and when I was doing animation exercise for school, it always seemed so difficult, the simplest things were becoming complicated. For Gifastic, we can do just anything we want, simple or more sophisticated. So I relied more on my intuition, loved it, and I learned mostly thanks to this. It has been kind of a revelation.
It’s also a really fun way of thinking « Okay I have this theme, theses colours and only 3 seconds. What kind of story I can tell? »


Spotlight : Can you talk about your inspirations ?

Marie : I just got to many  and it changes a lot so I’m gonna talk about the ones that comes in my mind right now  (in a couple of hours, I’m gonna be such a  frustrated shit because I didn’t talk about this artist or this one, but I can’t mention everyone anyway !)
First, the God of Gods : Taiyo Matsumoto. I discovered him more precisely this year, and everything in his art is just so sensible and humanly accurate. His habit to put life’s « insignifiant » little details in his stories makes it real and relatable. And it’s visually astonishing (I had to read 3 times the first book of samurai bamboo before being able to follow the story because I had tears in my eyes seeing something so beautiful.).
Also there is Masaki Yuasa of course, the work of Studio 4°C, a lot of painters but I can’t name them all so go check the tumblr « Master Painters ». Zilai Feng, Jean Paul Léon, Victoria Antolini , the work of Jenerally drawing, Yoshitaka Amano, Robert Valley, especially his sketches, Gigi Cavenago, Jia Youfu, the illustrator Arx lee, the work of Alex Rimbault is also super funny, Rickey tickey sketches, Mikkel Sommer… Music to, especially hip hop.
But the best inspirations are outside, in the streets, at your school … (I know it sounds like a microwaved generic sentence but it’s true!) Sketching people outside is the thing that I like the most, and the best inspiration I ever found. It’s quite incredible how drawing is seen as something positive or reassuring by people. Sometimes it opens the door to a little chat with this stranger you draw, and that social aspect is something I cherish.


Spotlight :  What would you say to someone who wants to get into animation ?

Marie : Just to say, I only have a student experience so my vision can be not complete compared to someone who is working in the animation industry since years
So if someone tells me he wants that, it’s cool, go for it ! It’s mostly a passion job, so it’s a chance! As Neil said, go for it !

When someone comes and talk to me about getting into animation, I heard a lot of « I’m afraid, I heard that you have to work really really hard, sacrifying a lot of stuff, your spare time, health, family… ». I think it’s possible to keep all of this, having a normal schedule, and work in animation.  Personally I draw a lot, it takes me most of my time, but it is my choice, because I love it, drawing is my work and hobby. But, don’t be afraid, it’s absolutely not an obligation to give all your time to drawing/animation. And more, it’s important to keep time for other stuffs so you don’t turn crazy.
Also I would tell : keep being sincere in your work, and keep the fun ! And remember all the time that everyone has different taste about drawing, and inspiration. Even if one day you may have heard someone say “this style is lame/mainstream/…”, don’t be afraid, everyone is different, as long as you are sincere with what you do. When you do something you like, it’s sweat out your work, and you do better stuff  (It’s a little negative detail but in general everyone is really nice in animation !
AND !  Don’t hesitate to try different things! It’s more fun to use the creative opportunities and ideas your brain gives you ! You can find this way some new  technics, thematics that will follow you during your career.

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Anakin/Darth Vader angsty animation

Anakin animation for a dear friend to celebrate Star Wars day •~•
I literally only watched 1 movie but I have brainrot
At first I wanted to make a crying animation but I ended up with this. Darth Vader is chilling in Mustafar and …ghost?spirit? Padme removes his helmet to show his true self

Working on The Amazing World of GumballatCartoon Network is a fabulous adventure.
An adventure even more pleasant when you have the chance to work with such an incredible team of voice actors!

Please enjoy this musical part from this last episode called “ The Faith”

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