tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35292726637570369572024-03-18T02:47:57.055-07:00A Sketchy Past, The Art of Peter de SèvePeter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-3493449346801621832014-10-31T11:43:00.002-07:002014-10-31T12:16:57.035-07:00Something Familiar<br />
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I wanted to do this idea for a New Yorker cover for years and never got around to it until now. As it happens, my "Hip Hops" piece (from the previous post) was accepted as the cover of the Food Issue which unfortunately was scheduled to appear the only week this one could have run. In other words, I bumped my own cover.<br />
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Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-74789125500203644142014-10-27T13:49:00.000-07:002014-10-28T06:10:32.574-07:00Hip Hops<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5oOCk0Z7F-o/VE6t9bfFpOI/AAAAAAAABbU/wkOPG0ohOWg/s1600/CoverStory-Hip-Hops-Peter-de-Seve-690-942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5oOCk0Z7F-o/VE6t9bfFpOI/AAAAAAAABbU/wkOPG0ohOWg/s1600/CoverStory-Hip-Hops-Peter-de-Seve-690-942.jpg" height="400" width="292" /></a><br />
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It seems that all my New Yorker ideas these days have to do with my neighborhood here in Brooklyn. Here's a piece inspired by one of my favorite beer joints.<br />
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Don't blame me for the title, it was <b>Bill Plympton's</b> idea! But then again, so was the show itself, which was a pretty good idea. Opening this week at the <b>Society of Illustrators of New York</b>, will be a four-man show called <b>Icons of Animation</b> which will feature the work of the indefatigable <b>Bill Plympton,</b> the dazzling <b>Carlos Nine,</b> the fantastical <b>William Joyce</b> and, um, <b>me</b>. I haven't seen it yet but I can't wait. On view will be over one hundred pieces of original works on paper for projects varying from the highly personal to the shamelessly commercial. Please join us (Bill and me at least; Joyce and Nine couldn't make the journey because of other commitments) for the opening reception this Friday evening.<br />
Details <a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/The-Museum/2014/Movies/Opening-Reception--Icons-of-Animation--William-Joyce,-Peter-de-S%C3%A8ve,-Carlos-Nine,-and-Bill-Plympton.aspx">here!</a><br />
And if that's not enough for you, this Thursday night, Bill and I will sit on a panel together discussing our experiences in the field of animation which will be moderated by my old pal, J.J. Sedelmaier.<br />
The event is sponsored by the <b>Academy of Motion Pictures</b> and will take place at <b>The Academy Theater at Lighthouse Guild</b>.<br />
Details <a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/Events-and-Programs/Films/2014/The-Art-of-Illustration/The-Art-of-Illustration.aspx">HERE!</a>Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com117tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-33063292536526211362014-03-31T07:26:00.000-07:002014-03-31T10:05:36.253-07:00A New Leaf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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I know I've said this before, but for inspiration one doesn't have to go very far, especially in New York City. One short hop on the Lexington Ave. line is a crash course in character and costume design. </div>
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Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com47tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-77066737879677194062014-01-21T08:16:00.001-08:002014-01-24T08:44:52.461-08:00"Just a Pinch"<br />
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This cover came out yesterday and my first reaction was embarrassment; it was unseasonably warm and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I'm delighted to report that as I write this, the snow is coming down by the pound.<br />
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I'll be teaching a one day workshop in character design for anyone who might happen to be in Paris on November 12th. The class will be sponsored by France's most prominent movie magazine, <b><a href="http://www.lefilmfrancais.com/">Le Film Francais</a></b> and will include a lecture and short assignment which we will review in class. You can find more details about the workshop <b><a href="http://www.lefilmfrancais.com/les-workshops">here</a></b>.<br />
Believe it or not, aside from my class, there is another reason to go to Paris. After long last, my dear friends Diane and Jean-Jacques Launier will finally celebrate the opening of their new museum, <b><a href="http://artludique.com/">Art Ludik,</a> </b> which will be dedicated to showcasing work done for the entertainment arts, especially in animation. Amazingly, their very first exhibition will be <b>The Art of Pixar</b> which is an updated version of the colossal event that premiered at the <b>Museum of Modern Art </b>back in 2006. I can't wait to raise a glass to Diane and JJ and to their own colossal achievement.Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-16148040077099123452013-10-21T13:03:00.001-07:002013-10-23T07:12:50.745-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I began this picture thinking it would be such a breeze and yet somehow it still turned into a fight to the death. After four failed attempts, each one almost finished, I was in complete and utter despair and ready to give up. Luckily, Randall courageously dared to come down to the studio to see what all the wailing and smashing of furniture was about and calmly pulled this version out of the trash. "You can save this one. <i>Really. </i>I'm not just saying it." With no hope left and nothing to lose, I dove in again, oddly liberated by the thought that I would be no worse off than before she came downstairs.<br />
I've been learning this lesson over and over again since the first time I picked up a pencil-- to throw caution to the wind and trust that it will work out. Easier said than done. But after all that struggle and some help from my lovely wife, I have to admit, I kind of like this piece.<br />
It's not the one I pictured, but really, how often does that happen anyway?<br />
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<br />Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-69198153919296028062013-06-04T21:41:00.002-07:002013-06-04T22:14:03.383-07:00I've been trying to climb out of a little drawing rut I've been in lately and convinced myself to go to <a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/Events-and-Programs/Sketch-Night/Sketch-Night.aspx">Sketch Night at the NY Society of Illustrators</a> this evening. I was talking to a writer friend of mine afterwards and she commiserated with me on the need to shake things up a bit every now and then. Drawing from the imagination is not the same as drawing from life and writing book reviews is not the same as writing a short story. But the critical thinking needed to write a book review can help inform a work of fiction, the same way drawing a real person can help you better depict one who is wholly invented. <br />
I am not saying that one night of drawing the figure repaired things for me entirely, but it was refreshing to use a different part of the brain again-- the one that observes rather than the one that imagines. Both are so crucial in this line of work, but it is easy to forgo one for the other, leaving that neglected part of the brain to dry up a little. So here is a single drawing out of only three or four I did tonight that may or may not represent a light at the end of the tunnel.<br />
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Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-56486691342277276442013-06-03T08:02:00.000-07:002013-06-03T22:03:21.820-07:00Peter Clarke<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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My pal, <b>Peter Clarke</b>,
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met him in the earliest days of the very first <b>Ice Age</b> movie, I got the distinct impression that he would much rather
be left alone to do his work than stand around jawing with the likes of me.
Well, it soon became clear to me and to everyone else at <b>Blue Sky Studios</b>, that there was a lot going on beneath those still waters.
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Clarke is what is known in the industry as a “world-builder”;
the person a director goes to when he/she wants to finally see the universe in
which their story will take place. This happens soon after a script has begun taking shape and
will often inform where the story and the “look” of the entire
production will eventually go. Clarke has an astonishingly intuitive grasp of
perspective and can bend it to whatever suits his purpose. Whether depicting
ancient undersea caverns or multi leveled futuristic societies, he makes the impossible utterly convincing. His style is very much his own with one foot planted firmly in the real world and the other in a gnarled, cubist bizarroland. Both his environments and the
characters that dwell in them for that matter, are made of simultaneously twisting and chiseled
forms that despite their seeming elasticity, are still somehow totally
plausible. If you were to look at any frame of the first Ice Age
movie <i>without</i> the characters, you
would know exactly who designed that world. Imagine being given the assignment
to create a fascinating and varied landscape comprised of<i> only ice and sky</i>.
Peter embraced the limitations and made a barren landscape his playground with the result being one of the most unique I’ve seen
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Peter Clarke's show, <b>Past,
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Burbank, California and is a joint effort by <b><a href="http://www.ctnanimationexpo.com/">CTN</a></b> (Creative Talent Network), <b><a href="http://stuartngbooks.com/">Stuart Ng Books</a></b> and
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The show opens on June 6<sup>th </sup>and will run until June 30th.<br />
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As you may recall, my wife, <a href="https://randall-deseve.squarespace.com/">Randall de Sève</a>, has written a few children's books, including our one collaboration, <b><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/hybrid?filter0=randall+de+seve&x=0&y=0">The Duchess of Whimsy</a></b>. Above is an announcement for a pub party to celebrate her latest,<b> <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/hybrid?filter0=randall+de+seve&x=0&y=0">Peanut and Fifi have a Ball</a>, </b>to be held at the greatest children's books store on the planet, <b><a href="http://www.booksofwonder.com/">Books of Wonder</a></b>. The book is charmingly illustrated by <b><a href="http://www.paulschmidbooks.com/books/Welcome.html">Paul Schmid</a></b> who has quite a few books under his belt himself.<br />
If you'd like a signed copy or just want to say hello, we'll see you this Thursday!<br />
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<br />Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-16093500598017250992013-02-11T10:53:00.002-08:002013-02-11T10:54:40.398-08:00The Delaware Art Museum<br />
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I am taking part in what sounds like a terrific show at the <b>Delaware Art Museum </b>called <b>State of the Art, Illustration 100 Years after Howard Pyle</b>. I say it <i>sounds</i> terrific because I haven't actually seen it yet, due to the blizzard named Nemo (thank you, Pixar) which slammed the northeast on the night of the opening. The show is described below by, David Apatoff, the curator of the exhibit and a collector and connoisseur of Illustration, past and present.<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-left;">For this exciting contemporary exhibition, Guest Curator David Apatoff, illustration scholar and author of biographies on Robert Fawcett and Albert Dorne, highlights the following eight artists: story illustrator Bernie Fuchs; graphic designer Milton Glaser; </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-left;">MAD</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-left;">caricaturist and comic artist Mort Drucker; </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-left;">The New Yorker</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> cover artist and character designer for animated films, Peter de Sève; editorial artist John Cuneo; painter and book artist Phil Hale; painter and magazine illustrator Sterling Hundley; and Pixar production designer Ralph Eggleston.</span></i>Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-23907939502586336522013-02-09T21:16:00.000-08:002013-02-10T08:08:38.039-08:00Blah! Blah! Blah! by Ward Kimball The image below was sent to me recently by an old high school pal of mine, Robert Arkus ,who found it on Facebook and thought I might find it interesting. Not only did I find it interesting but despite the fact that it was written years ago to someone else entirely, it spoke very directly to me and I suspect it will to many of you fellow visual artists as well.<br />
I hope it won't seem too egotistical to say that I get a fair amount of correspondence from artists, young and sometimes not so young, who struggle with their work and come to me for advice. The queries, while flattering can also be exhausting to answer. Questions like, "If you have a few minutes, could you give me some secrets on how to become a successful illustrator?"or "I really love character design, can you tell me the quickest way to do that?" are virtually impossible to answer. While I truly do understand the desire for tips and shortcuts and secret recipes, they simply don't exist. And though I have struggled to answer many a letter like this, there are many more that I simply didn't have the time for. Below is a typewritten note (written on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter">typewriter</a>!) by the great <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Kimball">Ward Kimball</a>, legendary Disney animator, to an aspiring young animator named Will Finn. It is the perfect, no-nonsense reply to anyone seeking advice, inspiration and a well needed kick in the ass. The fact that it was written forty years ago does not diminish it's message to us in the least. Every line of it is the honest unvarnished truth about becoming an animator or illustrator and to some extent, a well rounded human being. For me it is a welcome splash in the face with a cold bucket of reality. A reminder that success in what you do doesn't just happen to you.<br />
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A decade has now passed since I did my very first designs for the<b> Ice Age</b> franchise. And though the series is perhaps a little gray around the tusks, it shows no real signs of slowing down--at least according to the Almighty Box Office. <b>Ice Age, Continental Drift</b> is apparently breaking all kinds of records overseas and isn't exactly tanking at home either. And yes, I have my quibbles with the final result but I won't use my space here to delve into them. The little ones seem to be enjoying the film anyway, so who am I to argue?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was only when I stumbled on the idea of making him an orangutan that things started to flow. What creature could be more at home swinging from the rigging? I think the animators were very relieved to have a character they could really have fun with and one who wasn't simply a biped. After all, an ape has four hands to work with.</td></tr>
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The New Yorker has apparently sent out a little email blast with a link to a page spotlighting my work and providing an opportunity to purchase prints of many ( but apparently not all) of my covers. So why not post it <a href="http://www.condenaststore.com/-st/Peter-de-Seve-Prints_c146965_.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_content=4533794&utm_campaign=201205-deseve-&utm_source=TNYS-Customers">HERE</a>, too?Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-7025354890610288812012-04-25T12:00:00.003-07:002012-04-29T17:57:55.830-07:00Tag Sale<br />
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So, here's my latest cover, which I must confess, I have mixed feelings about. I wish I could say it was a victory, but I'm afraid the painting got away from me. I fussed with it longer than I should have and made the mistake of taking my reference too seriously. "Brownstone steps are red," I observed, "therefore I shall paint these brownstone steps <i>red</i>". I broke the cardinal rule, "Take what you need and throw out the rest." If I'd just placed the objects the dog is selling on a lighter, more neutral color, the result would not be the chaotic, hodge-podge you see before you. At my request, Françoise Mouly the art director at the New Yorker, did her best to finesse the color digitally, but alas, it couldn't change my feelings about the piece. I am looking forward to my next cover being my best cover.<br />
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All that said, it is still a nice way to introduce you to our newish dog, who, to my shame, has not appeared in a drawing or on this blog for the two years we have owned him. Meet, Henry Biscuit, a labrador mix who is a terrified neurotic on the streets of Brooklyn, but is a normal, happy puppy in the rolling hills of the countryside.<br />
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My pals <a href="http://igallo.blogspot.com/">Irene Gallo</a>, the art director who has done more to support and publish the art of fantastic illustration in the last decade than anyone else I can think of and <a href="http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/p/greg-manchess.html">Greg Manchess</a>, one of the most fantastic of those illustrators of the fantastic, invited me to participate in a small group show called <b>Microvisions</b>. When I say <i>small</i>, I refer not only to the number of artists invited, (there are only a dozen) but also to the size of the pieces submitted. Subject matter was completely unrestricted but the artwork <u>must</u> be done at only 5X7 inches.<br />
When Greg called me to ask whether I'd be interested, I registered some wariness. "How involved do these things get?", I asked. He laughed cheerfully and said "Oh, don't worry, Pete, it's tiny and all you have to do is a little, iddy-biddy sketch! Do one of your funny birds or something!" "Okay, Greg, I'll do it!"I said, like a lamb to slaughter.<br />
What then followed was a steady and relentless pounding by my fellow Microvisionaries as one after another, they modestly submitted their masterpieces. I kid you not, almost every one of these things looks like it was painted at 5X7 feet, with stunning rendering and absurd detail. And those that were not painted, are still gorgeous, completely defying the size restriction. As you can see, I ended up doing a hairy little sketch after all, but I am still very happy to be included with this amazing bunch of artists.<br />
Go <a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/The-Museum/2012/2012-Microvisions/MicroVisions.aspx">HERE</a> if you want to see a partial preview.<br />
The goal of the show, by the way, is to have an <b>Ebay</b> auction to benefit the <b><a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Student-Scholarship/Overview.aspx">Society of Illustrator's Student Scholarship Fund.</a> </b>Irene and Greg have yet to post the details of the auction but here is a link to the show which will be on view at the <b><a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/The-Museum/2012/2012-Microvisions/MicroVisions.aspx">Society of Illustrators from April 17th to May 12th.</a></b><br />
As a side note, I have to add what camaraderie each and every member of this group displayed during the course of submitting our work. The encouragement, humor and mutual respect was such a delightful and unexpected pleasure and I feel like we've begun a conversation that all of us are eager to continue.<br />
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After missing a few opportunities to sit on the jury for the <a href="http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/">Spectrum Awards</a> I will finally get my chance this weekend. On Friday I fly off to Kansas City where my esteemed fellow jurors and I will spend the weekend looking at over 6000 entries. From among them we will choose what we feel is the very best illustration done during the past year for the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and the simply Fantastic.<br />
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This was just an excuse to draw a dragon.Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-323993892770850942012-02-27T07:50:00.001-08:002012-02-27T12:52:41.595-08:00Pachyderm's Progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love to sculpt and I never sculpt.<br />
Every time I've taken the opportunity to explore a character in clay (or sculpy as the case may be) I've found it incredibly satisfying. For me, it is such a perfect extension of drawing and in some ways a fuller experience. Drawing a figure in a pose is one thing, but it is often a cheat. It's only when committing that drawing to 3D that you see how much you faked for the sake of that one angle. That's the challenge and the pleasure of it though. In clay, you have a chance to spin your drawing around, to add and subtract. And not just lines, but real <i>volume</i>. Real <i>weight. </i><br />
As with almost everything I do, this piece is an assignment. Left to my own devices, I would probably noodle this to death or only get it half done. But fortunately my pal, Michael DeFeo, formerly head of the sculpting department at Blue Sky and now a formidable gun for hire, is also something of an entrepreneur. He's come up with a scheme to sell a line of small sculptures by prominent illustrators and character designers as limited editions. This may be one of them if we like the final result. The line is called <b>Designer Rock Stars</b> (his title, <i>not mine</i>) and is in it's still in it's early stages. By the way, check out the video about his <b>L'Ecorche app.</b> It looks like it will be an astonishingly good tool for understanding human anatomy in a really complete way. You can find it <a href="http://md3dinc.com/">here.</a><br />
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So anyway, I am putting my little maquette out here not only to prove that I am still alive, but to force me to finish the thing.<br />
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<br />Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-64056479828588120272011-12-26T00:12:00.000-08:002011-12-26T21:12:44.106-08:00Deep Reading<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wGfUVE8YJeU/TvUj_CGlzRI/AAAAAAAABEI/dQmtZBMECtQ/s1600/DeepReading_lo_res.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689493270055734546" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wGfUVE8YJeU/TvUj_CGlzRI/AAAAAAAABEI/dQmtZBMECtQ/s400/DeepReading_lo_res.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 312px; width: 400px;" /></a>Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-67078918175786524602011-12-20T11:42:00.000-08:002011-12-20T12:46:39.178-08:00And to all a good night.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CdmXzxsI5JU/TvDolIIrdrI/AAAAAAAABDw/Wdj1bw1KXLE/s1600/Christmas.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CdmXzxsI5JU/TvDolIIrdrI/AAAAAAAABDw/Wdj1bw1KXLE/s400/Christmas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688302053905626802" /></a>Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-67575694188737452722011-12-13T21:13:00.000-08:002011-12-13T21:17:50.526-08:00Lobster Tale<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vYB_3fQIBH8/Tugw0fKKW6I/AAAAAAAABDY/ucS6YqqLMjY/s1600/LobsterSuit_lo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 356px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vYB_3fQIBH8/Tugw0fKKW6I/AAAAAAAABDY/ucS6YqqLMjY/s400/LobsterSuit_lo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685848207830703010" /></a><div><br />A picture is worth a thousand words, </div><div>which is fortunate, since I have nothing to add.</div>Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-14652250309295588092011-12-06T22:08:00.000-08:002011-12-06T22:34:08.003-08:00Merry Christmas to Me<span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sG0XWvLdWq8/Tt8Fr3aaQ1I/AAAAAAAABDM/rKHH0vItd5w/s1600/Gransanta_11%2Bcopy%2B2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sG0XWvLdWq8/Tt8Fr3aaQ1I/AAAAAAAABDM/rKHH0vItd5w/s400/Gransanta_11%2Bcopy%2B2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683267505932092242" /></a><br />I just learned that I've been nominated for an <b><a href="http://www.annieawards.org/consideration.html#11">Annie Award</a></b> for my work on <b><a href="http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/behind_the_scenes/ArthurChristmas-BEHINDTHESCENES.php">Arthur Christmas</a></b>. It's very exciting indeed but I would be remiss if I didn't insert a reminder here about the process of bringing </span><span class="Apple-style-span">these characters to the screen. Getting a workable design on paper is just the beginning. After all the off- the- cuff doodles are created and culled, the real work of sculpting, modeling, furring, surfacing, rigging, animating and lighting has yet to be done. Overseeing all of that on Arthur Christmas was a fellow named <b>Tim Watts</b>, who I'm been told is a great guy and who did a really wonderful job of translating my scribbles into something animatable. So win or lose, I have Tim and the rest of the crew at Sony/Aardman to thank in getting this far.<div>And as they say, even if I don't win, </div><div>it's an honor just to be animated.</div><div><br /></div></span>Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529272663757036957.post-90748022745525174272011-11-23T12:24:00.000-08:002018-11-14T11:53:37.975-08:00Peter de Sèvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152224633122370444noreply@blogger.com21