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Great hybrid piece by Eriq Waties made for a great, great cause: Save the Bay from the bags!

A friend told me about that ad that I can’t get enough of! I’ll try to find a making of somewhere.

Definitively a eye/hear catcher and a classic of mine. Made by New York Droga5 and music by the great Magnetic Fields.

Won’t make me get the shoes though as I just got some new completely recycled El Natura Lista shoe.

Here’s the 4th stop motion ad I shot for Artv channel with director Gabriel Poirier Galarneau and Toxa.

We shot those this ad the same day then the maple sirup one - two opposite location, two different artist but one strong concept.

So, before I got in touch with that Argentinian stop motion animator, another one from California left me a message on my cell phone and I only found the time to get back to him today. Seems like a great dude with a great sense of humour! You can check out his website at wities.com and here’s a pretty good piece that I only wish I could see it bigger: bikespartdeux

Within the last few weeks, I’ve been contacted by few person interested in stop motion animation or pixilation. It’s always great to see that your work is traveling as far as South America or Europe. My guess is that it’s probably easier to shine out there as one of the very few animators versus one of way too many photographer.

One of the animator who contacted me was Diego Gambarotta. He’s an Argentinian animator who did some great stuff. As I checked his demo, I specially liked this one piece:

I received an email late afternoon yesterday from The Québec’s Magazine Awards - I’ve been nominated into the portrait category for my story on ice fishing in Saguenay. Great news! Last year, I was nominated for the canadian awards for my Cirque Du Soleil story for ROB magazine. Always nice to hear that your work been choosen between many other great one. Those prizes never really bring you anything directly, but as we said in Québec: ça fait un petit velour!

As I’m just getting back in Toronto after some pretty crazy weeks, it’s more then time to get back to blogging. Let’s begin by the ad I directed and animated with the help of a really fine team:

Stop Motion Ad from Sylvain Dumais on Vimeo.

Direcor, animator and post:
Sylvain Dumais
DOP:
Daniel Shipp
Art Direction:
Sandra Dumais
Camera Assistant:
Caitlin Durlak
Animation Assitants:
Sandra Dumais, Caitlin Durlak, Alexis Vallée Charest, Thibault Desvernes
Editing:
Maxime Dumont
Sound, music and effects:
LA Majeure Studio, Montreal
Producer:
Valery Gagné
Production - shoot:
Full Serve Productions
Agency:
Soleil Communication

Two weeks ago I was shooting my stop motion extravaganza in a studio near the DVP in Toronto. Was 3 days of madness and the work is only half way done. We still have to tweak the animation, do some post, Gabriel is working on the motion and the music still need to be composed. Normally, everything should be done within the end of the month, but for now, here’s a still from the shoot:

Actors Melissa Hood and Greg Lanzillotta been aged by special effect makeup artist Iantha Goldberg (represented by The Plutino Group) and Amber Chase - here they are in their mid-age scene.

Gonna look great! And we’re also workingon a great making off.

Haven’t been around much my blog lately. Been too busy to write as I was either thinking, planning, shooting, post processing, directing, quoting or driving, often more than one of the above at the time.

First, a crazy, crazy week in Toronto. Then, on the road to Montreal to shoot a stop motion TV spot for a Quebec client and now in Saguenay, where I’m a guess photographer for a project in collaboration with Regards Sur Le Court Métrage short film festival and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

( view from my car on the road between Québec City and Saguenay )

Then, I’ll do the reverse path, first to Montreal to wrap the tv spot and shoot another one for Artv before I head back to my wife and friend in Toronto. There, I’m on hold for a Canon 5D Mark II ( 3 of them! ) crazy project in HD in Dundas Square at night.