Ratatouille.

Last year, I was ask to come down with some posters ideas for the next Pixar film, Ratatouille. Such a great and exciting project to work on.

The brief was to do a very 1920's French style illustration, I thought about A.M Cassandre straight away, beautiful simple designs.

The top one was the favorite, and I then did the 2 other ones. I did the last one in black and white first, but they wanted a color version to fit with the style of the movie better.

I had very little information about how Remy will look like at the time, which I guess was good in a way to help me keeping the design simple.

They're going to be used for consumer products purposes.

Bon Apetit!

Waiting...

Around The Corner.

I've noticed few vintage Alfa Romeo cars in my neighbourhood lately, they're really interesting to draw. I love sketching cars more and more, actually all sorts of vehicles, I don't know why.

Snow Chaos.

A lot of snow this morning in London. Couldn't ride my scooter, so I took the tube for the first time in a long time.

Lurking Around The Corner...

The uber talented Matthew caught sketching in Nuremberg.

Toy Fair.

I've been to a Toy Fair last week in Nuremberg (Germany)...this is what I brought back.
Below is the Durer House. Very beautiful all distorted house.



One of the funny moment of the fair was to watch people having a go at the Nintendo Wii, they seemed to have so much fun!




This red fellow below is one of the bouncers you'll have to talk to if you want to get into any stands to have a look. How crazy is that? The toy fair is anything but fun actually, once you're inside, it's pretty serious, and you don't see one kid!
This one was the Mattel bouncer.



Some stands are more welcoming though, like this girl on the top left, and this funky chap who is one of the Lego designers.



We also had a great conversation with our Taxi driver one evening.