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Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetle..... WIP

2012-01-17T15:54:00.002+01:00

Here is my last work, it's a Work in Progress of the principal character from the old animated tv show beeltejuice.
I was lucky enough to find an original concept from the art departement. see at the bottom of this message
I prefer showing him without hair until i do it with Hair'n Fur from 3dsmax.
Actually everything is done with zbrush, now i'm gonna export it to 3dsmax for retopology, textures, Blendshape...

Beetlejuice Bold version from Julien NICOLAS on Vimeo.

BeetleClayJuice from Julien NICOLAS on Vimeo.

Teaching in Strasbourg

2012-01-16T01:08:00.001+01:00

I had the pleasure to come back to strasbourg to teach Vray, After effect and Zbrush lessons.
it's been a long time since i hadn't gone to strasbourg and it's still a beautifull city.
I really enjoyed to share my passion of 3D and knowledge with the students.

Angel professional commission

2011-12-13T16:16:00.001+01:00

Here is my last job, a pro commission, i had to sculpt an existing sculpture from the hyperrealist chineses artists Sun Yuan & Peng Yu,
Sculpt with Zbrush, Hair with Max + hair'n Fur, Render 3dsmax + Vray.

Interview 3DMag

2011-12-06T23:06:00.001+01:00

You can find the tutorial of Fester Addams and an interview of myself on the new 3DMAG Hors serie n°4 available >>>HERE<<< (in french)

2x CGArena Choice Award

2011-11-26T12:02:00.001+01:00

i'm really happy to get a second Choice Award at www.cgarena.com and see my job in front page again.

The Mask

2011-11-05T04:28:00.004+01:00

here is my last render, Jim Carrey as The Mask.
I sculpted himt using zbrush and 3dsmax. Painted him with Zbrush Mudbox et photoshop.
Rendered with Vray.
I sculpted and retopologysed his full body, like a cinematic character ready for setup and animation.

CGArena Excellence Award

2011-11-04T11:56:00.000+01:00

My Fester Addams have been choose to be part of the characters gallery of www.cgarena.com.

Top Row Award!

2011-10-18T09:13:00.001+02:00

What a good surprise this morning, i go on http://www.cgfeedback.com and i see my Fester in front page!
I'm really happy for this thanks to everybody for the support.

Fester/Fétide Addams

2011-10-12T12:15:00.004+02:00

Here is my latest sculpt Fester Addams, i've been a fan of the Addams famlily movie since i was a kind, so here is my tribute to this great character of the 90's interpreted by the great christopher lloyd.
halloween get closer now! i always enjoyed this mood eventhough it was not a feast we were participating in france when i was a kid.
I had a lot of nice feedback on him from some cg website, thanks to everbody!

Sculpt with zbrush, rendered with 3dsmax and Vray.

Kokorico de Jean Paul Gaultier

2011-10-12T12:00:00.001+02:00

Months ago i had to sculpt the new fragrance of Jean Paul Gaultier, based on an original design of Jean Paul Gaultier and Interbrand, it was a pleasant job to sculpt so many shapes, at the end one shape won, not my favorite but the client was satisifed that's all that matter

Kokoriko de jean Paul Gaultier from Julien NICOLAS on Vimeo.

Valentina de Valentino

2011-10-12T00:19:00.001+02:00

I had the opportunity to work with the designers to give life to this nice perfum. My job was to digitally sculpt the flowers and adapt them to the bottle and cap, i had to work as always with technical collegues for the industrial process.
it was a challenge to sculpt those flowers due to the very short deadline and the technical contraints wich came with the industrial process.
I'm pretty happy of the final result.
Sculpt with Zbrush.
(i found those photos on google, i only sculpted the shape, no render for this one)

L'air du temps de Nina Ricci

2011-10-11T19:49:00.004+02:00

Finally i can show some of my published work!
here is "l'air du temps" a fragrance by Nina Ricci, i took part of the sculpt of the bottle and the cap. Based on a 3D scan of the 50 years old original bottle i had to model the bottle with 3dsmax and sculpt the cap with zbrush.
i also worked on the starck model.

(just find this picture on google)

L'Air Du temps Sculpt from Julien NICOLAS on Vimeo.

Paris here i am!

2011-10-11T18:19:00.002+02:00

I finally made the decision to move to Paris to work in the film and advertising.

After working 6 years for the design industry, where I had the opportunity to work for great brands, Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Dior, Nina Ricci, issey Miyake and to sculpt some of the famous design you can find in the market.

I want now to use my skills in sculpting/modeling and my character creation knowledge to help to give life to cool characters, and great projects.

Homer in motion (finally!)

2011-03-06T16:43:00.004+01:00

i finally found the time to work on a short animation of homer!
here is a final shot of homer speaking in french.
Everything is done with 3dsmax, Vray 2.0 and some aftereffect/Premiere CS5 for the compositiong.
to watch it in HD follow the link to vimeo.

Homer speaking french from Julien NICOLAS on Vimeo.

WIP soldier

2010-12-13T08:43:00.004+01:00

i'm designing and modeling a soldier for a team project...
Zbrush. need to spend more work on it...

Soldier WIP from Julien NICOLAS on Vimeo.

BOB

2010-08-06T00:37:00.003+02:00

Design and modeling of Bob, on 3dsmax render with Vray.
Rig and Set up are done. i'd like to animate him one day...

BOB from Julien NICOLAS on Vimeo.

Homer again

2010-08-05T18:39:00.010+02:00

yes i can't stop working on, homer my first love haha, a better render using the famous linear workflow.
hope you like it!

WIP Caricature Bruce Lee

2009-11-13T10:21:00.012+01:00

Caricature of bruce lee made for a speed sculpt challenge for 3dtotal.com.

Sculpt and texture on zbrush.

hair and render on 3dsmax and Mental Ray.