benjamin malartre - 2d/3d technical director

Animation

RoundZero - Les Gobelins 2005
Made with three classmates: Vincent Devay, Barth Maunoury and Mathieu Vig.

Tom Snare - Capucccino Studio 2008
Clip for Tom Snare directed by Ahmidou Lyazidi

Animation Exercises - Les Gobelins 2005
-Walk Cycle
-Lifting a weight

Gulli- Def2Shoot 2007
Testing the facial rig for the character Gullia, for the TV channel Gulli

Mikido - Def2Shoot 2006
Stop motion animation style test for the TV serie Mikido, for Method Animation

Gecko - Def2Shoot 2007
Walk cycle testing the rig for this character for a pilot for a TV serie "Gecko" directed by Cedric Babouche

Hairs Bande Demo

The Linkers - Ellipsanime 2013
I develloped a polygonal based solution for grooming and animation of long hairs, and scripted the pipeline for simulating caching the hairs for rendering.

Dia de Muertos - SolidAnim 2013
Hair test for a potential feature film "Dia de Muertos"

Non Photorealistic Rendering

Fumes 2D - Ellipsanime 2013
FXs on an ad for a dutsch bank.

Lucky Luke - Ellipsanime 2013
R&D for toon line rendering with the LuckyLuke character(non use in production)

R5 - Chez Oim
Realtime capture of my silhouette detection and line drawing ICE nodes suite for Softimage

SambaLesCouilles - Les Arts du Forez 2012
Extracts from a clip for some friends of mine "The Bendover Boysfriends". Using my Toon ICE nodes and ICE rig

Les Barbapapas - AT Videos 2011
First version of the softimage toon line and showing the tool I wrote "Barbatruc" for morphing between arbitrary shapes

Cloth Bande Demo

Un Monstre à Paris - Europacorp 2011
Cloth supervisor on this feature film directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron. I implemented the cloth pipeline based opn the syflex simulator. It was a three passes workflow: simulate, correct and cache.
The Tunes - Def2Shoot 2007
Rig and Cloth TD on this clip for "The tunes", directed by Cedric Babouche.
Yakari - Ellipsanime 2013
Cloth TD on this test for a potential upcoming feature film "Yakari". I cleaned and upgraded my cloth tools.

Round Zero

Graduation Film -Les Gobelins 2004
I make this short movie with three classmates: Barth Maunoury, Vince Devay and Mat Vig.
I was mostly in charge of all character rigs(body & facial).
I did some modeling(the boxer\'s head), and animated 3 shots(1,2 & 7) of the film.

Bande Démo Rig

Obelix - Def2Shoot 2007
Muscle Rig I develloped for a contest for a potential feature film "Asterix & le domaine des dieux".
Modeling: Pascal Charrue
Animation:Jonathan Delval
Rigging,Dynamics:Me

Incontrollable - Def2Shoot 2008
I rigged the foot for some FXs shots in the feature film Incontrollable, directed by Raffy Shart.

Mr Loutre - La Station Animation 2009
Character rigger on this pilot for the TV serie "Les aventures culturelles de Mr Loutre",
directed by Ahmidou Lyazidi & Marguerite Sauvage.
I scripted a biped rig solution based on Ahmidou\'s design.

Gullia - Def2Shoot 2007
Facial rig for the character Gullia for the TV channel Gulli. Scripted solution for maximum reusability.

Gecko - Def2Shoot 2007
Quadrupede rig(co-develloped with Jeremie Passerin) and facial for this character for a TV serie "Gecko" directed by Cedric Babouche.

Omo Micro - Cube Creative 2008
I rigged all the characters(body & facial) on this ad.
I worked closely with the art director & animation director.
I also did the cloth simulation.

Blood The last Vampire - Eclair VFX 2009
I scripted a facial rig solution,
an operator to glue animation & simulation stages,
and a point cache solution,
plus various tools for helping animators.
My first R&D job.

Spontex - Digital Golem 2015
Cloth skin with custom muscle rig for this realistic hedgehog

Car Rig

Car Rig - Las Station Animation 2009
Car Rig develloped for La Station Animation,
featuring ground-locking, path following and automatic wheels plus a keyable layer for secondary animations

Bande Démo ICE

ICE Demo 2010-2014
Random experiments using Softimage ICE
Growing Vegetation, Feather System Flocking crowd, with little AI...