It is been exactly 21 years. I started working in the web industry in 2000 and my desire to move towards animation came very early.
First with the arrival of the .gif format and later Flash (Macromedia) and After Effects. I really started 3D in 2001 completely self-taught.
There were no courses at the time and tutorials on the internet were relatively rare.
I have always been passionate about audio visual, since my adolescence. If I hadn’t worked in the image field, I probably would have done it in the sound. I was also a big consumer of films and series of all kinds.
A pioneer ? No, I wouldn’t pretend to say that. We are all followers of someone else who paved the way for us, aren’t we?
But it’s true that I got into the field very early. Motion design was still in an early stage.
Today when I see the dazzling evolution of new tools, and mainly real-time iteration, I think that I should have been born 20 years later.
So yes, my work has necessarily benefited from his developments as well. Where a few years ago we had to wait and drink 2 coffees after modifying the settings of a render, today it is instantaneous, it allows us to try many more things and therefore to choose the most interesting option
The only real competition is the one you have against yourself, right? If you start comparing yourself to others, it’s a never-ending struggle.
I think it’s very important to challenge yourself, set goals and strive to achieve them. There will always be someone stronger than you, faster and more technically gifted. The important thing is to go at your own pace. The idea of comparing yourself to others can be a brake on any creative impulse and it is absolutely necessary to get rid of it.
The characteristic of the artist is precisely to be different from the others and I think that it is necessary to cultivate its particularity.
I think those are the two most important things in life, right? Death is unfortunately inevitable and we will all go through it.
But if the life that leads to that certain point isn’t filled with love, then what’s the point of all this? As an artist, the subjects that fascinate me are those on which I wonder and therefore those for which I seek answers.
The CYKLE series has been made around the idea that nature is able to generate new organic forms and patterns which are not regulated by our physical world. I think the round shape came to me quite naturally. The circle represents life and its perpetual movement. The events that revolve around us and through which we pass.
Yes, I sincerely think that we all go through more difficult times than others. Artists having a generally more developed sensitivity, they are even more inclined to navigate between periods of intense euphoria alternated by more chaotic and dark ones.It is therefore reassuring to tell yourself that things are evolving, changing, at least when you are in the trough of the wave. The fact of going through its trials naturally makes you mature.Fortunately, over time, you get used to living with it.
No, I’m probably too Cartesian for that. I think that I create those unreal worlds to be able to immerse myself in them at precise moments that I choose and define. If I was completely absorbed in it I would undoubtedly lose all sense of reality.
