Illustration Workshop in Aleppo

In March , David Habchy and I were invited to give an illustration workshop in 

Aleppo along with another syrian illustrator, the lovely Nadine Kaadan.

Yes , Syria wasnt the most stable country to be in at that time.

But being there couldnt have felt more right .

We spent 4 days with incredibly talented people that gave us the best of their potentials .

This passionate exchange made of this  workshop a very unique experience to all of us.

Heres a summary of what we did.

                                   

                                   

Bank Audi TVC

I was recently comissioned to work on an animated TVC  , for Bank Audi.

The pitch was given by the ad agency , Leo Burnett .

I worked on the illustrations/ artistic direction , and my talented buddy Avak Avakian animated  the balloon.

Like every other project done for advertising , It had to be wrapped up in a week .

But impossible deadlines give out interesting results sometimes .

Here's the colorboard

you can catch it on Tv and here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9v6eRPRjQ&feature=youtu.be

woman in the moon

I got asked to design a poster for a performance .

This time, I felt like experimenting with different mediums and try out "linogravure". 

( Thanks to the lovely talented illustrator , Clemence Albertus, who taught me this medium during my stay in France last week.)

So this medium requires the material , the special paint , the carving tools and the plaques.

You first have to sketch out your drawing on the plaque and then carve it out  .

The result is so raw and interesting , no photoshop effect can give you that.

The best part is the randomness which gives a different print every time .

After that comes the conventional photoshop part , 

Defining the illustration and the colors  .

 Thank you to my lovelies , David Habchy for the early morning guidance and Lara Samaha 

for helping me design the layout in the back of the calender !

                               

 Heres the flyer of the performance designed as a lunar calender .

Il also be doing Vjing at the perfomance .

I Will be posting some pictures soon 

If you're around beirut, do pass by and see the performance its running till sunday.

"ALEF" Short Film

'ALEF" is an NGO against torture in the prisons in Lebanon . 

We were comissioned to make a short film promoting their cause. 

I teamed up with the director Talal Khoury , and the producer Francois Monayer and animator Avak Avakian 

to create this short film that was later projected in movie theaters and festivals.

I was  in charge of the artistic direction of the animated sequence .

 Heres a few pictures of the making of. 

The interesting part of this work was taking part of the shoot .

We as animators had to respect the constrictions of the shots taken 

and think beforehand how to work our animation accordingly.

This is the cut version of the film


and you can watch the whole film here :

Peu pitch

Here are some illustrations I've done for a recent pitch 

Old illustrations I dug up from a personal project i began with my sister a year ago.

They are a series of holiday cards based on "lebanese sayings "

I Should find time and motivation to carry through with this project.

yet another one goes...

Never been fond of feline creatures 

until I  met 
Suzie Q