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Take a look at this video. The booth where I was appears on the right, with the two video projectors which light the walls. you should notice the ZBrush logo on the top right. How can you do your work in such conditions?? with so much noise!

It was really cool to see these guys in the tradeshow with all their energy! And just after, they came to our booth to do the same. I hope they will be back this next year!

I’m back from the japan Expo tradeshow (180 000 visitors expected!) and this edition has been a real success! If you read the french, I advise you to read the french version of this post which have more details!

This year, we had a booth shared with Sculpteo, a 3D printing company and a 3D color printer from ZCorp (Z650). It has been a good way to do presentation from virtual to real, with sculpted objects made in ZBrush and then, 3D prints!

I also learn a lot of new things related to 3D printing, which will be a great help for future productions…. and tutorials!

Our booth!

The crowd was impressive, especially on saturday, with a good mix between girls and boys (55% / 45% I think) with nice cosplay to look at :p Unfortunately, I didn’t really have a lot of time to visit the trade show as we were only two on the booth for the Pixologic side. But, well.. it’s my 5th Japan Expo, then I guess I didn’t miss something huge (perhaps a sign from Tsukasa Hojo…)

Some Cat's Eye girls

The crowd!

We also had on the booth some speed sculpting done by Bibouik, Pam / Pandorabox and Cyril, in addition to my speed sculpting and demos. I also did a comic character… a dog! with the artist beside me. I’ll do a dedicated post later as it was very interesting!

But the real crazy aspect was the printer on the booth. It has been a real magnet for visitors, to see how easy is to sculpt with ZBrush and then, how easy it was to have your own 3D models in your hands. Then it has been a good opportunity to have some of my models and speed sculpting printed! I also had my Mangalore (from the movie the Fifth Element) and Liu Lin models printed in 30cms height!!

Some sculpt-on-booth models. Sorry for the poor quality of the photo...

Liu Lin and the Mangalore. In the middle, a 15cms height robot

Hey, it's me!! Photo by Benoit Rogez from 3DVF.com

During the tradeshow, I recorded the printing process. Sorry for the poor quality and the captions are in french…

Then, it has been a very good tradeshow, a lot of cool visitors which were peased to discover ZBrush and the 3D printing, with a lot of questions. I hope to see you next year at this tradeshow!

And to finish, a short gallery. Sorry, the pictures comments are in french !

For the 5th time, I will be at Japan Expo this year, on the Pixologic booth to do live presentation of ZBrush. Japan Expo is a real large event with 180 000 visitors expected this year!

For this new edition, Pixologic decided with our partners Wacom and Sculpteo to do everything big! We are sharing the same booth to do a full presentation from 2D to “real” 3D: Create a concept in 2D on a Wacom pentablet, Sculpt it in ZBrush in 3D and then… print it directly with the help of Sculpteo! Yes, we will have a ZCorp Z650 3D color printer on our booth!

Then come and say hello at our booth, ask for help on ZBrush and if you want to demonstrate your skills, feel free to do it, even in live in front of everybody!

If you want to visit us, the tradeshow will be from July 1st to July 4th in Villepinte, in the north of Paris. We are in the booth BH 38 and if you are looking at me, ask from Thomas from Pixologic on the booth, we are three Thomas!

This is a close up of the 3D printing. It’s a small one, then some details are missing. We should have the same but in 30cms height, which will be a lot better

Retrouvez le communiqué de presse commun de Sculpteo et Pixologic dans la suite du billet.

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For the 4th time, I’ll be in the MIFA tradeshow in Annecy, south east of france, in the middle of the Alpes montains, not far from Switzerland. This professional tradeshow is one of the best one in france with a lot of nice people to meet, a lot of companies from all other the world and also schools.

During the three days, I’ll be on the Wacom booth doing ZBrush demonstrations, live improvisation and answering questions. Then, if you are around, you can come at the booth and say hello!

More about the MIFA.

Mmmh, testing the iPhone publishing with the WordPress App

I also attached some photos of my desk at the office !

Edit : bon, l’application est supra lente, ça prend des secondes pour passer d’un menu à l’autre, et ajouter des photos, j’en parle même pas…

This is something that you don’t have to miss! Gnomon just announced their new online Master Classes!

During two weeks, the best artists of the 2D/3D/VFX industry will do a 2-3 hours online training, with various subjects like:

• Digital Female Character Design and Creation
• Sculpting Comic Book Statues and Maquettes
• The Digital Creature Creation Pipeline
• etc…
  

The cost is only $295 for the 16 classes which is around $18 per class! More information on the Gnomon website.

I will do my best to follow these Master Classes!

Sculpting Comic Book Statues and Maquettes

Me, doing a Zbrush demonstration. Photo by Shadows.fr

As announced previously, I’ve been at the Japan Expo 10th Impact, the first Japan culture tradeshow in Europe. I spent almost all my time on the Wacom booth doing ZBrush demonstrations but also answering the questions of the visitors. As usual, a lot of people, and sometime.. too much people! The weather was really sunny then, it was terribly hot in the Hall! As usual, it’s a very interesting tradeshow with a lot of artists to meet and this year, I had the opportunity to talk more and more about 3D figures and 3D printing. This is some photos, I won’t comment a lot this tradeshow in the english version of this post, in opposition to the french one

En pleine démo ZBrush. Photo Shadows.fr

(For french readers: merci de passer en langue française, le billet est bien plus long !)

If you are near Paris, I will be at the Japan-Expo tradeshow, from July 2nd to July 5th, for livre demonstrations of ZBrush on the Wacom Booth. Then if you want to see crazy demonstration of ZBrush, ask your question, do some contests and discover how to build your own 3D figures and prepare them for printing, then, you know where it is.

Come on, France is not too far!

For those of you who missed the modo 401 presentation in Paris, this is a short review of this event with some photos. It has been a good opportunity to talk with the Luxology team, their guest and as you may guess, all the people which came for this road tour!

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As I said in the previous post, I had a 3 day trip in Annecy, a pretty city in France, near Switzerland/Geneve, as you will be able to see in images below.

This tradeshow is a very important one for all the animation market, from 2D to 3D, and it is very professional. It may be one of the most interested tradeshow in france for this market: very professional organization, international companies, interested visitors and more.

Click on the read more link to read my feedback!

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