Between the lines.
Here, imagination awaits!
3 /Skills
2001. No millenium bug, no apocalypse.
I’m at university, studying English language and civilization.
One wild night, a former high school friend tells me he’s studying in an art school. We talked art, drawing, but also 3D, graphic design, art history, animation...
It was like an epiphany: Goodbye English language studies, hello animation, arts and fun!
4 /Building
2005. I meet the young woman who will share my life (she’s still there, im’ lucky).
2007. Together with her and two others, we set up a communication agency in Lyon.
A 12-year journey. We laughed. We partied. We met amazing people. We won. We lost. We made mistakes. But above all, we’ve (almost always) listened to each others.
2018. Marie and I lose our first son during the pregnancy. A storm breaks. Life and death collide.
Clean slate. Our co-owned agency has had its days…
2019. Independence. I’m going freelance! The coolest job in the world!
2020. I become a dad for the second time. The real coolest job in the world!
1/Adrenaline
It’s the 1980s. I’m a kid. Down the block, me and my friends got up to all kinds of trouble: We’d set off fireworks near the local factory just to make workers crazy. Dare each other into stupid, risky challenges and in between two football matches, using Nicolas’ mother’s camcorder, we filmed our own version of Nightmare on Elm Street.
Life was amazingly dense, never planned and full of interactions!
But when I was by myself, it’s always with some paper and colored pencils that i spent my time.
2 /Creative spark
Now it’s the 1990s. I grew up. Drawing became my way to measure myself against others
Between my cousin and me, it’s always the same competition: who could mimic Akira Toriyama’s line the best? Time flys a bit more and suddenly, I’m middle school’s unofficial class caricaturist, making everyone laugh.
Then around 15, Hip-Hop hit me really hard. Rap swept me away. Graffiti fascinated me.
I tried it for a short while. The thrill was there, but the skill... less so. Spray cans are hard to master!
So I moved on. Yet I know every wall of Lyon and every name on them.