Sketchtravel is a unique project started by two illustrators, Dice Tsutsumi from Japan and Gérald Guerlais from France. The idea is very simple : a sketchbook of approximately 60 pages, gave hand to hand by artists all around the world. Each artist (cartoonist, illustrator, animator...) fill a page with an original artwork. Among these talented people, you can find some "stars" like Rebecca Dautremer (a very famous illustrator in France), Hayao Miyazaki or Bill Plympton.

You may have seen Super 8, the great film by J.J Abrams, released in France a few weeks ago. I discovered today the concept art designed for the movie production by Jamie Rama, and they are just stunning. The pictures are very very well realisaed, but the most sensational is the way the movie looks like these pictures. If you remember some scenes of the film you can easily find them into these artworks.
More pictures in the rest of this post !

French transmedia artist Ana Dess chose Kaam collective, based in Valence, France, to realise the music video for her song 'Elle demeure'. The song tells the story of a house. It's Hélène Ducrocq (I wrote some articles about her work here and here) who realised this video, and the result is just amazing. It uses an animation technique called Stratastencil which consists on animating paper sheets cuted and put on perspective. The effect is very special and give the movie a great aspect (even if I think it's pretty exhausting to make).
A part of the movie is also realised with the traditionnal stop-motion technique, made by transforming and moving real objects.

Read the rest of this post to watch the making of and more pictures !