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Tabadol - Mar2it Tari2
During the month of November, I met 10 amazing artists from France and Lebanon.
At the beginning of the project, I knew only one of them but i ended up having 10 friends: Angela, Raghda, Maryam, Dana, Azza, Brice, Clemence, Jeanne, Dianne and Ronan.
The project is called "Mar2it Tari2" and the association behing it is Tabadol. This is their second project between Lebanon and France, and this year the theme was "street".
In this workshop, there s no leader; everyone is here to exchange their knowledge and each idea is a potential project. So we spent the first two weeks doing workshops, each one in his domain, and we did a lot of applications as well based on what we learned. I suggested to the group the stop motion technique, and working with artists from different disciplines made me explore a lot this technique. We used to shoot every day for an hour or two, a short stop motion with no story line; we explore the streets, we find a spot and we do it !
I don't mid now spending an hour a day doing this because it s just like a therapy :)
here is the result of all the scenes we shot during the month of November.
The movie was part of a show we did for 2 days in Beirut. "Mar2it Tari2" was not a play, nor a dance show; it was a parade in the streets of Hamra, Beirut where the audience walks and explore the city from a different perspective and spirit. This was seriously dreamy, surreal specially with the great audience we had. This video edited by Jeanne Robert, document what happened during two days in Beirut !
I took some photos of the show so u can enjoy few moments that i will never forget !
Dianne, Jeanne, 2 books and a sofa surrounded by cars, police and the audience.
Les Bouffons, a married couple, lead the audience around the different locations where the show happens, and we blocked the streets so the audience can cross, and we painted some additional pedestrians passage. I hope we can keep them and make cars respect them one day !
the beautiful audience with whom we shared some videos at the end of the parade. Thanks everyone for being here and i hope this post will transmit a bit of what happened for all of you,
learning about Tabadol for the first time :) You can check other photos from "Tabadol" on this link: http://www.behance.net/gallery/TABADOL-2011/2649645
Now we will continue this project in Lyon, France in February 2012. I m so excited to discover this city and to work again with the great team and will keep you posted what will happen in Lyon :)
Freez - Refresh, Restart.
and here is the first AD i direct that includes real footage, actors, studios, and animation; it is the new corporate TVC for Freez drink.
Credits:
Client: Kassatly Chtaura
Creative Director: Nathalie Masri
Director: David Habchy
Animation Director: David Habchy
Strategic Planner: Khalil Khatib
Executive Producer: Nathalie Masri
Production Manager: Sofia Moussa
Art Director & Layout Designer: David Habchy
DOP: Nadim Sawma
Animation & Modeling: Emile Jalkh, Avak Avakian, Ashley Choukeir
Colorist: Roy Loutfallah
Editing: Wajdi Elian, David Habchy
Music: Karim Khneisser
This was indeed a big challenge for me. I knew before all aspects of real footage and compositing using chroma but i never tried it all together. working with a group of professional talented people made everything easier than i expected; and again gave me the energy and the will to handle bigger projects with lots of risks.
Thanks for all the lovely people who worked on this project; all the technicians, actors, animators, and all the rest of the crew...
I hope you ll enjoy it and i m ready to hear your feedback.
This s my first project of its kind and i want to learn more :)
PICON
This is another illustrated and animated campaign with agency Leo Burnett Beirut.
The client is Picon, and it is the back to school promo entitled "a2wa rass bi Lebnein" :)
it s a competition on Picon's website that challenges the kids knowledge about Lebanon.
Here are the key visuals i did for the campaign.
i had to do all the elements in the illustrations with a simple contour line so the production team can add die-cuts easily, specially that part of the campaign is to do pop-up stands in supermarkets.
Just after the visuals, we moved to the animated TVC Ad. I did the animation together with the great Ashley Choukeir :) tx Ash.
Enjoy the animation and i hope you like the project :)
Buzz - Na3eem B3ayneh
Name: Na3eem B3ayneh
Problem : Na3eem can no longer look into the eyes of his friends (Ma 2elo 3ein). His girlfriend is taking up all his time and he can't stand it anymore!
Advice: Drink Buzz :)
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Agency: Tony Khoueiry & Nathalie Masri
Client: Kassatly Chtaura Buzz
Character Modeling & Animation: Ashley Phebe Choukeir
Layout Design & Animation : David Habchy
Audio: Amadeus Awad
check a lower resolution movie here on Youtube.
Buzz - Giselle Nasale
Name: Gizelle Nasale
Age : 20 to 30 years
Number of plastic surgeries: Unlimited
Nationality: Lebanese
Sex: yes
Problem : Gizelle is extremely pissed off because despite the numerous surgeries she's done, she can't seem to find a guy!
Advice: Drink Buzz :)
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Agency: Tony Khoueiry & Nathalie Masri
Client: Kassatly Chtaura Buzz
Character Modeling & Animation: Ashley Phebe Choukeir
Layout Design & Animation : David Habchy
Audio: Amadeus Awad
check a lower resolution movie here on Youtube
Beyroutes - A Guide To Beirut
"Beyroutes", the intimate guide book for Beirut, is the result of a one week workshop that involved illustrators, photographers, journalists and architects from Lebanon and Holland. the project was initiated by Studio Beirut and supported by Partizian Publik, Archis and Pearl Foundation. We worked in groups to cover 4 geographical areas in Beirut; Hamra, Ashrafieh, Bourj Hammoud and Dahye.
Dahye in 2006.
“Ahlan wa Sahlan” to Dahyeh: Welcome to Dahyeh… to you and was for me too, my very own first time, a Lebanese animator and illustrator, never acquainted with the actual reality of Dahyeh, a tourist in my own land. Once down there, I would say Dahyeh resembles the playfield inside a Flipper game… This being said, of course I related myself to that little shiny ball, that is in constant movement, propelled back and forth by any encounter with the switches and buttons! You as a tourist, are the same in Dahyeh, you are as shiny and glowing as an intruder could be!! You are of course lost, with no notion of direction, bumping back and forth from one checkpoint and landmark to another, which of course fill this field up… Being in Dahyeh is being in a state of constant agitation and activity, for you can never settle in one place. But no matter how lost you will be, by the end of the day you are out, merely because there are no hotels to house you here!
an illustration for a story we heard about a nude photographer in Dahye. strange job in a conservative region.
جونيه ٢١-٤-٢٠١٠
a walk in Jounieh, Lebanon in the early morning. it was raining during the night, the morning looks so fresh.
Kassatly Chtaura apple juice TVC
Nathalie Masri & Tony Khoueiry, a fresh young energetic team ;) that worked a lot in advertising, created an independent agency and this is one of their first projects. they did the concept of this campaign and asked me to do the animation. let me say it was really fun working with them !
this year, i decided to focus more on the group work, specially in the illustration part. Ghadi Ghosn, or "king of ogres" helped me in the visuals; he drew the elements and inked them. i did the color rendering, the composition and character design and prepared them for animation. Ashley Choukeir , akid, took all the thousand layers and animated them with a smile on her face :) she s amazing ! we finished the animation and we moved to the music part. Karim Khneisser, a talented young composer, did the music in his studio somewhere in the streets of Achrafieh :) Christelle Franca, assisted in the process and we thank her for her positive energy always !
wbass ! I hope u like it.
za second Book
the second book for "Haltabees" is now OUT :) it s entitled "حلتبيس حلتبيس : أشعار من سمسم وخيار" and it s a poetry book for children about Love written by Rania Zaghir and published by al Khayyat al saghir. it s available in Arche de Noe library in Hamra and soon will be available in other libraries. I attached some photos of the book and illustrations. enjoy :)
Making of Haltabees Poetry Book
as usual, the best part for me, is to share the making of the book with you :)
this book is the second book in the series "Haltabees" so i used the same mixed media technique that i used in the first book. however, the color palette is brighter and less contrasty.
a basic version of spread 1 inside the book. later, i changed the hierarchy of the elements to give more importance to the "Kebbe", a traditional lebanese food item. i added more depth to the illustration by adding the blurred background and the light with uniform shadows on all other elements.
in spread 2, "Abd l Halim Hafez" was mentioned in the text and i was lucky to have bought before this disc from an old library in Hamra so i took a photo with the sesame background. however, i was not happy with the foam effect.
chasing balloons in the studio was hectic. but at the end, i managed to avoid blurry photos. tx Kevin :)
spread 2 done & dedicated to mOmO and Egypt :)
i wanted to illustrate a telephone so i used this vintage phonebook that i bought for free from Jounieh, where i live :) i changed the original latin numbers into arabic numbers with a twist of love.
taking photos of Haltabees was a main step in the process, but it was harder this time coz Haltabees, the clay character is getting older so the clay is becoming dryer :s
i used different patterns from gift wrapping for the background of the illustrations.
some Luxury objects found in a shop called "Tansa" in Jounieh. the owner of this shop was not sure about my interest in Dentelles :)
to the right, the making of the castle done from cardboard and clay.
za parents checking the printed book but it seems they are more happy with the camera than the book.
the biggest assistant ever Mr. Pierre Boutros.
a BIG thank you for Hanane Kai who assisted me in the research and illustrations for this book. i love u Hannouch !
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