Summer time

New York

Let's Dance in animation

Following the photo project Let's Dance, I though these pictures would make a perfect movie clip since they were all shot in the same way.

Without further wait, here's the movie

Let's Dance

For these photos, I wanted to have fun.
I wanted a project that would let me step away from serious art project.
I also choose to create a game with the viewer: He would see a different project depending on the distance he would have with it. Far away from the photos, he would see small forms, almost like music notes in this giant grid and then, closer, he would make out different people dancing in their own special way.

here's the presentation (in reality every picture are 8" x 10", so the project actually take an entire wall). If you click on it you can see it larger.

And here's some of my favorites

Golden age of portraits

For this photo project, I wanted to recreate the glamor portraits from the golden age of Hollywood (pictured below and on the right)

I love this odd stare on their face and this glamor glow that we don't see on portraits anymore, not that it should come back. That said, I was interested to work with this look, but with a modern twist: having models posed like the stars used too with their every day clothes.

So here's the prints

(small and medium formats)

B7

In my technical drawing class, I had to design and construct a toy made out of wood. I was inspired by one of Bombardier first snowmobile called B7 (pictured on the right).

here's the first draft

here's the plans

And here's the toy

B7

bye Marie-Pierre Chapuis

2007

Wood, Glue

6" x 12" x 6"

I also thought of a mechanism for the skis

Apollo Blue

For this project we had a wood board of 24” x 60” with wood borders all around it. Our goal was to create, with some extra wood sticks, a dynamic grid with some visual impact.

My idea was to recreate the sky in a synthesized and, perhaps, naive manner. That’s why I’ve called it Apollo Blue.

 Here's the sketch

At first, I wanted a horizontal presentation. It’s only after I’ve put it vertically against a wall to save space in the studio that I realized how the dynamics of the painting was more powerful and much more interesting that way.

Here's the painting

Apollo Blue

By Marie-Pierre Chapuis

2006

Wood, paper, paint

24" x 60"

 

hallway

hopeful pilot

student film set 2007

friendship

Manue and Chloé

clown in action

Those ones were taken during a student movie set in 2007