http://www.couleur.tv/en couleur.tv is a video post production studio based in montreal and specialising in 2D and 3D animation, special effects and motion design for ads and film. en-ca couleur.tv francis@couleur.tv
Since its foundation in 2007, couleur.tv has established itself as one of the most sought for companies in montreal's web, tv and cinema's postproduction scene. With capabilities in 2D and 3D animation & motion design as well as special effects.

+ To see the list of projects that were nominated or won prizes, click here. ]]>
Metaphorical animation, depicting the life of Buckminster Fuller.

Direction : Valérie Galarneau
Production: Valérie Galarneau
Illustration et A.D. : Francis Gélinas & Jean-François Gauthier
3D modelling : Lorien Routhier, Jean-Fraçois Gauthier
Compositing : Francis Gélinas
Animation : Lorien Routhier et Francis Gélinas ]]>
Stop motion evocating the passage of life.

Direction : Francis Gélinas
Production: Cilia Sawadogo, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
A.D. & D.O.P. : Francis Gélinas
Puppet Animation : Francis Gélinas, George Ayeh Opare
Editing & compositing : Francis Gélinas
Camera: George Ayeh Opare, Francis Gélinas, Marie-An Nguyen
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Animations 3D pour la soirée du Gala Artis.

D.A. : Mélanie Wallace
Modélisation 3D : Lorien Routhier et Jean-François Gauthier
Éclairage et rendu: Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing & animation : Francis Gélinas
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2D / stop motion animations illustrating moments of the film.

Direction : Léa Pool
Production: Ravida Din
Illustration : Francis Gélinas
3D Modeling : Lorien Routhier, Francis Gélinas
Compositing & animation : Francis Gélinas

The film premiered at the TIFF and has received excellent critiques ever since. ]]>
Canadian installation at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai 2010

Direction : Félix & Paul
3D Imagery : Jean-François Gauthier
2D Imagery : Augustin Tougas
Compositing : Paul Raphaël
A Cirque du Soleil production]]>
Canadian installation at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai 2010

Direction : Félix & Paul
3D Imagery : Jean-François Gauthier
2D Imagery : Augustin Tougas
Compositing : Paul Raphaël
A Cirque du Soleil production]]>
Cirque du Soleil add. The clay like city landscape is done in 3D.

Direction : Félix & Paul
3D Imagery : Jean-François Gauthier
2D Imagery : Augustin Tougas
Compositing : Paul Raphaël
A Cirque du Soleil production]]>
Another visually creative short by Félix & Paul.

Direction : Félix & Paul
3D Imagery : Jean-François Gauthier
2D Imagery : Augustin Tougas
Compositing : Paul Raphaël
A Cirque du Soleil production]]>
TV ad for Coke with a look of 2d / stop motion animation

Direction : Félix & Paul
3D Modeling : Lorien Routhier et Jean-François Gauthier
Rigging : Lorien Routhier et Jean-François Gauthier
Textures : Francis Gélinas et Jean-François Gauthier
Shading, lighting and rendering : Jean-François Gauthier
Animation : Francis Gélinas
Camera trackign : Jean-François Morissette
Rotoscopy : Fabien Dostie, Karim Touré
Compositing : Paul Raphaël]]>
Volkswagen Ad with a 2D / cartboard look

Direction : Félix & Paul
Art Direction : Augustin Tougas
3D Modeling : Lorien Routhier et Jean-François Gauthier
Shading & Textures : Francis Gélinas et Jean-François Gauthier
Lighting & render : Jean-François Gauthier
Animation : Francis Gélinas, Lorien Routhier
Compositing : Paul Raphaël]]>
Axa Insurances ad. A mix of live action and 3D environment

Direction : Félix & Paul
Art Direction : Augustin Tougas et Félix & Paul
Modeling 3D : Lorien Routhier et Jean-François Gauthier
Shading & Textures : Jean-François Gauthier
Lighting & render : Jean-François Gauthier
Animation :Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing : Paul Raphaël]]>
2D et 2.5D Animations made for the festival Montréal en Lumière 2011

Direction & Art Direction : Francis Gélinas
Illustrations: Francis Gélinas, Samantha Leriche-Gionet
Animation : Marjan Farsad, Francis Gélinas, Fabien Dostie, Alexandre Pelletier
Compositing : Francis Gélinas]]>
Interactive Ad for an online contest

Direction : Félix & Paul
Art Direction : Augustin Tougas
Modeling : Lorien Routhier et Jean-François Gauthier
Shading & Texturse : Jean-François Gauthier
Lighting & render : Jean-François Gauthier
Animation : Francis Gélinas et Lorien Routhier
Compositing : Paul Raphaël et Francis Gélinas]]>
Anti-tobacco add for De Facto

Direction : Félix & Paul
Art Direction : Augustin Tougas et Félix & Paul
3D Modeling : Lorien Routhier,t Jean-François Gauthier
Shading & Texturse : Francis Gélinas et Jean-François Gauthier
Lighting and render : Francis Gélinas, Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing : Paul Raphaël]]>
Humoristic add for a european insurance company.

+ Winner of a Eurobest 2010 Gold in the Media category
+ Winner of a Eurobest 2010 Silver in the Promo & Activation category

Direction : Félix & Paul
Art Direction : Augustin Tougas, Félix & Paul
Matte painting : Augustin Tougas
3D Modeling : Lorien Routhier, Jean-François Gauthier
Shading & Texturse : Jean-François Gauthier
Lighting and render : Jean-François Gauthier
Animation : Jonathan Pépin-Gagné, Gregory Bony
Dynamics & special effects : Lorien Routhier, Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing : Paul Raphaël]]>
Sacrée montagne is an onligne documentary produced by the NFB. Under the artistic supervision of the Departement, we have modelled and animated 7 places of the mount-royal.

You can launch the documentary by clicking here

+ The site has been shown on Communication Arts
+ It won a FWA
+ It won a Grafika Great Prize in electronic medias.
+ It also won a Applied Arts

3D Modelling: Lorien routhier, Jean-François Gauthier
Textures: Francis Gélinas, Jean-Fraçois Gauthier
Lighting and render: Jean-François Gauthier
Matte painting & compositing: Francis Gélinas]]>
Bird of Tokyo's stereoscopic Vidéoclip for the song "The saddest thing".

Direction & compositing: Félix et Paul
Artistic direction and matte painting: Augustin Tougas
3D Production:Jean-François Gauthier, Lorien Routhier]]>
A little boy beat's up a mean dragon then buys himself parents with the money he won. More than the story itself, it's the very cute and surprising narration done two 3 and 5 years old kids that makes this film just adorable.
2D animated in a 3D software.

+ The film was featured in festivals all around the world and has won the "viewers choice award" at Fantasia's Fantastique Weekend 2010 .

Direction, animation and illustration: Francis Gélinas
Secondary animation and rigging: Lorien Routhier
Audio editing: Jean-François Bertrand Sauvé
Sound mix: Stephan Rich
Music score: Denis Chartrand
Story and narration: Amiel Gélinas & Miko Gélinas]]>
videoclip made using stop motion animation for the band Blissa. The bags (pre-animated using brushes) were replaced one by one while the comedians were staying still during the shoot. There is absolutely no computer animations in this whole clip.

+ The clip won "Best music video" at the Animafrik animation festival in Ghana.

Artistic direction and direction: Francis Gélinas
Comedians: Karim Touré, Catherine Martel, Jonathan Pépin
Accessories: Francine Deschamps, Julie Vallée Léger, Maude Ledoux
Direction of Photography: Étienne Boilard
Concept: Julie Valée Léger, Francis Gélinas]]>
Opening credit animation for "Le canal masqué" television show on Télé Québec.

Concept: Francis Gélinas, Jean-François Gauthier
Direction: Francis Gélinas, Jean-François Gauthier
Animation:Francis Gélinas, Lorien Routhier
Modeling: Jean-François Gauthier, Lorien Routhier
Lighting and renders: Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing: Francis Gélinas]]>
Interresting challenge for the 3D aspect: create elements that have the look and feel of drawings.

Direction : Félix & Paul
3D : Jean-François Gauthier
Artistic direction and matte painting: Augustin Tougas
Animation of "the hand": Gregory Bony.]]>
Three 2009 Canada saving bonds adds.

Direction : Félix & Paul
Art Direction: Augustin Tougas, Félix & Paul
Matte painting : Augustin Tougas
3D Modeling : Jean-François Gauthier
Shading & Textures : Jean-François Gauthier
Lighting and render : Jean-François Gauthier
Animation : Gregory Bony
Dynamiques and special effects : Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing : Paul Raphaël]]>
Création and compositing of the "Le maître du grill" tv show logo animation playing on Zeste cable television.

Modeling: Lorien Routhier, Jean-François Gauthier
Design & compositing: Francis Gélinas
Lighting and rendering: Jean-François Gauthier
On-line editor: Fabien Dostie
Direction: Jean-Philippe "Parish" Parizeau]]>
Big screen animations for the 2009 and 2010 seasons of l'impact seen in l'Impact soccer stadium.

Textures and modeling: Lorien Routhier, Jean-François Gauthier
Animation & compositing: Francis Gélinas
Rigging: Jean-François Gauthier, Lorien Routhier
Sound editing: Jean-François Bertrand Sauvé
Direction: Francis Gélinas, Jean-François Gauthier]]>
Advertisement for Planète Mazda car dealership, near Blainville. Everything but the concept was done at couleur.tv.

Direction Francis Gélinas, Jean-François Gauthier
Modeling: Jean-François Gauthier, Lorien Routhier
Animation: Francis Gélinas
Lighting and rendering: Jean-François Gauthier
Matte painting: Francis Gélinas
Compositing, Jean-François Gauthier, Francis Gélinas]]>
Animation and stop motion for the store Petite rebelle's website (petiterebelle.ca).The client gave us total creative freedom! The environements and the creatures were created using a "blown ink" technique which was then animated in Maya and After Effects.

director, animator and artistic direction: Francis Gélinas
Rigging: Lorien Routhier
Music: Pawa Up First, album Introducing New Details, track Cycles.]]>
Opening and end credits for a mini cooking show about pork.

Artistic direction: Stéphanie Hauschild for DesAtrs Communications
Producer: Jean-Phillippe Brisson for La Fabrique d'Images
Animation Concept, direction and compositing: Francis Gélinas
Modélisation, rigging and animation: Lorien Routhier]]>
Videoclip for the band Blissa - Imaginocide's song.
Entirely filmed on greenscreen, camera motion, crowds and lights were added in post.

Direction, animation and compositing: Francis Gélinas
Camera: Fabien Dostie]]>
Animations for Desjardins's website www.monprofilvert.com (not online anymore). the site is a poll about environment where the user's choices affects the animations.

Animation: Francis Gélinas, Gregory Bony
Modeling, Rigging, lighting and render: Jean-François Gauthier]]>
Fun animations for the clothing store / Quebec designers "Belle et Rebelle" (belleetrebelle.ca). the website design is also couleur.tv. The models were all shot over greenscreen then composited in after effects.

Direction, animation, photography et artistic direction: Francis Gélinas
Music: RH Factor, Song: Forget Regret]]>
Originally conceived for an interactive website, then a banner, The 3D character had so much succes that he was later brought to the big screen.

Prizes won:
+ Créa 2010 - Promotional websites.
+ Créa 2010 - Online advertisement.
+ Créa 2010 - Online campaign.

Modeling: Lorien Routhier, Jean-François Gauthier
Animation: Gregory Bony, Francis Gélinas
Lights and rendering: Jean-François Gauthier
Direction: Francis Gélinas, Jean-François Gauthier]]>
The Dodge Chrystler 2007 countdown.

+ Recipient of the :Houston Worldfest Gold Remi Award TV commercial award / Retail Buck Creatifs / BBDO 2008

Animation and compositing: Francis Gélinas
Artistic direction: Nicolas Drolet]]>
Animation displaying the winning designs from the Dyson canada countest. Limitation: we had tu use the logo "?".

Direction and animation: Francis Gélinas]]>
Fluids animation for an online interactive ad. when hovering over the banner, the internaut floods the webpage with sweat and tears.

Fluids, lighting and render: Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing and motion design: Francis Gélinas]]>
Voken and big box that gets animated when the user hovers over it with the mouse.

Modélisation, animation, shading and rendering: Francis Gélinas]]>
Various animations for the pool and fitness giant. Mix of CGI and greenscreen images.

Concept and Screenwriting: Productions Auriga
Animation:Francis Gélinas
Modeling: Jean-François Gauthier, Lorien Routhier, Stéphanie Laberge
Lighting and renders: Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing: Francis Gélinas
Artistic direction & Matte Painting: Francis Gélinas]]>
Mix of 3D, video and matchmoving for Frame Studio's demo reel.

Modeling: Jean-François Gauthier
Textures: Jean-François Gauthier, Francis Gélinas
Lighting and special effectse: Jean-François Gauthier
Compositing: Francis Gélinas
Direction: Mathieu Favreau]]>
3D Animation for L'oréal.

Modeling and animation: Lorien Routhier
Textures, shading and lighting: Francis Gélinas]]>
3D Animation of a goose over a still picture background. the goose flyes outside of the banner's frame when the mouse hovers over it.

Animation: Francis Gélinas, Grégory Bony
Lights, renders and compositing: Francis Gélinas
Rigging: Lorien Routhier
Modeling and textures: DeShed]]>
Animated Rogers logos for various ads.

Animation: Francis Gélinas
Lighting, shading, textures & render: Jean-François Gauthier, Francis Gélinas
Compositing: Francis Gélinas
Rigging: Lorien Routhier
Modeling: Lorien Routhier, Jean-François Gauthierd]]>
Interactive online ad, The user makes himself a coffee according to the options on which he clicks on. The coffe cup comes flying over the internaut's page.3D and video mix. The dissapearing elements (logo.) are added by flash.

+ Winner of the Applied Arts in interactive medias prize]]>
Videoclip for the band Vulgaires Machins's "Être un comme" song.

Direction & compositing: Félix et Paul
Production: Sach Baylin-Stern
Artistic direction.: Augustin Tougas
3D Production:Jean-François Gauthier
Dir. pf Photography: Ethienne Boilard
Prod. Dir.: Kim St-Pierre]]>