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Marie-Christine Brisson, Illustrator Rep / Associate / Colagene
Marie-Christine knows how to give shape to her ideas, both the creative and entrepreneurial sort. She has a flair for finding custom-made visual solutions, and she has the gift of being able to find the delicate balance between the passions of her illustrators and those of her most demanding clients. Read the section Inspiring Woman of the Grenier aux Nouvelles.

As promised, we are unveiling Hadrien de Visme's portfolio as he joins our team of talented storyboarders/illustrators. Hadrien has worked in the world of Communication and Design as an Art Director in a Parisian agency, and has also dedicated himself to an artistic career in parallel. His inspirations range from comics to minimalist aesthetics and even medieval engravings, allowing him to easily combine the real with the imaginary. His work, with over 13 years of experience, extends to diverse and meticulous domains such as design, media, press, technology, and commerce. We were impressed by his personality, experience, and professionalism, and he is excited to work with you!

Colagene draws your attention here because a new artist will join the team of the Creative Clinic next month. We won't tell you more for the moment, but here is Hadrien, whom we fell in love with for his personality, his experience in artistic direction and his professionalism.

Colagene is more than happy to welcome Jose Casal from Madrid, Spain, in our team of storyboarders/roughmen. He comes to lend us a hand as he has excellent experience in video advertising projects thanks to years of collaboration with major agencies and brands. He lives in Madrid where he works, also has studied in Graphic design and Photography and he has obtained a master in Illustration. He creates storyboard frames to children's illustrations as well as he collaborates with an Arts school where he teaches. His stroke is clean and dynamic so he can achieve images with a lot of impact. He finds inspiration in fantasy, comics and daily things.

At the clinic, Jérôme Mireault is not only an illustrator but also a roughman and storyboarder.  Lot of agencies and several other loyal customers call on him to create dynamic roughs and storyboards! Here an example.

Roughs made by Thomas Stefflbauer for a British clothing brand.

Series of sample presentation roughs created by Eric Caron for Agropur. Roughman and storyboarder, Eric works quickly and with rigor. Clients are always delighted with the final renderings and his involvement. Need some roughs or storyboards? Visit our section.

Colagene is very happy with the arrival of Claude Leduc, roughman and storyboarder of great experience.
With more than thirty years of experience in Quebec, Claude has collaborated with most of Quebec's advertising agencies, as well as with Cirque du Soleil and other international artistic productions. When taking on a mandate, whether in terms of rendering level, atmosphere or degree of finishings, he assigns paramount importance to understanding the concept and client purpose. This translates into a very high success rate when launching or presenting. His mastery of shapes and perspective allows him to exploit advertising concepts brilliantly.

At the clinic, Jérôme Mireault is an illustrator but also a roughman and storyboarder. The production studio L'Éloi called on him this summer to make pre-shoot roughs for their client Korean Air. Discover the before and after ... it's fresh!

The Little Things That Make us Humans: Zigor Samaniego has illustrated a robot in 3D and Eric Caron did the storyboard for an animatics produced by DentsuBos agency. This concept is for a client pitch for Ajinomoto; one of the leaders of the food-processing industry in Japan.

Ross Cuthberg is much in demand, and it's understandable! To see the quality of some roughs and story-boards for brands such as Nespresso, Listerine, Virgin or Embley's. Ross, besides being nice and professional, does 3D. Visit his portfolio Ross 3D.

On the occasion of the world launch preview of the concept car New York of the dealer Genesis Motors, Aaron McConomy, Dan Svatek, Éric Caron et Jérôme Mireault, 4 artists of the team Colagene drew live the guests VIP in the heart of the Old-port of Montreal. The guests were all able to leave with a beautiful original, signed and unique souvenir of this beautiful evening.

Roughs for client's presentation for a famous brand of jewelry, made by Ross Cuthberg.

Dan Svatek, storyboarder for the Clinic is now available full time. Dan is highly appreciated for his characters's style and scenarios for promotional events. He's also popular when it comes to client's presentations for advertising or TV concepts. He can also create live art at events.

Ross is a roughman and  storyboarder very popular. His asset : he knows how to work with all the techniques, from the line drawing of all kinds, also the vectorial to the 3D modelling. Here are examples of his last 3D realizations.

Eric Caron is bringing an advertising TV spot concept to life by illustrating a storyboard for an agency pitch for Subway Canada.

Series of illustrations created by the storyboarder and roughman Dan Svatek for an advertising pitch for Elizabeth Arden’s fragrance.

Series of illustrations of goats made by 20 100 for a workshop presenting various brand of the Lescure fromagerie during a convention. "L'atelier chèvre" (goat workshop) had the musical theme of jazz of the 30s.

Fuelled by comics, advertising and video games, Eric creates alive and direct scenes, armed with his graphic tablet. Through sketches quickly drawn, or more detailed pictures, he puts his lines and colors in the service of the message conveyed by the image. Eric develops visuals with neat atmospheres and subtle lighting, inspired by themes from everyday life to Hollywood blockbusters.

20100 (reads in French "vingt cent", which is not a proper number, but close to the name Vincent) has been drawing ever since he was born... or almost. After 5 years studying at Boulle applied arts school in Paris, he finished his cursus at UQAM (Québec University in Montréal). As a teenager, he was a graffiti artist. He is really passionate about this movement and this technique is perfect for him as well as he enjoys quick, well-done work. His arrival in the rough and storyboard work was natural.

Last May, we made you discover 3D creations by Ross Cuthbert. This month, we share with you his talent as a vector illustrator. Here are some of his latest creations. Many others are to be seen in his portfolio.

In order to cool down the heat, here are illustrated advertising comps by Thomas Stefflbauer for the global event of extreme ice skating race, the Red Bull Crashed Ice.

Promotional event scenes illustrated by Dan Svatek for an advertising pitch.

Here are a few illustrations from storyboarder Dan Svatek. Dan is very appreciated for his characters drawing style and also the atmosphere created in his scenarios such as promotional events illustrations.

With more than 13 years of professional experience in the advertising industry, Ross knows how to adapt his style to clients needs. He masters the 3D, realistic, traditional drawing renderings. We wanted to share with you some of his latest 3D creations. Many more can be seen in his portfolio.

Here is a series of vector style icons illustrations by Ross Cuthbert for an advertising agency's client presentation. Ross's work is usually quite realistic with 3D or traditional hand-drawing renderings.

Swiss agency has chosen Thomas Stefflbauer to do roughs for Skoda spot to accompany advertising concepts presentations.

François Couture, famous roughman and storyboarder in Montreal, had the privilege to have been chosen by ARTV among 13 illustrators to illustrate a poster for one of their TV program. François had to work in a 60's thriller novel style. The illustration will be used on the TV channel website from this week and the 13 posters are exposed at the ARTV center in Places des Arts in Montreal. To learn more about the event: https://www.facebook.com/ARTVstudio

We also showing you few illustrations recently created for the Unis-Editions group in France.

Jérôme Mireault uses his storyboader / roughman style for Sauter society's advertising comps.

Storyboarder and roughman Dan Svatek realized 1 illustration for a pitch for the presentation of a concept for the event promotion of Bioré products, for NEWAD agency.

Camille Corbetto, storyboarder at the Clinic, greatly knows how to meet the demand for presentation roughs for an automotive corporation.

Passionate by comic books and cinema, Camille is an autodidact and has been drawing since forever. With her control of colors and lights, she is able to recreate all sort of environments. Each of her frames is a strong and unique illustration giving life to a large range of atmospheres. Her fresh and vivid style with clear and precise lines fits all tastes!

Rough for the new ad campaign Grimbergen beer made with SidLee Paris agency

Pitch for a cover illustration for the German Business magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

With over 13 years of professional experience in the advertising industry working as a visualizer, Ross's style and application varies to suit the clients needs.

Series of roughs/storyboard for LG electronic.

Series of roughs for Coca-Cola.

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François is a really experienced, talented and versatile illustrator. He excels in many styles of illustration but more specifically in the rough and storyboards. His facility to understand and illustrate the concepts makes him an indispensable person for your visual presentations.

Roughs for GMC

Thomas’ storyboard illustrations merge the whimsical, humorous, and authentic. His storytelling style fuses smart and realistic imagery with a bit of fantasy. Digital rendering allows him to quickly visualize a range of distinct scenarios in the media, design, and commercial/technology spheres.

Head storyboarder for an advertising agency for two years, Daniel is no slouch when it comes to delivering polished drawings for pitches and storyboards. A stylistic chameleon, his draftsmanship ranges from precise realism to comical caricatures. Dan loves human subjects as much as inanimate ones, from beer bottles to bicycles, fruits to footwear, press kits to pressure cookers.