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🎞️✂️ Partie 4/5 : Découvrez le processus magique derrière la création d’un court métrage en stop-motion ! J’ai consacré beaucoup de temps à créer un décor réaliste et j’ai eu la chance de trouver quelques accessoires de créateurs qui ont vraiment donné vie à l’ensemble. Un grand merci aux collaborateurs pour leurs superbes accessoires qui ont aidé a donné vie à mon ensemble. ✨🛠️

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Partie 3/5: Expliquer le stop-motion aux petits, tout un art ! 🎥👧👦 Bien que l’entretien ait été raccourci pour des raisons de temps, je veux mettre en lumière mon équipe extraordinaire qui n’apparaît pas ici: Notamment Peggy Arel qui a animé avec une grâce sans fin, Daniel Baker qui a affronté l’enfer pour mouler mes marionnettes, et John-Daniel Arauz qui a méticuleusement tout réparer en post. 👯‍♀️💪

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Partie 2/5 Rencontrez Charlie & Algor : le duo qui explore avec humour les défis de notre ère numérique ! 🐶📱C’était super cool de créer des personnages attachant qui collent bien à l’univers de l’internet 🛜. Si vos petits Québécois de 6 à 12 ans veulent en savoir plus sur la trousse éducative liée à ce film, n’hésitez pas à contacter le Centre Vox - ils peuvent voir avec l’école de vos enfants pour intégrer leur programme!

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Partie 1/5 : Je m’appelle Alexandra Lemay 🙋🏻‍♀️! Je suis ravie de partager avec vous un entretien que j’ai fait avec le Centre VOX. Découvrez ‘Le chien a mangé mes devoirs’ 🐶📚, un projet conçu pour sensibiliser les jeunes à leur rapport avec les écrans. Pour plus d’information sur la trousse educative qui accompange le film veillez communiquer avec le Centre Vox. Merci a l’équipe incroyable 🫶

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QUICK FIX short film by  Alexandra Lemay

This  was a  labour of love that was made with no budget over the pandemic. It's far from perfect but I am still extremely proud to have produced my first independent short. Thank you to DP / co-producer  Kacim Az and his better half, hand model extraordinaire Vic Lamontagne as well as everyone else who helped make this lil' dude possible. I am extremely grateful for the festivals that supported it by including it in their programs and even awarded it prizes.  I hope you like it! 

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I had the pleasure of working for Stoopid Buddy Stoodios as the first Assistant Director on Steve Conrad’s series Ultra City Smith.  We had an amazing team of artist, animators, fabricators, lighting and camera and production crew making this wonderfully weird little baby come to life.  As grueling as the 65+Hours a week were, I hope to do it all over again for season 2!

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I made an independent short over the pandemic, Quick Fix and it’s finally done! This little guy seems like a pretty simple build, but it took a lot of trial and error before I arrived at a workable design. His design was inspired by pareidolia (where you see faces in objects) so I really wanted him to look as close to an actual cup whilst getting as much expression as possible. Thank you Erik Goulet for the armature and Dany Boivin for your fabrication advice!

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Not the most successful Fingerlings Show episode, but we had a blast making  it and I love the props in this! Considering our limited budget, resources and ridiculous deadline, I think we did a good job.

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So before covid hit I was working as a  creative producer for a toy company (Wowwee) . I had a  lot of fun making props, costumes and set dec as well as stop-motion animation for TV commercials, social media and youtube shows. We had the most fun working on the Fingerling Show. We worked with the R&D team to rig up their toys with remotes so we can puppeteer the blinks and head turns. Kevin Munroe wrote and  directed  them from LA  and Dany Boivin built the the sets and  most of the props. We worked with a few DP’s like Zach Fay, Ganael Dumontier and Josh Usheroff on set as well as Francis Hannerman who edited and composited all the episodes on the fly.  I was the on-set director, set decorator, costume and props fabricator as well as occasional puppeteer when we didn’t have enough hands. The show was just for youtube with very little budget and time, but it had a muppets feel to it and that made me happy.

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Freaks of Nurture is FINALLY online!!!! Just in time for Mother's Day, you can now share the film with that special lady that makes you wanna rip your hair out sometimes that you love unconditionally  😉🙃

Thank you to the NFB, the wonderful Freaks team (Jako Lanterne, Luka Sanader, Maral Mohammadian, Michael Fukushima, Amanda Plummer and Anne Dorval to name a few) and of course, my family, for making this little film come together! ( I promise this is the last post I make about this film 😅... I hope you like it! )

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DAVID’S TEA - TEA OF THE MONTH  - November (Let it snow)

Here's the latest stop-motion animation I worked on for DAVIDsTEA... put some of my old barista skills at work for that foam!

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DAVID’S TEA - TEA OF THE MONTH  - October  (Carrot cupcake)

Here's a lil' gif I made for David's Tea (I didn't get to taste the tea, but I was intrigued and it did smell fantastic!)

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Freaks Of Nurture - Mom’s House

Sneak peek of my new stop-motion short Freaks of Nurture produced by the NFB.

Written, Designed, Directed, Animated, Fabricated (Puppet Sculpt, Paint, Costumes) by Alexandra Lemay / Armatures & Rigs by Erik Goulet / Sets, Props by Jako Lanterne / DOP by Luka Sanaders / Produced by Maral Mohammadian / NFB

* To see more of Jako Lanterne’s work, please check out their website! They are a husband and wife team set in Montreal and are fantastic to work with.  http://www.jakolanterne.com/

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Freaks of Nurture - Dinosaur Intro

Sneak peek of my new stop-motion short Freaks of Nurture produced by the NFB.

Written, Designed, Directed, Animated, Fabricated (Puppet Sculpt, Paint, Set) by Alexandra Lemay / Armatures by Erik Goulet  / DOP by Luka Sanaders / Produced by Maral Mohammadian / NFB

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Dino Set

Dinosaur set in the making for my new stop-motion short Freaks of Nurture produced by the NFB.

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Gwangi

Dinosaur puppet in the making for my new stop-motion short Freaks of Nurture produced by the NFB.

*Design, sculpts, seaming and paint by Alexandra Lemay, armatures and casts by Erik Goulet and molds by Daniel Auclair