Nightshift Entertainment - The Art of Jean-Louis Sirois

a swill of grog and a touch of scurvy

2011-06-16T15:05:00.006-03:00

More to come soon.....

rough digi-doodle

2011-06-15T12:00:00.002-03:00

Space Concept

2011-02-06T11:07:00.002-04:00

commission

2011-01-16T13:06:00.003-04:00

Here's a little freelance project i'm working on. Having fun with it.

Rocketeer

2011-01-05T19:36:00.002-04:00

Well it's been forever since I posted anything so I thought I may try to change that a bit. Lets see how it goes.

I did this as part of our christmas exchange at work for my buddy and fellow artist Matt Rogers. I grew up with Matty and he's a super talented dude and great friend. Hope he digs it.

I will try to post at least weekly if possible but bi weekly more likely. Happy New Year.

Voodoo Pirates

2010-01-19T18:59:00.002-04:00

Well it's looking like Voodoo Pirates will be out in the very near future in Canada/US. No official date but I am hearing soon and I'm eagerly awaiting with the rest of you. It's a funny thing working on a game and then waiting to play it. I haven't seen or played the final cut but I've been digging what little I have seen. More to come....

Cheers

ZOMBIE PLANET

2009-12-30T13:43:00.004-04:00

It's been a busy year. I know I haven't been posting but I've had good reason. Since wrapping up my Autumn Moon projects, I had a few other little gigs, but nothing too heavy so I figured it was time to try my own little project. A programmer I work with at my dayjob;Marc Hebert, and I , have been tossing around a few ideas for a few months and we decided we'd try our hand at making a few iphone games. We decided to use Blistered Thumb Games as our company identity. A kick back to those button masher classics.

You can check out our blog here:

http://www.blisteredthumb.blogspot.com/

So this was way back in September we decided we'd get the ball rolling. Between our day job, and other clients, we didn't quite get to where we wanted to be as quickly as we would have liked, but we kept moving and the last few months have been running quite smoothly.

So with Christmas finally here, we've released our first game "Zombie Planet". It has been a fun ride working on it and we learned a ton. We've also been lucky to have Neil Kennedy join our team to give us some kicking sounds and music. All in all, quite happy with everything so far. Hopefully people get a kick out of it.

You can gGet it here:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewSoftware%253Fid%253D346482467%2526mt%253D8

So I hope you guys play the game, and I hope you like it. There is lots of fun stuff to come. And if anybody has comments, suggestions, ideas or anything they'd like to see, email us at:

blisteredthumb@gmail.com

We're learning and having fun doing it. Your feedback keeps us improving and growing. And your support will keep us adding new content

Cheers and Merry Christmas.

Eep Eep!

2009-07-17T19:44:00.004-03:00

Well one of my favourite games of all time has been making alot of news as of late. Monkey Island is back!!! Not only with a re-release of the original, with a full special edition treatment, but now also with a 5 part all new Series, Tales of Monkey Island.

As a fan, I am just giddy. And having finished playing the first part last week, I think it justifies the excitement. And by the time the series is done, Ghost Pirates should be just around the corner. Did I mention I love pirates.

So in light of all this piratey goodness, and also for a lack of up to date postings, here is what my version of Guybrush Threepwood in MI2 might look like. Hope you enjoy. I know how passionate people can be with these characters and there has always been great debate between cartooney and more realistic. I'd still love to see this design for the character allong with Bill Tiller's backgrounds, but that's just me.
Cheers

Gathering Dust...

2009-04-29T15:22:00.002-03:00

Well for the stragglers that find there way to my blog, I'm sorry I haven't been posting. I've been busy with a few side projects and have been trying to enjoy the start of summer by staying away from the computer as much as possible. I hope to post some new stuff in May. Cheers and thanks for popping by.

Also in other news, Autumn Moon's next game has just been anounced. "Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island". I had the privilege to do some design work on this game and am looking forward to seeing the final product. Here's a couple screens from a game mag.

Sally & O'Mally

2009-02-12T20:49:00.002-04:00

Well here is my children's book characters now in technicolor as promised. I'm pretty much done the story where I like it. I'm going to get some feedback from a couple more people and then it's time to start drawing and roughing everything out. I'm thinking the covers and sleeve will be rendered like this but the interior might be done a little simpler. Not sure yet. Maybe even watercolor. I haven't committed to an idea yet which is good as I have a couple little projects that just popped up before I get going on it. Hope somebody out there likes it. My kids like the characters. That's totally a "My mum thinks I'm cute !" comment isn't it? I'm shutting up now.

Cheers.

JL

P.s. There's some weird pixelation going on when i post this image for some reason. The .jpg looks fine here but when I post it it gets muddy so my apologies. :)

Children's Book

2009-02-12T09:41:00.003-04:00

So I think these will be the 2 main characters for my childrens book. Any comments/feedback is welcomed as always. Before it is brought up, they will not be crosseyed the whole book. I'm still massaging the design a bit but I have a couple colored versions I'm pretty happy with that I may post this weekend. Just trying to decide what level of finishing I should do that is both conductive to the look and style of the book, but also conductive to me getting it done. :)

a few more sketches

2009-02-10T19:07:00.003-04:00

Here's a few more quick AVS sketches.

Been working on both writing and illustrating a childrens book lately. So many things to consider. Hardcover vs softcover. Size and dimensions. Paper texture and quality. Special printing. Combination gloss & matte. How will it look on the shelf. Will it fit good in little hands. Maybe I'm thinking too much. This is unchartered territory and even though I'm more or less making it for my kids, it'd be nice to get it out there. The written part is pretty much complete, and I've pretty much nailed down the 2 main(and pretty much only) characters. Maybe I'll post the sketches this weekend for some feedback.

Enough rambles...enjoy.

Shorty...I mean Shrowdy von Kiefer

2009-02-08T19:21:00.003-04:00

quick doodle

2009-02-04T14:13:00.001-04:00

nuff said.

Vat is this???.....More Vampyre stuff?

2009-02-03T20:59:00.008-04:00

Here's a few rough sketches and quick FMV shots from A Vampyre Story. Some of these were earlier versions of characters, and some of these are characters that were left out for now. All pretty rough but still fun to share. :) I myself would love to see the other 2 women of low morale fiber make an appearance someday. We'll have to wait and see. :)

Hope those of you who played the game enjoyed it. And if there's anybody who's eyeballs somehow happen to fall upon this page hasn't already picked up A Vampyre Story, go now and pick up a copy. Don't bother putting on pants they will only slow you down. Pick one up for your loved ones, your neighbors, even your cat. Valentine's day is coming. Don't walk, run.

You can find it in store or online at:

http://www.gamersgate.com/index.php?page=product&what=view&sku=DD-AVS&via=newly_added#info

or

http://www.amazon.ca/Vampyre-Story-Fr-Eng-manual/dp/B001F0J70I/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1234120558&sr=8-1

ciào

Jessica Rabbit

2009-01-29T10:50:00.001-04:00

I think I'll call this done for now. I got to abuse some photoshop sparkle brushes a little bit on this one. Fun to use, but easy to get carried away.

2009-01-28T14:52:00.000-04:00

Here's another little nostalgic piece I started today. Any artist, animator, that says they weren't moved the first time they saw Jessica Rabbit walking across the silver screen is crazy. I will try to wrap it up this weekend if I have time.

ASTROBOY(work in progress)

2009-01-23T15:48:00.000-04:00

I'm pretty stoked about the astroboy movie having grown up on the 80's cartoons. I know some people don't dig the style but I think it looks like a 3D version of what it looked like when I was a kid, which is great for me. :)

That said I though I'd have fun and do my own take on Astro. Here's a piece i did during some downtime at work. Not quite done but on track I think.

2009-01-22T09:46:00.001-04:00

Been a very very busy couple of weeks. Here's another little paint scribble for fun.

guy-brushed

2008-12-30T14:54:00.000-04:00

Had a bit of downtime so started throwing some color on the guybrush sketch.

It all started with monkeys...

2008-12-28T10:48:00.000-04:00

Ever since I was little I loved playing video games. Started with the Vic20, then atari, and then nintendo, and then Sierra's kings quest series on our home computer. But it wasn't until Monkey Island came out in 1990 that I realized that games can have a solid story and truly be a valid art form. I remember playing for hours with my father who isn't a gamer but immediately loved this game also. As soon as the sequels came out, I was playing them which finally led me to getting in touch with Bill Tiller when rumblings of A Vampyre Story had begun. Lucky for me, he liked some of my characters and brought me on board. Here's a little sketch of what my own Guybrush Threepwood might look like as well as a couple other fav characters from the best game series ever!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

2008-12-23T08:17:00.001-04:00

Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays!

Cheers

As Kids See it

2008-12-20T10:00:00.001-04:00

We’ve all seen children’s creativity through their drawings that we proudly put on the fridge. But have you ever wondered what it would look like in color and rendered as if their little imaginations opened up setting their creations free.Here's a couple kids art commisions I just wrapped up. I love doing these. Such a fun challenge to bring these great creations to life! :)

Couple odds and ends

2008-12-16T13:08:00.000-04:00

Here's a quick unfinished frog painting I did at lunch

and here's a quick coloring page I did for my wife's work coloring contest...

WonderWoman

2008-12-11T20:17:00.001-04:00

MONA V.1.0

2008-12-01T17:40:00.000-04:00

Well the bad news is, I won't be posting any AVS sketches for a bit. The good news is the reason I cannot is that there will be an art of book for sale some time in the not too distant future . So in the meantime, here is a look at Mona if she were born in the era of some of the classics.

blushing bride...

2008-12-01T17:38:00.000-04:00

Just a drawing for fun.

odds and ends...

2008-11-30T13:59:00.000-04:00

A Few odds and ends from my day job, and some contracts from a couple years back. It's funny looking back and picking your stuff apart. I guess it's a good thing to be able to do that. It signifies progress. Nonetheless some fun memories.

Vunder Voman(Sorry. Some left over Vampyre Story)

2008-11-29T11:40:00.000-04:00

Here's a sketch for a piece I'm doing for a friend of mine. Color version coming soon.

Cheers
JL

A Vampyre Story

2008-11-29T11:24:00.000-04:00

Some how over the last couple of years, I've somehow lucked out to work with one of my favourite background artists in video games, Bill Tiller. Bill is a lucas arts veteran with many big titles under his belt including on of my favourites;"Curse of Monkey Island"!. I've had the privilege of doing some 2D art including character designs, and fmv background painting on "A Vampyre story" which has been released in Germany and is soon to be released in North America. Anybody who likes the classic point and click adventures should check it out here.

http://www.amazon.ca/Vampyre-Story-Fr-Eng-manual/dp/B001F0J70I/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1227972656&sr=8-1

Here are a few odds and ends. I'll see if I can post some of the character designs soon....

Cheers

Cleanin out the Attic

2008-11-29T11:12:00.002-04:00

Here's some odds and ends from the old site that I figured I'd put up at least to get started posting. The last year has been spent doing a bunch of work protected by NDA's and I've had little time to do much of my own art. With the release of "A Vampyre Story" I'll probably post a few random sketches from that if I'm allowed and I expect to be posting more regularly in 2009. At least that is the plan. I hope. Cheers for now.

the procrastinator

2008-10-24T08:17:00.000-03:00

Well after several failed attempts at mainting my webpage and keeping it current, I've decided to give up and see if I have any more success "blogging". I think I need to procrastinate a bit more though before diving in. See you next month. :P