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KARLAB is a team of specialists in digital characters making.
Our founders, Laurent Guittard & Ali Hamdan, have 18 years of experiences in the 3d industry and 10 years as characters specialists. They worked on some of the most successful animation movies of all time (Minions, Despicable Me 2&3, Pets...).
And since 2016, we have provided lookdev, sculpt, modeling, surfacing, body rig, facial rig, consulting, R&D, training, conferences... etc, to the best studios on some of the most known shows (League of Legends, Disney's Monsters at Work, Asterix & the magic potion...) .
Let us ask you a question.
Do you think it's better, easier or cheaper to build your own character team in your office ? Or to do it without any help from specialists ?...
A quality character needs a lot of technologies and a lot of human experiences behind.
And it's exactly what our 5 years pipeline and team are.
We don't need 6 months of r&d to build a character pipeline, or 3 months of training to have an effective team.
WE ARE READY NOW to start tomorrow any kind of your character, to help your pipeline or your team. Not in 6 months, TOMORROW.
WE ARE HERE TO FREE YOU about the pressure and the worry to find qualified people, to have the best quality characters, to keep your budget, or to reach your deadlines.
That you can concentrate yourself on all other complex aspects of a digital production and having good images and numbers to show to everyone.
WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU.
And at the end, you will save money, time and stress for a better quality.
With Karlab, you will enjoy again to work with digital characters.
ABOUTUS
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Pipeline & R&D by Ali
Clients Team Supervision by Laurent
Karlab's internal projects
Short movie in a SF universe:
"On a dying planet, two lost warriors are fighting each other before joining their strengths to survive..."
Small part of a big story...
Fan art of Clayton, character from the Disney movie "Tarzan".
- realistic study
- realistic study
Fan Art:
- Caricature of Lee Van Cleef from the movie "The good, the bad & the ugly"
Fan Art:
- realistic sculpt of the actor Bolo Yeung from the movie "Blood Sport"
- alien's study
Fan Art of Batman, from the comic book "Kingdom Come" from Alex Ross
- cartoon study
Fan Art:
- realistic sculpt of Mike Tyson
- realistic study
Before Karlab (Ali & Laurent's highlights)
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WHY
KARLAB ?
Because we are specialists for years in digital characters making.
.: 17 years
of experience !
.: 18 movies !
.: $ 4 billion at
the box office
Because we want to make accessible to all
the artistic and technical standards of Hollywood.
HOW
WE HELP YOU
Experienced Consultants.
Appropriate solutions.
Supervising & Technical support.
Artists in remote or in your office.
The most economical and technically effective solution for you
taking care about:
.: the production constraints
.: the budget
.: the deadlines
Since
2016
WHAT
WE DO FOR YOU
Creative & technical step.
Cartoonish & realistic.
.: Complete character assets
.: sculpt design .: look dev
.: modeling .: texturing .: shading
......: fur .: body rig
........: facial rig
More
than 500
characters
passed through
our hands
#theDigitalCharacterSpecialists
A little bit of history
Ali & Laurent met each other in the early days of their career, somewhere around 2004 at "Attitude Studio", a famous company in France at the time. Back then, Ali worked as a generalist and Technical Director, whereas Laurent specialized himself in Modeling and Surfacing.
Then, for more than a decade now, they crossed each other on many productions. They had the opportunity to add Rigging, Cfx, Fur, Lighting, Compositing and Supervision to their experience and skills.
Providing them an overarching view and a good understanding of the Production pipeline and workflow.
In the last years they met again in one of the biggest animation studios worldwide : ILLUMINATION, where they had the chance to work or supervise the characters of blockbuster movies, allowing them to reach a very high level of artistry and technique.
It was there, in the Minions house, after reaching the top of one of the "3d mountains" that they wanted to discover new "playgrounds" and to start their own adventure.
They decided to create a company specialized in what they knew the most : the CG characters, and to call it KARLAB (for Character Laboratory).
The journey started in early 2016, and we are happy to say that KARLAB met quickly a lot of success, supervising and creating many characters for the best french companies, and also foreign ones based in London, China or Scotland for example.
And there is a lot more coming, so stay tuned...
More About Us...
You need an information, a costestimate or to apply for a job ?
Feel free to send a message with the formular .
You can also send an email to : contact@karlab.fr
Or write a letter to our offices:
Or take your chance by phone :
+33 6 81 37 02 84
+33 6 20 62 18 15
KARLAB Montpellier
MIBI
672 rue du Mas de Verchant
34000 Montpellier FR
KARLAB Paris
(opened the 17th august 2020)
17 rue de la Vanne
92120 Montrouge FR
(chez Regus/HQ, bat.11 6è etg)
