Infoman is a satirical news show that takes an irreverent look at today’s big stories. The host Jean-René Dufort, along with his faithful co-hosts Chantal Lamarre and MC Gilles, provides coverage on the personalities and subjects of the hour in a way that’s both informative and entertaining.

Our goal was to update the graphics and motion design for its 23rd season. We wanted to highlight the raw, rebellious and cutting journalistic style of Jean-rené Dufort, aka “Infoman”, the hero of information. We mixed superhero comics with the punk rock design aesthetics of the 80s to arrive at a colorful three-dimensional scrapbook effect, integrating paper tears, texture and newspaper clippings. The title sequence follows Infoman’s legendary microphone as it rockets around the globe, interrupting major figures in local and international news. Vlodimir Zelinski, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, Pope Francis, Kim Jong-un as well as the Montreal and Quebec mayors are all featured. It was accomplished with a mix of stock footage, green screens, artwork, and 3D assets, all stitched together in After Effects.

Director & Sound Designer: André "Jacknife" Lavoie
Props: Annie-Claude Gagnon
Cameraman: Erick St-Hilaire
Music: Xavier Caféine
Art direction, design, editing, animation, 3D, compositing: Eltoro Studio

Ad for the Quebec government to promote french language.

Director : YC Fournier
Production : les enfants - Céline Ceillier
Music : Cri
Online and motion design : Eltoro Studio

Télé-Québec gave us the mandate to create a new series of idents for the presentation of their Cinema and Documentary content. The purpose of these short openings is to enrich the new brand identity developed by Télé-Québec.

We opted for a minimalist, dynamic aesthetic. The challenge was to represent, simply and with clear graphic codes, each category of the Cinema and Documentary sections. It was essential that we gave sound design an important place in order to quickly differentiate each of the categories. The goal was to create strong visual concepts to guide and entertain viewers while being consistent with the visual identity of the channel.

Sound: Supersavant

For the opening titles of the 52nd edition, Pierre-Yves Roy Desmarais personifies the Coronavirus.
This show is broadcast on Radio-Canada on New Year’s Eve. This year’s edition shattered the record for the most watched show in Quebec history! More than 3.8 million people, or nearly 50% of the Quebec population, have watched this holiday season tradition. Our mandate was to design the visual identity of the show and to create the entire environment around the Coronavirus which was the undisputed star of 2020.​​​​​​​

Art direction, design, 3D modeling and animation, motion design, editing, compositing and special effects: ELTORO STUDIO

Opening title for the Star Académie Gala and creation of projection content for acts featuring Mika, Émile Bilodeau, Marjo, Claude Dubois, Patrice Michaud and many others.

Opening for this documentary series immersing us in the Montreal crime scene of the 60s and 70s. A period where a real war between the police and bank robbers exploded.

Music : JuBanz

Opening of the docu-reality on a spectacular investigation, which led to the arrest of the individual who terrorized West Montreal from 2006 to 2009

Lyrics and music :  Patrick Watson

Creation and animation of the opening titles of Louis-José Houde’s show “Préfère Novembre” recorded in Moncton NB.

Creation, direction, illustration, animation : Eltoro Studio -  Music : Jean-Michel Blais

Production of the video content for the new immersive show for the permanent exhibition at the Museum Pointe-à-Callière.
Screened on a scenic installation specially designed for the show, the final video tells the story of Montreal through the tales of six characters in a mix of filming, photographs, archival documents, 2D animations, 3D, and illustrations. 

Creation and animation of content for the immersive exhibition "Inspirations" at the Palais des Congrès. 360 degree projections on the theme of creativity.

Musique: Choses Sauvage

Eltoro developed animations and graphics for Fletcher: Explained, part of a series produced for the Capital Records Youtube channel.
The series presents different artists speaking about the creative process and inspirations behind their recent projects.

Eltoro handled the artistic direction, design, illustration and animation. Our task was to create visual supports for Fletcher’s interview and provide a dynamic and unique vision to pair with her explanations.

Client : Capital Records

Three animated shorts that draw a parallel between pausing a video game and managing your own schedule when starting a Cégep à distance program. Three main characters were created for different scenarios to represent certain recurring realities among students.

Concept, script, art direction, illustrations & animations: Eltoro Studio - Sound Design: Underground

The Six Invitational is a professional eSports competition organized by Ubisoft based on its game, Rainbow Six: Siege. Each year, teams from around the world come together to compete in a week-long tournament, which attracts an increasing number of spectators and followers. Out of 16 participating teams, only one becomes the Rainbow Six: Siege World Champion at the end of the tournament.

For the 2020 edition, which took place in Montreal’s Place Bell, Eltoro was given the mission to create animated content deployed throughout the competition in support of the event. The studio was tasked with producing animations presenting multiple different moods, each one of them geared to key moments of the tournament, while preserving an overall visual harmony. The Eltoro team adapted an artistic direction established by Ubisoft to different steps of the Six Invitational competition and created 2D animation video content screened during the tournament. From the epic countdown to start off the event, the supporting visuals behind the game creators’ features, to the scenic projections during the orchestral performance, Eltoro brought its best, with original and dynamic visuals that gave life to the site and perfectly matched this intense event.

Like-moi! is a comedy with sketches that illustrates the frenzied and hilarious quest for love and happiness. Not easy to live under the influence of the Web, blogs and social medias while seeking your soul mate!

Direction, design, illustrations and motion design : Eltoro Studio

Music : Jean St-Jacques / Lyrics : Marc Brunet 

Award-winning project in TV Program Opening and Design category at the Grafika Awards 2016 and in Animation category at the LUX Awards 2016.

After eight seasons on CBC Radio-Canada, the show Les enfants de la télé is completely revamping its graphic design on the occasion of the beginning of its ninth season.

Music : Guy K

Artistic direction, design and animation : Eltoro Studio

Isabelle Maréchal and Raed Hammoud are at the helm of Zone franche, a brand new original production by URBANIA, which brings a different perspective to the strong issues of society that concern Quebeckers.

Artistic direction, graphic design and 2D animation of the opening titles and the logo : Eltoro Studio