Frenchy Bunny blog is about nursery rhymes.
It's also to tell the story behind "Frenchy Bunny."
It's about a guy who had nothing and who decided to create something. But more than a way to get some income, it's about being happy.
Oh it's not easy, but it's about choosing a direction, your own path.
It's about entrepreneurship, challenges.
So everything that I will share, my experiences, my thoughts can be useful and I hope it will interest someone.
How are you? Ready to sing? Nursery rhymes - Brother John -Lyrics below
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Are you sleeping,
Are you sleeping?
Brother John,
Brother John?
Morning bells are ringing,
Morning bells are ringing.
Ding Ding Dong,
Ding Ding Dong!!!:)
I hope the lyrics were not too long:) ===================
My name is Pascal and I am the creator of Frenchy Bunny, cute character for children songs and nursery rhymes, on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/frenchybunnystudio
Frenchy Bunny for happy baby and happy mom and dad!:)
Today, I'm gonna tell you how it all started. How I dediced to take a U-turn in my life.
Here is one of my last animation.
And below I will tell you how it all started, OK?
How it clicked in my mind, and how I started that crazy project, and how I learnt all these new skills.
I mean it's tough, but if I succeeded in learning so many things, it means anyone can learn anything as well. Whatever you want to do, just keep working on your project.
So here is one of my last animation. Please subscribe to my channel and share my videos!
A NEW START- HOW I CREATED FRENCHY BUNNY
In this low economy, work for me was becoming less and less regular. Some months, I was not even making enough to pay the rent.
And the more it goes, the more I felt I was more and more expandable.
The more people got unemployed, the more I could be easily replaced. And people losing their jobs, it's not poor people with no skills, or manual workers like. When everything is going down, I was meeting new guys coming from the trade market, the tourism industry, people who were managers, people who had a senior position in a company, it was like anyone with English language skills and who needed a quick job could replace me.
Plus in my field, there was less and less work.
My work it was sometimes 10, sometimes 12 hours, and up to 15 hours/day. Plus 2 to 3 hours just to go to work in the traffic. I mean it was not easy. I mean when you can only sleep 5 or 6 hours, some days just 4 or 3 hours, you're always wrecked.
But if I wanted to stay in that job, I mean keep working for a few days, you had to accept the long hours. Otherwise, it was over.
And the worse is that when you have more and more people ready to work, it was getting more difficult just to get some work. And everything was renewable, like small contracts just for the day, always renewable. So, some months, you could have work, but every week, you never knew, and some months it was very very low.
ONE MORNING
So, one morning, I woke up. And I had drawn a little story, just wih pencil, 2 years before. But I had heard it was so competitive in illustration that it was next to impossible to make it, or to just to get little revenue.
That morning, I thought about that character that I had created, and I felt it was really a pity to leave it in a cardboard box. So it was almost if the character told me: Hello, get me out of that box!
I want to live, I want to see the world! Please help me! and set me FREE!
I told myself, why don't you try to bring your character to the web? Just put it on the web. Try to make it known. At least, the idea first was just to present, and get some visibility.
I thought first about E-cards.
But I absolutely didn't know how it worked. I didn't even have the internet connection at that time. So I talked about my project to people around me, and a guy gave me a training course in video, about animation. It was in English, and there was so much to learn and it was so complex that I told myself:
the only way to make it is to do only that. I went to the store, I got some food, and I spent almost 2 months, doing that, watching the videos, over and over.
An animation program is so vast, that even if you start, you're blocked every 5 minutes, because there is something you don't know.
TRAINING FOR MONTHS
Yet, I stuck to it. I spent months listening over and over to this trainer, reading books, getting new books, and every week I had the feeling it was getting more and more complex. It's like climbing a mountain when everytime you look up, the summit seems higher and higher.
Many times, I failed. Many times I felt it was impossible. Many times I was blocked. After 6 months, I couldn't even export. Everything was blurry or not fluid. It took me 2 months, just to get the export parameters right. And I succeeded maybe after 1 year.
And the worse was not my own challenge with the technique and the computer stuff.
The most difficult part is when people you like the most don't even believe in your project. When you're attempting something you need so much support.
And just saying, I'm gonna become an animator, I want to make my own videos. My best friends had the feeling I was going to a wall.
Yet I kept believing in my dream. I didn't know how this would go. But I stuck to it.
I am not making anything right now, yet it is a reward just to see people woming and watching my videos. For me it's like if I had my little cinema. And it's really crazy and wonderful just to see that I created moving things and some people can enjoy it!
Please come and visit my YouTube channel, with the children songs and Frenchy Bunny videos!
And don't forget to subscribe and share my videos!:)
and you can share my blog as well! But I'm brand new here, and I don't know how it works.:)
My name is Pascal, creator of Frenchy Bunny, cute animation, nursery rhymes for kids.
How will the population look in 10 years?
Will the kids become overweight teenagers?
If you have children, maybe the answer belongs to you.
And when I look at the store, it's almost like a stadium. Just for cereals, you have 20 meters. All brands are competing. All moms are gonna be seduced by the same trap: Buy more - buy cheaper.
3 packs for the price of 2.
It's gonna be eaten at the same speed.
The more you fill the refrigerator, the more temptation for the kids.
And it gets like an endless cycle; The less they do (physically) , the more they gonna spend time on the screen, the more they'll be stressed, the more they will eat.
Will they be happier?
And the more overweight they will become, the more they will have difficulty to reach their goals or to succeed in their social relations.
And so more stress, less activity, less friends, or less social interactivity, so more food...
So the idea is that it's crucial to educate properly at an early age, to have a good diet, eat fruits and vegetables.
If the kid starts to get bad habits, if the child gets addicted to too much fat or too much sweet, or too many anything... then it's gonna be extremely hard to change.
So the best way is not to get addicted.
A good song to learn about fruits is "apples and bananas".
Hi there, I've just found a great video from MrBuzzfactor on YouTube!
MrBuzzfactor is speaking about The #1 Success Tool for Artists & Creative Entrepreneurs
success tool for artists and entrepreneur I hope this tip can be useful to you! A notebook. A simple notebook A notebook that I can carry anywhere, light, cheap, but it's like the most efficient computer or database, quick to use. At home, at the restaurant, in the street, by your bed before going to sleep, just to plan the next day.
Most of time, new ideas are gone in the wind the next morning. Make sure you keep focusing on what's important. And it's a great way (at least for me) to put down what I have to do and to prioritize. First things First.:) For an artist, a notebook gives day after day a sense of direction. I'm consuming 96 pages every 3 or 4 weeks.:)
I use a notebook 96 pages, format 24 X 32 cm, Paper 90 g/m2, I put down everything on it: sketches, plan, ideas, statistics, things to do...
Hope this can be useful to you. Just do it, and you'll see quickly how you get more efficient! Please tell me what you think, OK? I'd love to hear from you!
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Thanks for coming here! I'm really glad to see you!
How are you? Please give me some news! You can leave comments here or on Facebook, OK?
I hope you're well, and you're gonna be warm during these last winter months.
For the last days, I've been reworking on one of the Frenchy Bunny video: the popular song "The wheels on the bus"
I have other scenes unfinished but decided it's better to have a short story than a story which remains a project.
So if you want to go in the pool. Just go. It's in the water that we learn swimming.:)
Some very nice people had suggested that I improve the sound, as there were few losses of power.
I truely appreciate all your comments! As long as it's constructing. :) Even if sometimes it can bug me, after a while, it's brewing like tea, and it helps me to go in the right direction. Thanks
I hope this audio track is slightly better. In fact, I found a new way of recording, well, it's just a small trick. And it seems it keeps the sound better at same level.
Now, I see that the first version was very slow, but I liked the sounds with birds. So I will have to work on that again.
Why did I do a WW red bus at first? Well, it was my first vision. When I was a kid, I went to a summer camp, and when we were going sailing, we were going in that mini van.
And we were singing the whole trip.
Of course, it was not that colorful, but then I saw all the WW bus from surfers, and I thought it would give a fun look.
Yet, I see that for a broad audience, it's probably way too far from what they're expecting and so I tried to adjust to a more normal bus.
Most of the representations of that song are red buses or yellow school bus.
It's not easy to do children illustration. If it's too realistic, it's artificial, and yet it has to look functional.
By the way, it's not in the recording, but if you go on the road, I say: "seatbelt, please" , "seatbelt, please", "seatbelt, please"
I hope you're not too cold, while you're reading this. We're gonna reach the coldest month of the year in France. I've heard that there is no cold weather, only bad clothes.:)
So get warm!:)
Please leave your comments, I'd love to hear from you!
In my last page, I was talking about my day working on that song "The 5 Little ducks".
And then I realized that maybe some of you don't even know what is that song.
(to be honest, I was like you, 2 months ago:)
For those who don't have the chance to know this amazing song, here are the lyrics:
I let you judge, and I leave you some time to study the deep meaning and the philosophical sense of that story.:)
Five little ducks went out one day Over the hills and far away Mother Duck said "Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack" But only four little ducks came back.
Four little ducks went out one day Over the hills and far away Mother Duck said "Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack" But only three little ducks came back.
Three little ducks went out one day Over the hills and far away Mother Duck said "Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack" But only two little ducks came back.
Two little ducks went out one day Over the hills and far away Mother Duck said "Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack" But only one little duck came back.
One little duck went out one day Over the hills and far away Mother Duck said "Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack" But none of those little ducks came back.
Mother duck went out one day Over the hills and far away Mother Duck said "Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack" And all of the five little ducks came back.
Please comment and subscribe. I'd love to hear from you! I want to hear you singing! and don't hesitate to film you or your kid singing with the video!:)
You can DO it! Yes, you can!:)
My name is Pascal. I am the creator of Frenchy Bunny, cute characters and animation for children.
Today, I've been working on the video about the song "5 Little Ducks". I translated the English version, and adapted it slightly, so the rhyme and the rythm still work.
I did the recording, and then just for the editing, it took me several hours.
It's crazy, because it seems so simple.
There are 3 scenes which repeat themselves, over and over... 5 ducks, 4 ducks, ...
But the French version is a little different, so I had to re-edit the whole thing.
5 little Ducks
Here is the English version
and theFrenchversion,
with this amazing close-up of Mother Duck!:)
(I know it's ridiculous to speak about these things. But you know how I am?!
I love it! Changing a boring day with something colorful and absolutely riduiculous!:)
And I like that. I added as well a close up for mother duck, when she find out that none little duck came back.
It's so funny to speak about things which are so unreal.:)
Well, that's what I do, guys.
I heard in an interview, I think it were guys from Pixar. And so the guy is complaining to his colleague because they had to redo, and redo, over and over, an animation to improve it. The animation was about a frog. A simple frog, and they probably wrecked their brain to adjust the animation and reach perfection.
And his friend told him: "come on, it's not so bad when you spend the whole day working on making a frog move. I mean if we have to complain, what the rest of the world should say?"
So, I spend the day with the "5 little Ducks"!:)
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Something else....
If you have one dream, work on it. I'm not saying drop everything, or quit your job, to follow your dream. No. Just start working on it, learning the field, studying the pros and cons, see if it is realistic, if it can work, if you can really make a living out of it. This research is basically what they call a market study or market research.
Before jumping in the pool, just check if there's enough water, OK?
Simple as that.
Invest your time in getting new skills, learning new things, and it will be a start, because you start building as soon as you do the first step in the direction of your goal.
Another thing, keep focusing on something you really like, something you're really passionate. Because, if you really like it, you will keep working on it, whatever happens, if it's snowing, pouring with rain, or if the whole world goes down around you, you will go on, when the others quit.
And that's a rule of success. Persistence, being able to overcome the big difficulties when it gets really tough.
Success requires work. But when it gets too hard, most people quit. And it's only by going on that you get better.
"Vouloir, c'est pouvoir" and I think Napoleon said: "Pouvoir, c'est gagner"
To will is to be able to, and " being able to is winning"
Have a great day! You're the best! And if you want something, if you really want something, work on it, and you will get it!
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Have a great day, with sunshine, and with Frenchy Bunny!
Pascal
creator of Frenchy Bunny
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In that YouTube channel, you will find the videos and you will see what I'm doing.
Please visit at anytime. You will always be welcome. Just switch off the light when you go out.:)
I don't know yet how to put images here, so this will give you a first idea, OK? I hope I can make new friends on this blog. Frenchy Bunny and the hedgehog don't know many people. So don't hesitate to share my videos, to help them to find their way.
Adopt the hedgehog, and help him to meet new people:)
I promise I will learn how to put images and video, here!.... Maybe I can try right now... I'm gonna do some research. I'm sure it's possible. Just have to find How...
Great, it's working! It's amazing!
I feel I'm gonna have fun with this Blog!
If you pass-by, just say hello, I will be happy. Frenchy Bunny and the hedgehog want to make new friends!:)
In this blog I will tell you the amazing story behind Frenchy Bunny. How it got created. All the difficulties I had to face. What pushed me forward. How I decided to change my life.
I know I sing like a saucepan. I've been told, even by a friend: don't quit your day job.
The thing is that I don't have a day job. There was much less work in my field, things got really tough. So I decided to move my ass, and do what I always dreamed of. I'm good at being positive, drawings, and I always loved cinema.
MY LITTLE CINEMA
When I was a kid, during holidays, I could go in small cinema in a village. It was not everyday. There was a projection, only on Saturdays. People from all over came up. It was the big event. And we were no more than 30 people in the room. But it was lots of people compared to how many people there were in the village.
So my YouTube channel, it's like my little cinema. A little cinema in my village.
And it's great! I'm happy to see you here! I'm happy I can do things, and people can watch it. You made my day!:)
Again, I know it's not great, or outstanding. But I'm a real amateur, I didn't know anything, I didn't do any school. So I can only improve, right?
So please come back, and in the meantime, all the best to you!
Have a great day!
And thank you for coming here and reading! I truely appreciate!
Absolutely don't know how this works, but hey, the best way to learn swimming is to jump in the pool, right?
So here I come!
My name is Pascal, I am building Frenchy Bunny, a cute yellow bunny and his friends, small preschool animation, on YouTube. I do as well Pascal's hedgehog.
Yes, it's me! The drawings, animation, and singing! I know I sing like a saucepan, I would even say that a saucepan makes better sounds :D
Videos mainly for children and happy parents. Nursery rhymes and popular songs.
I know it's not as best as I would like, but I move my ass. And things will improve.
I have never been on a blog before.
So if you pass by, don't hesitate to say hello! Thank you!
Yet, I love reading and books. (I'm not stupid;) It's just that I focused mainly on learning new techniques for animation and new softwares. Yet, believe me, in my family, books have always been around us. So I'll be happy to write!
Yesterday, I went to Shakespeare and company, a second-hand bookstore just in front of Notre Dame, across the river.
This is one of the oldest houses in the area, probably from the 15th or 16th century.
If you come to Paris, this is something to see, not even something to see, but something to live. Just being there, being part of that culture, being part of all these people coming from all around the world.
I stayed there, nearly 4 hours, surrounded by books, old books on wooden shelves. And this really made me think it was part of me as well. And that's why I had to create this blog today.
The amazing thing is that in that bookshop, you're surrounded by books, old beams on the ceiling, from the 16th century, there is a lecture room on the first floor, with an amazing view at the street and at Notre Dame. Everything is so authentic that it is really a place like nowhere else.
That's where I learnt English, well part of it. I've been travelling a lot and I spent probably all my time with the anglo-american community, without forgetting Australians and Kiwis!:)
I was coming at this bookstore, years ago, getting books, reading everything, so I feel really good up there. And yesterday, I had the chance to sit and relax upstairs. And this really made a change!:)
I have plenty of things to tell you, about my life and the amazing story behind Frenchy Bunny! Yet, it's pretty late here, in Paris... had a long day, so I'm gonna crash.
Talk to you soon!
Pascal
creator of Frenchy Bunny, and the crazy hedgehog who sings like a saucepan:)
