Storyboarding veteran who is quite legendary himself, working with such heavies as Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski to drop a few names is now editing and transitioning into a masterful filmmaker himself.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A complete cosmic void. Total wiped out of the past, without memory or anticipation – an eternal non-being without consciousness or object-subject relations. Absolute zero. Not being here at all in any way.

What is your greatest fear?
That reincarnation is inevitable, and that I have to come back to human life.

Who are your favorite artists?
Jean-Claude Forest, Jean “Moebius” Giraud, John Singer Sargent, André Franquin, Jean Léon Jérome, Andrew Loomis and Otomo.

How did you get into Storyboarding?
I got into storyboarding by committing a mistake. I thought it was going to get me into a good position to direct films – how foolish! A journalist once interviewed me at the end of it said, “Before I spoke with you, I had not realized that you basically have a glorified shit job.” I got my start when I took a portfolio of drawings into a notorious New York sweatshop that provided storyboard frames to advertising agencies – they hired me on the spot. It was pure abuse and total exploitation, but I quickly learned how to do the job on my own and acquire clients directly. I ended up being hired at a prestigious advertising agency and there, I met some directors including a couple of famous ones…

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
I deplore people who go back on their word. Especially when they do it, as it is a commonplace these days, as if it were no big deal. I deplore the fact that everything we are taught or told is a lie…that we have to spend most of our lives unlearning false, and weeding out the bullshit so we can glimpse a tiny bit of truth. I deplore that no one wants the truth and that ultimately, denial is the greatest human activity.

Who do you admire the most?
I admire Robert Fripp, Thadeus Golas, John Goodsall, Michael Powell, Hal Ashby, Sydney Lumet.

How do you spend your time when you are not working?
Playing guitar, editing film, traveling, reading sleeping.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
In a wooden cabin by the sea, or working in South America.

What is your favorite genre?
Psychological Drama, thriller.

What is your greatest regret?
The PanAm stewardess with the town car at JFK.

Who is the greatest love of your life?
Judy.

What is your current state of mind?
Headache.

Which talent would you like to have?
Jim Hendrix’s, David Gilmour’s.

If you could go back into time, what would you do differently?
I’d go to Sarasota, Florida, in 1990 to make a documentary film about an old friend who has since passed away.

If you could change one thing about your art style, what would it be?
I’d make it look original.

What programs do you use?
Premiere, Advanced Disc Catalog, Winmap, VLC.

What programs do you want to learn?
After Effects.

If you could switch careers what would you do?
Make movies, or play guitar in an instrumental band.

What are your most treasured possessions?
A Kazuo Yairi nylon string guitar, a Roland GR-500 Synthesizer Guitar, and a 1976 rosewood neck Fender Stratocaster Guitar.

What do you regard as the lowest depths of misery?
Having to remain an illustrator much longer. Strike that. Being an illustrator as long as I have.

Describe your character?
Euphoric when I eat the bear, gloomy when the bear eats me.

Which Director would you pick to do a movie about your life?
Hal Ashby.

What is the quality you most like about being an artist?
The illusion of life. The ability to apply attention even handedly to all elements of a composition.

What do you most value in your friends?
A kind heart.

Who are your favorite heroes?
The leaders of the psychedelic movement, astronauts, musicians of the 70’s. Tad Golas, Steve Hackett, Bob Fripp.

What do you most dislike in this life?
It would be more practical to list the few things I do like. I do like garden variety of animals: Cats, mice, and birds. I love birds. I dislike the inevitable boredom of committed relationships. I dislike the Protestant obsession with busy-bodies and the money-God which permeates all life and filters all relations in the USA. I dislike the ubiquitous presence of religions in our lives and the presumption of an entitlement to respect all the stupid people with crazed ideas about reality placed upon us. I dislike the Soul-less fat cats who contribute to the pain of our daily lives with their cold greed. Many of those, being people I have to take money from in order to survive.

How would you like to die?
Ripped apart by wild beasts. Eaten savagely by a shark.

What is your Moto?
“Life is a sham.”

Sylvain stands here, in Northern Chile, South of the Peruvian border in a makeshift cemetery by the ocean, standing yonder behind him is the Big Andes Mountains, taken three years ago on a road trip.

Carthage sunset, illustrated for Director, Roman Polanski’s “Pompeii.”

“It would be more practical to list the few things I do like. I do like a garden variety of animals: Cats, mice, and birds. I love birds.”

A journalist once interviewed me at the end of it said, “Before I spoke with you, I had not realized that you basically have a glorified shit job.”