It was a Wednesday morning in February. I was lying on a hospital gurney, naked under a little surgery gown. I was about to undergo a partial mastectomy to prevent breast cancer.
 
I remember thinking: I should be feeling scared. But I wasn't scared. Truth be told, I felt like I was at the spa. 
 
💥 Whi...

Taking new resolutions (and keeping them) should be a constant habit. It's like tuning an instrument every time a string is offkey.

Throughout the year, I keep listening to the sound of my strings. When something sounds off, I tweak it. I don't judge myself for sounding off; I act on it.

The animation and visual effects industries were built on passion. The career you now have was once just a dream that you dared to dream.

And yet, this dream career isn't always a straight line, and the people in the industry are no strangers to uncertainty in project timelines and workflow disr...

 Two weeks ago, we had the privilege to participate in a panel discussion about the rise of well-being in animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.

It sparked many great conversations with festival attendees, animation professionals, and industry peers. 

One of the things we ...

Hello everyone!

I am Virginie, and I am a happy producer. I have been passionate about live-action and animation production for the past 15 years.

I only know one way to smile: BIG!

Needless to say, I choose joy. But my career was not always full of day-to-day happiness. I had to face a lot of to...

I always wanted my life to be an adventure, and for me, it’s meant taking a lot of risks. I had great moments of glamour and success, and I’ve also had low points, heartbreaks, and big failures.

Those lows and highs have helped me muscle up my gratitude a lot. I learned how to develop my gratitude ...

I recently took part in a course with the amazing Danielle Leslie, and I am looking forward to telling you more about the E-Course I am preparing!

One of the exercises Danielle makes us do in creating our course is writing down a brag bank, or master résumé, if you will. The exercise helps us zone ...

Consciously start spending your time, and invest your efforts in meaningful projects.

Learning how to spend time – and avoid wasting it

This was my first job as a storyboard artist. I loved this series, it was fun and the director had high standards but let us take initiative. It was very creative...

Virginie had the pleasure of taking part in Agora Community’s weekly live stream: A Conversation With.

We love the show’s straightforward approach, and Virginie was happy to engage in this no filter conversation about animation film & TV production.

If you were unable to attend live, the repl...

I was sitting in a production meeting, and all around the zoom room were long faces.

We could have been talking about some life-threatening topic or the illness of a loved one, and the mood would have been the same. Yet, I just shared with the team how well the review of the latest work with our te...

In the ‘’turn-on-your-webcam/turn-off-your-mic’’ world, we live in, we get to communicate with a variety of people from all around the world. All these points of view are exhilarating and the proximity to such diverse people is thrilling.

And when we are not on a video call of some sort, we scroll ...

Why does naming what works, what is doing well, and what is celebration-worthy feel like it requires us to go out of our way? And even when we do have something great happening, there is always someone, and that someone is often ourselves, reminding us of the flip side of that beautiful coin.