Le Bibendum céleste, Premier tome by Nicolas de Crécy

Another major setback was the studio's failure to secure funding for The Clan, an animated sitcom for BBC. The studio was set up with the ambition of establishing itself in both animation and live-action filmmaking, but has since been dismantled due to several production difficulties, first losing funding for what was to be the studio's first animated feature, Barbacoa, to have been directed by Chomet. In 2004, Chomet founded Django Films, an animation studio based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The visual style of The Triplets of Belleville closely resembles the earlier work of de Crécy's 1994 graphic novel Le Bibendum Céleste.

Upon the film's release, de Crécy accused Chomet of plagiarizing his work, citing it as the reason for the dissolution of their collaboration. It also received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.Ĭhomet's first feature-length animated film, The Triplets of Belleville was also nominated for two Oscars in 2003 (Best Animated Feature and Best Song), and introduced Chomet's name to a much wider audience. The short film won him a BAFTA, the Grand Prize at the 1997 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the Cartoon d'or prize, as well as the Audience Prize and Jury Prize at the Angers Premiers Plans Festival. In 1991, Chomet started work on his first animated film, The Old Lady and the Pigeons, with backgrounds designed by Nicolas de Crécy. This won them the Alph-Art Best Comic Prize at the Angoulême Comics Festival. In 1997, Chomet published Ugly, Poor, and Sick, again with de Crécy. This was published in 1995 and won the René Goscinny Prize in 1996. 1993 saw Chomet writing the story for Léon-la-Came, which was drawn by Nicolas de Crécy for À Suivre magazine.

In 1992 Chomet wrote the script for a science fiction comic called The Bridge in Mud.

In addition to his animation career, Chomet has created many print comics, starting in 1986 with Secrets of the Dragonfly. In September of that year, he established a freelance practice, working on commercials for clients such as Principality, Renault, Swinton and Swissair. Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum studio. Sylvain Chomet ( French: born 10 November 1963) is a French comic writer, animator and film director.īorn in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), near Paris, he studied art at high school until he graduated in 1982.

Le Bibendum céleste, Premier tome by Nicolas de Crécy