Le Bibendum céleste, Premier tome by Nicolas de Crécy

The visual style of Les Triplettes de Belleville closely resembles the earlier work of Nicolas De Crécy's 1994 graphic novel Le Bibendum Celeste.Ĭhomet's next movie was the traditionally-animated feature film The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste), which premiered at the Berlinale in February 2010, after many delays (it was first planned for release in 2007) The Illusionist, like Chomet's previous work, has its roots in mid twentieth century popular French culture. Upon the release of The Triplets of Belleville Nicolas De Crécy accused Chomet of plagarising his work, citing it as the reason for the dissolution of their collaboration. It also received an Oscar nomination for best animated short film.Ĭhomet's first feature-length animated film, The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville, or Belleville Rendez-vous in the UK) 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 Annecy Festival, the Cartoon d'or prize, as well as the Audience Prize and Jury Prize at the Angers Premiers Plans Festival. During 19, he finished work on The Old Lady and the Pigeons. In 1991, Chomet started work on his first animated film The Old Lady and the Pigeons (La Vieille Dame et les pigeons), with backgrounds designed by Nicolas De Crécy. This won them the Alph-Art Best Comic Prize at the Angoulême Comic Strip Festival. In 1997, Chomet published Ugly, Poor, and Sick, again with Nicolas 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 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.

Sylvain Chomet (born 1963) is a French comic writer, animator and film director.īorn in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, near Paris, he studied art at high-school until he graduated in 1982.Ĭhomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum studio.

Le Bibendum céleste, Premier tome by Nicolas de Crécy