Fabrice Joubert

Fabrice O. Joubert (* in France ) is a French animator and director of animation films.

Life

Joubert studied film at the University of Paris IV and finished his studies after four years with a master's. At the age of 22, he enrolled at Les Gobelins in Paris, a school specializing in animation. After completing his training, he worked from 1997 to 2006 in Los Angeles as an animator for DreamWorks Animation . His first work was while participating in the 2D film The Prince of Egypt , which was released in 1998. While working on Spirit , Joubert was asked in 2002 by one of the producers at DreamWorks “if I would object to being trained as a CGI animator so they could see if a traditional 2D animator could be could easily be transferred to the new medium [3D]. It might sound strange these days, but back then the producers weren't convinced that it would work. "

In 2005, Joubert worked in Bristol for Aardman on the stop-motion film Wallace & Gromit - On the hunt for the giant rabbit . After finishing the film, he returned to Paris and began directing his first animated film in 2007, French Roast . The film was produced by Pumpkin Factory / Bibo Films, with whose partner Bibo Bergeron Joubert had already worked at DreamWorks. The film received numerous international awards, including the jury award at the Anima Mundi Animation Festival and the Atlanta Film Festival, as well as an Academy Award nomination for best animated short film in 2010 . After Joubert worked as an animation director for the Universal film Despicable Me, work on A Monster in Paris , which had to be interrupted in 2008 , brought him back together in 2011 with Bibo Bergeron, who had taken over the production of the film. A monster in Paris , which had its film premiere in France in 2011, was also shown on German television in the summer of 2013.

Filmography

• 1998: The Prince of Egypt (The Prince of Egypt)
• 2000: The Road to El Dorado (The Road to El Dorado)
• 2002: Spirit - Der wilde Mustang (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)
• 2003: Sinbad : Legend of the Seven Seas
• 2004: Big Sharks - Small Fish (Shark Tale) - chief draftsman
• 2005: Wallace & Gromit - On the hunt for the giant rabbit (Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
• 2006: Flushed Away (Flushed Away) - supervising animator
• 2008: French Roast - director, screenplay
• 2010: I - Despicable (Despicable Me) - animation director
• 2011: A Monster in Paris (Un monstre à Paris) - animation direction

Awards

Joubert was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Short Film for French Roast 2010 .

Web links

• Fabrice Joubert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ramin Zahed: Fabrice O. Joubert, Director, French Roast . Animation Magazine, Aug 12, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "... one of the producers asked me if I would accept to be trained in CG to see if a traditional animator could easily transfer his skills to this new medium. It might sound senseless today, but at the time producers were not convinced that it could work. ”See interview with Joubert on cgtantra.com ( memento of the original from February 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Cf. The Oscars: Joubert Talks French Roast on awn.com ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.