ARIOL SEASON 2 (2016)
Professionnal Project
Assistant Producer - Assistant Director
2016 - 2D Animated TV show for Canal +
WORK FEATURE
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Worked in a 50+ person studio
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Designed production tables for the Director and the Producer
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Designed documents for the teams
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Breakdown list
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Checked the screenplays
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Recruited artists
Ariol season 2 is a 2d animated TV show for kids adapted from the famous french comics Ariol. I worked in Folimage Studios as an Assistant Producer/Director during a 4-month internship. The season 2 has 52 episodes of 12 minutes.
I worked with a large team of 60 people from different sectors and with different skills, such as 2D animators, producers, directors or 2D artists.
As an assistant producer, I worked mainly on the "producing" side of the project but I also worked closely with the directors.
Ariol and his friends at the museum
THE PRODUCING SIDE
Producing such a huge project was a real challenge. For a first professional work, I've learnt a lot about team managing and communication. Thanks to that, I always try to anticipate production problems, see what can cost a lot on a production and communicate everything needed with my colleagues. It helped me a lot for my game projects.
As a producer assistant, I did things such as :
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managing the recruitment of many artists (replying to the applications, answering their questions, sending them the tests and doing the follow-up)
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preparing documents for the recording sessions for the voice actors
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designing a sheet for the follow-up of the voicelines recorded according to the script modifications and doing the follow-up
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communicating the needs of the project with our partners (like the recording studio or the lip sync. compagny)
Cover of one Ariol Comic Book.
I've also seen a lot of sheets about budgets and did so many reunion reports !
THE DIRECTING SIDE
As said before, I had the chance to work with the directors of the projects. I did many tasks with them and I adapted some of their workflow for my own projects like Code S-44 , Show me the Way or Detective Jackie
When I joined the directors, the projects was still in pre-production so I had the opportunity to :
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check a lot of scripts and give some advice of directing. (the writing process of the episode was long and the scripts had to be written like 4 times because of incoherence or dialogues not sounding right when they're spoken.)
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doing breakdown lists of these scripts in order to know what has to be created. It was my first introduction to WBS style workflow !
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see how storyboards or animatics are made. It helped me understand the whole pipeline of production of cinematics.
One Storyboard page of the first episode from the season 2 !
ABOUT FOLIMAGE
Founded in 1981 by Jacques-Remy Girerd in Valence(FRANCE), Folimage is a 2d animation studio worldwide known. Producing full-lenght animated movies, Folimage also creates a lot short films or animated series but also distributes franchise such as Wallace & Gromit. They also got an Oscar nomination for "A cat's Life"(Une vie de Chat)
Some of Folimage biggest success.