10th Mar 2014
Marcel Jean at Gobelins Annecy
Marcel Jean spent two days with students on the 3D Character Animator course at Gobelins, l’école de l’image in Annecy.
As part of their course, these students had the opportunity to welcome the Annecy Festival's Artistic Director.
Over the two days, Marcel Jean presented an overview of the history of animation complemented with extracts from a number of films.
Content:
- animation pioneers: Georges Méliès, Winsor McCay, Émile Cohl etc.
- the onset of cels and the industrialisation of cartoons in 1915
- characters from studios: Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop
- Disney vs Tex Avery
- the end of the Golden Age of cartoon in the 50s with the advent of television: quantity over quality and the creation of the Hanna-Barbera studio
- the birth of the concept of animated film in 1960 and the creation of the Annecy Festival.
As well as being Artistic Director of the Festival and teacher at the University of Montreal, Marcel Jean is also a film critic, writer, studio and film director.