Maël Gourmelen

Work History

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  Designer

  Mikros Image

  October 2015 - Present

• Visual Development Artist

  Headless Productions

  March 2015 - Present

  Character design for an upcoming feature film project

• visual development artist

  Headless

  April 2015 - June 2015
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  Character Animator

  Prima Linea Productions

  December 2014 - March 2015

  Hand drawn character animation on the movie The red turtle from Michaël Dudok de Wit / Prima Linea / Studio Ghibli.
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  Freelance Character Animator

  LAIKA/house

  October 2014 - November 2014

  Hand drawn character animation on some commercials.
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  Freelance Visual development artist

  Aardman Animations

  July 2014 - August 2014

  Visual development on a feature film directed by Peter Lord

• Freelance Designer

  The Foundation

  March 2014 - August 2014

  Character design for a TV show directed by Jan Lachauer.
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  Character Animator

  Fortiche Production

  May 2014 - June 2014

  2D animation on a musical video clip directed by Juanjo Guarnido / Fortiche Production
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  Animation Instructor

  GOBELINS

  February 2014 - May 2014
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  Freelance Character Animator

  Laika

  January 2014 - February 2014

  2D animation on the movie Boxtrolls from Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi / Laika LLC

  
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  Freelance Character Animator

  Disney Consumer Products

  December 2013 - January 2014

  2D animation on a special project.
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  Character Animator

  DreamWorks Animation

  September 2012 - October 2013

  - Character animator on the movie Me and my Shadow from Alessandro Carloni / Dreamworks Animation.
  
  - Character animator on the short film Kung Fu Panda, Secret of the scroll from Rodolphe Guenoden / Dreamworks Animation.
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  Character Designer

  Illumination Mac Guff

  November 2011 - March 2012

  Character design on "Despicable me 2" from Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin / Illumination Universal
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  Visual Development Artist

  Mikros Image

  January 2012 - January 2012

  Colorscript references on the movie Asterix and the Land of the Gods from Louis Clichy and Alexandre Astier / M6 / Mikros Image.

  
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  Animation Instructor

  GOBELINS

  March 2011 - March 2011
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  Senior Character Animator

  Prima Linea Productions

  October 2010 - February 2011

  Character animation on "Zarafa" from Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie
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  Trainee Character Animator

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  February 2010 - August 2010

  - Character animation on "Winnie the Pooh" from Don Hall and Steve Anderson / Disney Feature Animation
  
  - Visual development work on "Wreck-it-Ralph" from Rich Moore / Disney Feature Animation

• Character Animator

  Headless Productions

  October 2009 - January 2010

  Character animation on "I'm a monster", trailer for a feature animation movie from Adrian Garcia, Alfredo Torres and Victor Maldonado.
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  Character Animator

  Neomis Animation

  August 2008 - May 2009

  Character animation on "The Illusionist" from Sylvain Chomet / Pathé productions
  Character design and animation on "Ruby Tuesday" from Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi / Europacorp
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  Character Designer

  Neomis Animation

  August 2007 - August 2007

  Character design on "The Illusionist" from Sylvain Chomet / Pathé productions
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  Trainee Visual Development artist

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  July 2007 - August 2007

  Contribution on "Rapunzel" (which turned to "Tangled" afterwards), as a Visual development trainee.

  

• Assistant animator

  Bibo Films/JSBC

  July 2006 - August 2006

  Assistant animator on "Persepolis" from Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud / Bibo films / JSBC