Magali has worked in the animation industry for nearly 30 years
After spending some time working in Paris early on in her career, she went to Industrial Light & Magic in California and worked as an animator on VFX films such as Dragonheart, Mars Attack, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Episode I & II, The Mummy Returns, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Van Helsing.
After almost a decade at the studio in San Francisco, she decided to broaden her experience to work on animated films and in 2004, she joined the Sydney team at Animal Logic as a lead animator to work on George Miller's Happy Feet. The film went on to win the Academy Award in 2007 for best Animated Feature Film.
Other credits include Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Maya the Bee Movie, Monsters Hunt, LEGO Batman, Peter Rabbit and The LEGO Movie 2.
Magali recently joined Animal Logic again as an animation supervisor after anim directing on Maya the Bee - The Golden Orb at Flying Bark and Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness for the Belgian studio nWave Digital.
Work History
Animation Supervisor
Animal Logic
May 2022 - December 2022
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Animation Director
nWave Digital
April 2020 - January 2022
Belgium
Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness
Animation Director
Flying Bark Productions
February 2019 - November 2019
Sydney, Australia
Maya the Bee - The Golden Orb
Animation Lead
Animal Logic
September 2015 - December 2018
Sydney, Australia
Animation Lead
Animal Logic
June 2018 - December 2018
Sydney, Australia
Animation Lead on 'The Lego Movie 2'
Animation Lead
Iloura
September 2014 - July 2015
Sydney, Australia
Lead the animation team and liaised with rigging and R&D on Alex Proyas' 'Gods of Egypt'