Thierry Marchand
Artist and Director in Paris, France
Thierry Marchand
Artist and Director in Paris, France
After working as a computer engineer in France and Germany for a couple of years, I decided to follow my passion for 3D animation and graduated in 2007 from Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image.
I was fortunate enough to have my graduation animated short film, Oktapodi, which I co-directed, earn numerous international awards - it was even nominated for an Oscar in 2009. After graduating, I worked as a 3D Character Animator at VFX studio Framestore in London and DreamWorks’ animation studio in Bangalore, India.
In the last five years, and while developing my very own animated feature film, I have served as a visual development artist, an animation supervisor and a freelance director on small- and big-scale projects with different animation studios located in Europe and Asia.
Most recently, I worked as an episodic director on the third season of hit animated TV series Angelo Rules, which was co-produced by U.K. kids/family entertainment distributors Cake Entertainment and France's TeamTO, and will air in France in 2016.
I was born and raised in France, but I am fluent in English and German. I am always interested in hearing about cool directing gigs (in Europe, the U.S., Asia or anywhere else, really) and meeting new, interesting people so don't hesitate to hit me up here or via Passion Pictures who represents me in the U.K.!