Alain Maindron

Alain Maindron is an animation supervisor.

In 1985, after his diploma from the art school of Angouleme, France, reputed for its comic strip departement, Alain animated on various pilots and tv series. He moved to London in 1987 to direct or work on animated commercials. and feature films ('Fievel, an American tail 2' at Universal pictures/Dreamwork, F.r.o.7 for Hollywood road productions) before going to work at Disney on 'Darkwing duck' at Disney in Australia.

In 1993, he met Andrew Spencer, a programmer and they created Ecstatica, a 3d game with pre-rendered 3d background set in a medieval fantasy universe. The success of this game let Alain pursue a career in the US, first at Shiny Entertainment (on Wild9, Sacrifice, Messiah) then Insomniac games/Universal(Spyro the dragon 1) and ‘The bard tales’ for Inxile.

Back in France in 2000, Alain Maindron got involved on several projects ('Arx fatalis' and ‘Dark Messiah of Might et magic’ at Arkane Studios, published by Ubisoft, 'Kaena-Axis'at Chaman Productions, 'Arthur et les Minimoys','Asterix' for Étranges Libellules, ‘Ratatouille’ for Pixar/Asobo, ‘Alexandra Leiderman’ and ‘Fashion academy’ for Lexis Numérique, as well as teaching animation at SupInfoGame and Emile Cohl and collaborating on short films.

In 2007, Alain moved to Canada to lead the animation on the first Prince of Persia destined for the wii console, at Ubisoft.

References

See Also

Archaeology and animation

In popular culture, the true nature and history of archaeology is often distorted through fictional...