Xavier Ramonède

Xavier Ramonède is a French animator and artist, best known for his work on various French films and international co-productions, such as Nocturna and The Illusionist, the French webseries Les Kassos, and his award-winning student film Le Building. Ramonède's artwork has also been featured in multiple publications. Currently, Ramonède is collaborating with Clarence Edgard-Rosa to develop new projects for Bobby Productions.

Xavier Ramonède
NationalityFrench
OccupationAnimator, illustrator
Years active2002-present

Early life and education

Ramonède hails from Toulouse.[1] He first became interested in drawing at the age of fourteen, after discovering manga. Over the following two years, he developed a strong passion for animation.[2] After meeting Romain Grandjean in high school, Ramonède was brought on as an animator and designer on Grandjean's 2002 stop motion short film Abraxas.[1][3]

Although Ramonède was inspired by Toy Story to pursue a career in computer animation, he changed course to pursue traditional animation after applying to Gobelins, l'École de l'image.[1] He attended there from 2002 to 2005.[4][5] In 2004, he created the short student film Récré Fighter,[6][7] and collaborated with classmates Pierre Perifel, Jun Frederic Violet, and Rémi Zaarour on a second short film, Festival Qualité.[8][9] The following year, he reteamed with Perifel and Zaarour to create his group thesis film, Le Building, which was also co-directed by Marco Nguyen and Olivier Staphylas. Le Building uses a combination of 2D and 3D animation.[10] Ramonède colored most of the film's traditional animation and also handled most of its compositing.[11] Le Building screened at numerous international film festivals and won several awards,[12][13][14][15][16] including Best Undergraduate Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.[15]

Ramonède has named Bruce Timm,[2][17] Jamie Hewlett, Milt Kahl, James Baxter, Robert McGinnis,[2] Mary Blair, and Miroslav Šašek as being among his artistic influences.[17]

Career

The same year as his graduation from Gobelins (2005), Ramonède received credit as an animator on the short film Imago, directed by Cédric Babouche.[18] The following year, Ramonède worked as an animator on Everyone's Hero.[19] Imago afforded Ramonède the opportunity to work with Perifel again, who served as one of the film's supervising animators.[18] The two further collaborated as animators on Nocturna and The Illusionist.[5][20][21][22]

Other animation credits of Ramonède's include various French films and international co-productions, such as 99 Francs,[23] Zarafa,[5][20] Titeuf,[19][24] and April and the Extraordinary World,[2][25] as well as the French webseries Les Kassos,[26][27] and the music video for C2C's song "Delta".[28] Ramonède has occasionally returned to Gobelins as a teacher and has also worked on various commercials.[4] A 2013 commercial that he worked on for Deezer uses Mcbess characters and received a Bronze Clio Award.[29][30] A 2015 project that he worked on, called Hippopolis, was directed by French artist Ugo Gattoni and serves as a companion to a scarf that Gattoni designed.[31]

Ramonède has been credited as an animator on Ankama's under-development television project Muffin Jack and Jeremy,[32] and he is currently developing two series with Clarence Edgard-Rosa for Bobby Productions - Q and G.I.R.L..[33][34][35][36]

Pin-up art by Ramonède is featured in Volume #1 of Dave Sim and Howard M. Shum's comic book series Gun Fu, which was published by Image Comics in 2005.[37][38] In 2009, Ramonède contributed to the book Terrible Yellow Eyes, which features artwork inspired by Where the Wild Things Are.[39][40] Ramonède also created artwork for a proposed art book tie-in to the French board game Color Warz, which in 2016, unsuccessfully sought funding through the French crowdfunding website Ulule.[41]

Daytime Emmy Award-nominated character designer Chris Battle, who has worked on such shows as The Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Laboratory,[42] has expressed admiration for Ramonède's body of work.[43]

References
  1. Xavier Ramonède (September 27, 2015). "Xavier Ramonède". animationinsider.com (Online). Interviewed by Laura. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  2. Xavier Ramonède (October 30, 2015). "Special interview with Xavier Ramonède". Pinuparena.com (Online). Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  3. Abraxas - Credits. Zarf Productions and Alcancia Films. 2002.
  4. Xavier Ramonède. "There's Something in the House". Indiegogo. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  5. Marc Aguesse (July 12, 2012). "There's something in the house, Dip N' Dance et Brigada (projets crowdfunding)". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  6. Marc Aguesse. "Récré Fighter (2004)". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  7. Marc Aguesse. "Projection de court-métrages français inspirés par le Japon". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  8. Marc Aguesse. "Festival qualité (2004)". Catsuka. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  9. Xavier Ramonède (April 15, 2009). "Le Building and Festival Qualité". Sushixav.blogspot.com. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  10. Stash staff (December 4, 2005). ""Le Building" - Student Film". Stash DVD Magazine. No. 15. San Antonio, Texas: Stash Media. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
  11. Xavier Ramonède. "Le Building – Team: Xavier Ramonède". le-building.com. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  12. "Chilemonos" (Press release) (in Spanish). Santiago: Chilemonos International Animation Festival. p. 9. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  13. Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Xavier Ramonède, Olivier Staphylas, and Rémi Zaarour. "Le Building - News, pg. 1". le-building.com. Retrieved August 21, 2016.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. Leo Barraclough (July 26, 2006). "Toons Catch Continental Drift". Variety. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  15. Eric Homan (September 26, 2006). "Talk to the Snail: OIAF Category E – Student Animation Competition". Frederator Studios. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  16. Olivier Staphylas. "Olivier Staphylas - Bio". staphylas.com. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  17. Xavier Ramonède (January 13, 2010). "Artist of the Week: Xavier Ramonède". PixelatedGeek (Online). Interviewed by Andrew Plein. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  18. Imago - Credits. Sacrebleu Productions and La Boîte Productions. 2005.
  19. Xavier Ramonède. "XAV - profile". Sushixav.blogspot.com. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  20. Severin Auer (July 15, 2012). "Crowdfunding: "There's Something In The House" von Xavier Ramonède". animationsfilme.ch (in German). Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  21. Pierre Perifel (November 27, 2012). "Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians". Animated Views (Online). Interviewed by Jérémie Noyer. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  22. David Hubert, Jason Ryan, Pierre Perifel (March 3, 2013). iAnimate interview Pierre Périfel - part 3 (video). iAnimate. Event occurs at 0:15-2:02. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  23. Marc Aguesse (March 12, 2007). "[Job] Stage sur 99 Fr (Jan Kounen)". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  24. "Titeuf, le film". Association française du cinéma d'animation (in French). Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  25. Marc Aguesse (December 6, 2015). "Et sinon cette semaine #48 (en bref)". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  26. Annecy staff. "2014 Official Selection, film index – Les Kassos "Épisodes 4, 6, 9" – The Dorks". Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  27. Xavier Ramonède (February 19, 2015). "Moc & Darty – Sachatte & Pedro – Les Kassos #17". Sushixav.blogspot.com. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  28. On Animation staff (February 19, 2016). "C2C - Delta". On Animation. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
  29. Gavin Lucas (January 24, 2013). "McBess illustrates new Deezer spot". Creative Review. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
  30. Deezer | Music Unleashed - CRCR - WIZZdesign. QUAD Productions. 2013.
  31. Marc Aguesse (November 15, 2015). "Hippopolis (pub pour un carré de soie Hermès par Ugo Gattoni)". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  32. Marc Aguesse (May 25, 2016). "Muffin Jack & Jeremy: Trailer (series project by Steak and Ankama)". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  33. Bobby Productions staff. "Q". Bobby Productions (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  34. Bobby Productions staff. "G.I.R.L." Bobby Productions (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  35. Marc Aguesse (November 28, 2016). "Après les Kassos : découvrez le pilote de Chmite (par Bobby Prod (et en attendant Mr Flap))". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  36. Alexis Paumard (July 20, 2016). "Les Kassos Peuvent-Ils Faire Oublier le Club Dorotheé?". Technikart. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  37. Howard M. Shum (August 12, 2017). "Howard M. Shum - News". howardshum.com. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
  38. Blair Marnell (June 18, 2005). "All the Rage: Faster than Light". Comics Bulletin. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  39. Marc Aguesse (September 23, 2009). "Terrible Yellow Eyes (Un collectif hommage à Max et les Maximonstres)". Catsuka (in French). Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  40. Cory Godbey (July 31, 2009). "king and crown". terribleyelloweyes.com. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  41. Fabien Friess (June 6, 2016). "Color Warz History from ISART Digital studies to FLUO Craft". Ulule. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
  42. "It's Not Just a Cartoon". emmys.com. November 12, 2016. Archived from the original on December 31, 2016.
  43. Chris Battle (August 12, 2010). "Chris Battle Interview". The Character Design Blog (Online). Interviewed by Randall Sly. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
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