After being a stupid idiot at school, I finally found my way studying graphic design at the Penninghen art school in Paris. Following graduation, I had to give a year to the French army. I landed in the army’s cinema department where I learned the basics of animation and CGI. I also learned a lot about football.
When they released me, I co-founded H5, a graphic design studio, with my friend Ludovic Houplain. Knowing nothing about the business, working in the kitchen, our first client was a funeral parlor. We then bought our first super expensive Macintosh and started to work for record labels, making cover designs and art for some of the “French Touch” artists like Etienne de Crecy, Alex Gopher, Air, Demon, etc.
We then had the opportunity to make music videos. The first one we did was “The Child”, for Alex Gopher, using only type fonts. People talked about it, and it opened us to the world of directing. (A few years after, H5 won an Academy Award with “Logorama”, a short film made only with Logotypes, and “The Child” is in museums collections).
I then had the opportunity to make commercials. Lots of fun, very well paid. I worked for many brands around the world, won some awards (Honda “Cog” was in the Guinness Book for the most awarded commercial in the history of advertising). And I learned the job.
I then had the opportunity to make my first feature film : Moonwalkers, which was selected at SXSW, staring Ron Perlman, Ruppert Grint and Robert Sheehan.
