Claude Cloutier
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His 2007 short ''Sleeping Betty (Isabelle au bois dormant)'' is a humorous Sleeping Beauty adaptation that received numerous international and Canadian awards including bhe Genie and the Jutra. His 2015 short ''Carface (Auto Portraits)'', received the Prix Guy-L.-Coté Best Canadian Animation Film at Sommets du cinéma d'animation in Montreal and was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination.
Cloutier has said that in his youth, it was his dream to be an animated filmmaker and that when he began working as an illustrator, he did so with the hope of transitioning into animation. He worked most notably as an illustrator with the now-defunct Quebec satirical magazine ''Croc'', with two comic book-style series, ''La légende des Jean-Guy'' and ''Gilles la Jungle contre Méchant-Man.'' His entry into animation came when an NFB producer asked if he wished to adapt ''La légende des Jean-Guy'' into an animated short, which became ''The Persistent Peddler''.
The summer of 2015, Cloutier did a two-week "Frame x Frame" exhibition at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, where the public could watch him working on his next film. He says he begins working with paper and ink: "I draw on paper with brush, India ink and water, for nuance and half-tones. After that, it's colored by computer. I like to draw on paper. I'm old-school." Provided by Wikipedia
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