Sylvain Chomet

Sylvain Chomet (born 1963) is a French animator and film director. Born in Maisons-Lafitte, near Paris, he studied art at high school until he graduated in 1982. In 1986 he published his first comic, Secrets of the Dragonfly. Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum Studio. In September of that year, he established a freelance practice, workiong on commercials for clients such as Principality, Renault, Sinton, and Swiss Air. In 1991, Chomet started work on his first animated film La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons, with backgrounds designed by Nicolas de Crecy.... Skipping head, his first feature-length animated film, Les Triplettes de Belleville, was also nominated for two Oscars in 2003, and introduced Chomet's name to a much wider audience.