Claude Cloutier is a Quebec film animator and illustrator who has to
date made seven short films with the National Film Board of Canada.
Cloutier began his animation career with the 1988 short The Persistent
Peddler (Le colporteur), which was in competition at the Cannes Film
Festival. He first became widely known for From the Big Bang to
Tuesday Morning (Du big bang à mardi matin) in 2000, which was both a
Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 21st Genie
Awards, and a Jutra Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the
3rd Jutra Awards.His 2007 short Sleeping Betty (Isabelle au bois
dormant) is a humorous Sleeping Beauty adaptation that received
numerous international and Canadian awards including both the Genie
and the Jutra. His most recent film, the 2015 short Carface (Auto
Portraits), received the Prix Guy-L.-Coté Best Canadian Animation
Film at Sommets du cinéma d'animation in Montreal and had been
shortlisted for a possible Academy Award nomination.Cloutier has said
that in his youth, it had been his dream to become an animated
filmmaker and that when he began working as an illustrator, he did so
with the hope of being able to transition 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 hoped-for entry
into animation came when an NFB producer asked him if he wished to
adapt La légende des Jean-Guy into an animated short, which resulted
in 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, during which the public could watch him working on his next
film. Cloutier has said his animation technique involves working first
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."
date made seven short films with the National Film Board of Canada.
Cloutier began his animation career with the 1988 short The Persistent
Peddler (Le colporteur), which was in competition at the Cannes Film
Festival. He first became widely known for From the Big Bang to
Tuesday Morning (Du big bang à mardi matin) in 2000, which was both a
Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 21st Genie
Awards, and a Jutra Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the
3rd Jutra Awards.His 2007 short Sleeping Betty (Isabelle au bois
dormant) is a humorous Sleeping Beauty adaptation that received
numerous international and Canadian awards including both the Genie
and the Jutra. His most recent film, the 2015 short Carface (Auto
Portraits), received the Prix Guy-L.-Coté Best Canadian Animation
Film at Sommets du cinéma d'animation in Montreal and had been
shortlisted for a possible Academy Award nomination.Cloutier has said
that in his youth, it had been his dream to become an animated
filmmaker and that when he began working as an illustrator, he did so
with the hope of being able to transition 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 hoped-for entry
into animation came when an NFB producer asked him if he wished to
adapt La légende des Jean-Guy into an animated short, which resulted
in 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, during which the public could watch him working on his next
film. Cloutier has said his animation technique involves working first
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."
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