People Behind the Scenes: Interview with Despicable Me animator Maxime Maleo : Bollywood News

Animation powers the advertisement and the entertainment industry. With that being said, an influx of 3D animated films is happening in the near future. The latest to hit the Indian market is the Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of GaHoole which is being touted as the animated version of the epic film 300.

The layman always to some extent harbors misleading notions about animation; animation can get quite confusing if you dont know what it is. By definition animation is an illusion of movement or the process to give life to. There are a thousand possibilities of executing a shot with character animation, but its the process that matters, says Despicable Me character animator Maxime (Max) Maleo.

Character animation is a dedicated process concerning the animator who is the actor behind the digital puppets performance on screen. In animation, dialogues are dubbed during pre-production and are used as reference points for animators to understand the scene or situation that the characters in question are in. The animators performance counts in making a good film.

Max, who worked on Madagascar 2 says, In DreamWorks there are such passionate animators, theyre all killer man. The French artist doesnt consider his work comparable even though he has the credit of being the youngest supervisor from France to supervise animation at Crest Animation Studios in Mumbai.

In this exclusive People Behind the Scenes interview Bollywood Hungamas Philip Bode brings you an animated conversation with French animator of Despicable Me fame, Maxime Maleo.