Dominique Monféry is a French director, storyboard artist, illustrator, and animator.

Career

Monféry started his career at Disney in 1990 with '' DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp'', working as an animator and animation supervisor. He was an animator of the character

Claude Frollo Claude Frollo () is a fictional Christian clergyman and the main antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel '' The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (original French title: ''Notre-Dame de Paris''). He is also an alchemist, Renaissance humanist, and intell ...

from '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. He also worked as an animation supervisor on ''

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'' (on the characters Titans and Cyclops), ''

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'' (on the character

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), ''

The Emperor's New Groove ''The Emperor's New Groove'' is a 2000 American animated fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Mark Dindal and produced by Randy Fullmer, from a screenplay writte ...

'' and ''

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''.

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hired Monféry to direct the animated short film ''

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'', after

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returned to the project in 1999. It was Monféry's first film as a director. Monféry continued working at Disney until 2006 with '' The Fox and the Hound 2''. When the Walt Disney Feature Animation studio in Paris closed, Monféry co-created Welldone Films. His first feature film was the French-Canadian '' Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure'' in 2006, after which he directed the French-Italian feature film '' Eleanor's Secret'', which was shown at the

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Gaumont Animation Gaumont Animation (formerly known as Alphanim and Gaumont Alphanim) is a History of French animation, French animation studio owned by Gaumont (company), Gaumont founded in February 1997 by Christian Davin. The company's animated catalog compris ...

was involved in producing both films, formerly known under the name Alphanim. Monféry is also a graphic novel illustrator. His first work was ''Tin Lizzie'', edited and distributed by Swiss Editions Paquet (2015). The story is based on the Ford Model T, nicknamed

Tin Lizzie The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first mass-affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. Th ...

. The first part was released at the end of January 2015, and the second part was released in early July 2015. The story was written by Thierry Chafouin, who also worked with Disney as a storyboard artist. Monféry also created the concept and animation of ''Au Fil de l' Eau'' (''On Flying Water''), an animated short musical film on the metaphor of life (little water drops). The film earned several distinctions throughout the year, some shared between Monféry and the producer and composer Julia Pajot, both for the concept and the original score. This film was released for a week in September 2015 in Los Angeles. Originally working as a director on an animated film adaptation of

Jack London John Griffith London (; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t ...

's novel ''

White Fang ''White Fang'' is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) about a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. First serialized in ''Outing'' magazin ...

'', Monféry is working on the screenplay.

References

External links

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Monfery at Internet Animation Database
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