Yves Geleyn grew up in Paris and initially started off in a career playing Rugby! After a few other short lived ambitions he decided upon becoming a designer. Yves' background has mainly been in print, working on poster designs, book and cd covers, but has also worked on installations and signage, mainly for large museums and other cultural establishments. His move into motion was a natural progression and one of his first shorts "Soot Giant," still gets shown at animation festivals and screenings. The short shows a long legged giant walking through a city eating the soot from peoples chimneys, it uses great compositing skills and character design and the soft music also gives it an interesting feel. My favourite pieces he has done are "Kotori" and "One after the other" which have a very nice simple illustrative style with interesting and unique textures and patterns to give the animations colour. Kotori I think is very similar in style to Gabriel Gareso's "Mtv birds" video although I am not sure which was produced first.
Top: Kotori, Bottom: Mtv Birds,
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