Jacques Rouxel

Student of the lycée français de New York in 1946, he returned at the École des Hautes études commerciales, from which he graduated. His taste for the drawing develops late, during his military service. From 1957, he joined different agencies advertising in the capacity of editor, and advertising manager. As early as 1961, it she discovers the world of audiovisual and becomes an independent producer, primarily promotional films. Sensitive to the surrealism of Alfred Jarry and the quirky humor anglo-saxon, it was in 1965 that he entered the service of the research of the ORTF where he works on the Animographe, a new prototype of a drawing machine animated. It is on this occasion that he imagines characters illustrated, the Shadoks and the Gibis, who are realized in several TV-series (1968, 1969, 1972, and 2000). In 1973, with Marcelle Ponti and Jean-Paul Couturier, he founded the studio aaa (animation, art graphique audiovisuel). He is the author of approximately 80 films : short films and a series of command, educational, institutional, or advertising of very high quality, laced with humor and poetry and tagged often clinker meanly winks or traits Shadokiens. He also signed between 1994 and 2000 six albums dedicated to the Shadoks in which two comics. The fourth series of the Shadoks, " The Shadoks and the big blank ", has been broadcast on Canal+ in 2000. His ashes stored in the columbarium of the Père-lachaise (check no. 2025).