New companies open in sunny South
PARIS -- With its sunny weather, scenic coastline and sumptuous villas, Provence could almost be California.
The similarity hasn't escaped a growing number of French animators who have ankled well-paying jobs in Hollywood to return home -- but can't face the idea of life back in cold, gray Paris.
"It's about quality of life," says Erwan Maigret, a former R&D technical lead at DreamWorks Animation, who spent 10 years Stateside working on films such as "Shrek 2," "Madagascar," "Over the Hedge" and "Shrek the Third" before returning to his native land.
Last September, Maigret, fellow DreamWorks transplant Arnauld Lamorlette and a group of like-minded animation colleagues came to the region to found the Bakery Animation, a studio aiming to be a European challenger to Pixar and DreamWorks. Backed by Turkish entrepreneur Yalcin Cevikel, the Bakery is developing its own proprietary software and says it will begin production on its first feature-length toon two years from now.
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PARIS -- With its sunny weather, scenic coastline and sumptuous villas, Provence could almost be California.
The similarity hasn't escaped a growing number of French animators who have ankled well-paying jobs in Hollywood to return home -- but can't face the idea of life back in cold, gray Paris.
"It's about quality of life," says Erwan Maigret, a former R&D technical lead at DreamWorks Animation, who spent 10 years Stateside working on films such as "Shrek 2," "Madagascar," "Over the Hedge" and "Shrek the Third" before returning to his native land.
Last September, Maigret, fellow DreamWorks transplant Arnauld Lamorlette and a group of like-minded animation colleagues came to the region to found the Bakery Animation, a studio aiming to be a European challenger to Pixar and DreamWorks. Backed by Turkish entrepreneur Yalcin Cevikel, the Bakery is developing its own proprietary software and says it will begin production on its first feature-length toon two years from now.
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