Alain Maindron is an animation supervisor.

In 1985, after his diploma from the art school of Angoulême

Angoulême

-Main sights:In place of its ancient fortifications, Angoulême is encircled by boulevards above the old city walls, known as the Remparts, from which fine views may be obtained in all directions. Within the town the streets are often narrow. Apart from the cathedral and the hôtel de ville, the...

, France, reputed for its comic strip département, Alain animated on various pilots and TV series. He moved to London in 1987 to direct or work on animated commercials. and feature films (Fievel, an American Tail 2 at Universal Pictures/Dreamworks

DreamWorks

DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming...

, F.r.o.7 for Hollywood Road productions) before going to work at Disney on Darkwing Duck

Darkwing Duck

DarkWing Duck is an American animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991–1992 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on ABC. It featured the eponymous anthropomorphic duck superhero whose alter ego is mild-mannered...

at Disney in Australia.

In 1993, he met Andrew Spencer, a programmer and they created Ecstatica

Ecstatica

Ecstatica is an action-adventure game for MS-DOS that was released by Psygnosis in 1994 on 3½" floppy disk and CD-ROM.The game is notable for using a unique type of "ellipsoid" graphics to display characters. Each character is made of ellipsoids approximating different types of body. The...

, a 3D game with pre-rendered 3D background set in a medieval fantasy universe. The success of this game let Alain pursue a career in the US, first at Shiny Entertainment

Shiny Entertainment

Shiny Entertainment was an American video game developer based in Laguna Beach, Southern California, and the creator of several popular titles such as Earthworm Jim, MDK, Sacrifice and The Matrix: Path of Neo. Shiny was founded by David Perry in October 1993...

 (on Wild9, Sacrifice, Messiah) then Insomniac Games

Insomniac Games

Insomniac Games, Inc. is an American video game developer headquartered in Burbank, California. Founded in 1994, Insomniac has released titles for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. It created Disruptor, the first three Spyro the Dragon games, and the Ratchet &...

/Universal (Spyro the Dragon 1) and ‘The bard tales’ for Inxile.

Back in France in 2000, Alain Maindron got involved on several projects ('Arx fatalis' and ‘Dark Messiah of Might et magic’ at Arkane Studios

Arkane Studios

Arkane Studios is a video game developer based in Lyon, France. It was founded in 1999, and released its first game, Arx Fatalis, in 2002. Arkane Studios opened an Austin, Texas-based office in July 2006....

, published by Ubisoft

Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

, 'Kaena-Axis' at Chaman Productions, 'Arthur et les Minimoys', 'Asterix' for Étranges Libellules

Étranges Libellules

Étranges Libellules is a French video game developer based out of Lyon, France. It was founded in 1994.-Games produced:* 2000 - Kirikou - PlayStation, PC - published by Wanado Edition...

, ‘Ratatouille’ for Pixar

Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...

/Asobo, ‘Alexandra Leiderman’ and ‘Fashion academy’ for Lexis Numérique, as well as teaching animation at SupInfoGame

Supinfogame

Supinfogame is the first French school dedicated to the Videogame Industry. Located in Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes, it is one of the 3 schools of SUPINFOCOM GROUP, with Supinfocom and ISD. Based on a CCI initiative and launched in 2001, Supinfogame trains students to game design, game art, production...

 and Emile Cohl and collaborating on short films.

In 2007, Alain moved to Canada to lead the animation on the first Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner and released in 1989 for the Apple II, that represented a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in video games....

destined for the wii

Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...

 console, at Ubisoft

Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

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