Nicholas or Nico Marlet is a French-American character designer and animation artist.
February 07th, 2014
Nicholas or "Nico" Marlet is a French-American character designer and animation artist. First, he started his career as an Animator and he worked as a character designer on nine feature movies. His works, how to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda the world finally got to see his designs really make it to the screen. While early in his career, he worked on Disney television shows like TaleSpin and DuckTales. He worked on an unproduced animated version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. His work has looked in various "art of" books, including The Art of Kung Fu Panda, The Art of How to Train Your Dragon, The Art of Bee Movie, and his own limited edition sketchbook is containing some of his personal works. Marlet has worked with DreamWorks since the company’s beginnings; his first assignment, 13 years ago, was a never realized adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats.” He went on to design the armadillo for “The Road to El Dorado,” the roc bird in “Sinbad” and a lineup of unkempt critters for “Over the Hedge.” He completed his Graduation at CFT Gobelins in France, and he is an Annie award-winning animator and character designer who moved from his native France to California in the 90's. Nicolas Marlet's format is distinct from all other workshops, he simply creates an illustration. It is an observation of a master character artist at work. No commentary, no dialog, no distractions. Just Nico is doing what he does best; creating beautiful works of art.
Nico Marlet Animation Credits
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (animator) - 1990
TaleSpin – Plunder & Lightning (animator) - 1990
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (animator) - 1993
Balto (character designer, supervising animator: "Muk and Luk") - 1995
The Prince of Egypt (character designer) - 1998
The Road to El Dorado (character designer, supervising animator: "Armadillo") - 2000
Monsters, Inc. (visual development) - 2001
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (character designer) - 2003
Madagascar (character designer) - 2005
Over the Hedge (character designer) - 2006
Bee Movie (character designer) - 2007
French Roast (character designer) - 2008
Kung Fu Panda (character designer) - 2008
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (character designer) - 2008
How to Train Your Dragon (character designer) - 2010
Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special (character designer )- 2010
Kung Fu Panda 2 (character designer) - 2011
Book of Dragons (character designer) - 2011
Dragons: Riders of Berk (character designer for 1 episode) - We Are a Family Part II - 2013
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
a French-American character designer and animation artist. First, he started his career as an Animator and he worked as a character designer on nine feature movies. His works, how to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda the world finally got to see his designs really make it to the screen. While early in his career, he worked on Disney television shows like TaleSpin and DuckTales. He worked on an unproduced animated version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. His work has looked in various "art of" books, including The Art of Kung Fu Panda, The Art of How to Train Your Dragon, The Art of Bee Movie, and his own limited edition sketchbook is containing some of his personal works.
