Kristof Serrand Animation

Kristof Serrand (Born? ) is a French supervising animator who worked for studios like Amblimation and Dreamworks.

Special thanks to Jamaal Bradley for providing some of the pencil tests that Kristof Serrand animated.

List of movies presented:

The Prince of Egypt (1998)(DreamWorks)
An American Tail (1991)(Amblimation)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)(Amblimation)
The Road to El Dorado (2000)(DreamWorks)(Altivo)
Balto (1995)(Amblimation)(Boris)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)(DreamWorks)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)(DreamWorks)
Clochard (Work in progress).

Music: Antonio Vivaldi_ Concerto for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in C major (RV 559) - I. Larghetto; (Allegro).

If I made any mistakes in this reel, feel free to point them out.

Note: For the record, NO, I DON'T OWN ANY OF THESE CARTOONS IN THIS VIDEO REEL. This video was made for "educational" and "instructional" purposes, so this would fall into the category of "fair use". These cartoons belong to their respective companies or creators. NO INFRINGEMENT INTENDED (This goes for music as well).

[emcvideoproductions]

The work he did on Moses is truly worthy of respect and admiration.

[SpiderandMosquito]

This is interesting to watch because it reminds me something that I often forget about the industry; in case you guys don't know this most times specific characters will be animated by a single individual and or their underlings for whom they basically play director on this character's performance. If you wonder why all the Clips in for example The Road to El Dorado shown here seem to feature altivo the horse clearly that's because he was the one who is actually animating altivo. Yeah you usually look at a scene and think that it must be one guy doing all the characters or more accurately one guy drawing the key frames for the entire scene with the animators filling in but actually no animators will often act like directors and actors playing the role of the character they are actually assigned characters it's interesting it's something we take for granted and I think that's part of the reason why especially in feature films certain characters come to life si well its because they have very personal touch from an individual with a special perspective. I don't know if this is standard in TV animation but I have often felt there's always been a personal reality in movie animation that I don't often see on television and I think this might be it it's not the fact that there's more money there for more movement I think maybe the absence of designated animators on a character ends up making the animation more consistent but also less personal at times. It lacks the human personality behind this specific characters performance. Please correct me if I'm wrong though in this regard I'm only talking about what I do know and have learned with elements of embellishment due to speculation. I do know that TV animation usually is has never done in-house it's send to Korea and Japan Studios with the in-house work being largely keyframe animation and storyboards/animatics

[MatthewDavidson-ekxw]

These animations look just like Milt Kahl, Andreas Deja, William Salazar and Matt Williames.

[joshh]

Can you help me with my Cecil Surry reel by telling me what scenes he did? Thank you.

[damongomez]

Are there any other Amblimation animator reels besides Kristof’s?