Leclerc, Philippe

   Having trained as a musician, he joined the animation workshop of the Beaux-Arts of Reims. In the early 1980s, he settled in Paris, where he made his film debut as a trace and paint artist (1976 Les Douze Travaux d'Astérix, René Goscinny, Henri Gruel, Albert Uderzo, Pierre Watrin) and successively worked as an animator (1980 Le Roi et l'Oiseau, Paul Grimault; 1988 La Table tournante, Paul Grimault) and first assistant director (1988 Gandahar / USA: Light Years, France / North Korea) before directing his own animated films. In 1992, he founded his own studio, Praxinos. He appeared as himself in the documentary Paul Grimault, image par image (Fabienne Issartel, 2003).

 Filmography

2003 ◘ Les Enfants de la Pluie (animation; also co-screenwriter; France / South Korea)

2007 ◘ La Reine Soleil (animation; also background designer; Belgium / France / Hungary)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ The Animals of Farthing Wood / Als die Tiere den Wald verliessen (animation; also character designer; episodes "Whistler's Quarry", "A Deathly Calm", "The Wood in Danger", "So Near and Yet So Far . . . ", "Through Fire and Trough Water", "New Friends, Old Enemies", "Who Shall Wear the Crown?"; UK / Germany / France)

        ◘ The Animals of Farthing Wood / Als die Tiere den Wald verliessen (animation; also character de­signer; episodes "Like Father, Like Son", "New Enemies", "Winter", "Survival", "Shadows", "A Joke Backfires", "A Time of Reckoning"; UK / Germany / France)

        ◘ The Animals of Farthing Wood / Als die Tiere den Wald verliessen (animation; also character designer; episodes "The Worst Kind of Hur­ricane", also storyboard artist; "The Long-Tailed Visitor", also storyboard artist; "The Missing Fox's Friend", also storyboard artist; "Tiffs and Tempers", also storyboard artist; "Out and About", also storyboard artist; "A Bigger Oink", also storyboard artist; "Bully-Bully-Bully", also storyboard artist; UK / Germany / France)

1997 ◘ Noah's island (animation; 39 X 25'; co-director with Alan Simpson, UK)