In 1959 Paris, an out-of-work illusionist packs his belongings, including an ill-tempered rabbit, and moves to London. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this movie. Around 5% of the work (mainly inbetweening and clean-up) was completed in South Korea. The 2D part of animation sent in Paris has been executed at Neomis Animation studio, where the animation department was directed by Antoine Antin and the clean-up department by Grégory Lecocq. The film was primarily animated in Scottish Studios in Edinburgh (Django Films) and Dundee (ink.digital), with further animation done in Paris and London. Around 180 creatives were involved, 80 of whom had previously worked on The Triplets of Belleville (in The Scotsman, Chomet cites 300 people and 80 animators). The film was made at Chomet's Edinburgh film studio, Django Films, by an international group of animators directed by Paul Dutton, including Sydney Padua, Greg Manwaring and Jacques Muller. Chomet has said that Tati's youngest daughter, Sophie Tatischeff, had suggested an animated film when Chomet was seeking permission to use a clip from Tati's 1949 film Jour de fête as she did not want an actor to play her father. Catalogued in the Centre National de la Cinématographie archives under the impersonal moniker "Film Tati Nº 4", the script was passed to Chomet by the caretakers of Tati's oeuvre, Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff after Chomet's previous film The Triplets of Belleville was premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. According to the 2006 reading of the script at the London Film School introduced by Chomet, "The great French comic Jacques Tati wrote the script of The Illusionist and intended to make it as a live action film with his daughter". Controversy surrounds Tati's motivation for the script, which was written as a personal letter to his estranged eldest daughter, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schie in collaboration with his long-term writing partner Henri Marquet, between writing for the films Mon Oncle and Play Time. Originally intended to be set in Czechoslovakia, Chomet relocated the film to Scotland in the late 1950s. The plot revolves around a struggling illusionist who visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician. The main character of the movie is a version of Tati animated by several people under the lead of Laurent Kircher. The film is based on an unproduced script written by French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1956. The Illusionist is an animation movie produced by Django Films and directed by Sylvain Chomet in 2010.
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