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Yanis Belaid announced that he has been promoted to the role of director at nWave studios. A crowning achievement for the young artist, who comes from the Pikture school.
Before nWave, The Seine’s Tears
In 2021, the short film The Seine’s Tears received a warm welcome. Directed by students from French Digital art school Piktura (which was still called Pôle 3D at the time), it combined a strong topic and a bold artistic approac. The Seine’s Tears therefore won numerous awards.
We interviewed the team behind the short film, including Yanis Belaid, who was behind the concept of this short.
Yanis Belaid x nWave
Yanis Belaid has since entered the industry, and has been working for about a year at nWave Studios on shading and surfacing. As a reminder, nWave is behind several animated feature such as The Inseparables, Chickenhare and the Thamser of Darkness, Bigfoot Family, Royal Corgi.
Yanis Belaid just announced that he has been promoted and will now direct an animated feature at nWave. Thus, we will have the opportunity to see his name on the poster of an upcoming project from the studio.
Yanis Belaid is obviously thrilled about this announcement. He explains on LinkedIn:
Directing an animated feature film and becoming a director represents a childhood dream. And today, this becomes a reality.
What this means for nWave & Piktura
This news is consistent with the ambitions shown by nWave, which had explained us their will to get closer to French schools in order to recruit new talents. It also confirms that French digital art school Piktura is getting better and better. If you’ve followed the student short films created at Piktura in the last few years, this won’t surprise you.
While we wait for the release…
While Yanis Belaid is making its directorial debut at nWave, we invite you to (re)discover our interview on The Seine’s Tears.
You will also find below our video interview on the latest film from nWave studios with director Jérémie Degruson and nWave Studios CEO Mathieu Zeller.
Finally, you can also check out our interview with Vincent “Kmeron” Philbert, Head of Production, published in May 2023. He discussed, among other things, the studio’s future ambitions.
