ABSTRACT
Piet De Rycker (born in 1957 in Antwerp) is a Belgian animator and animation director who worked all over Europe, animating in Ireland for Don Bluth (Rock-A-Doodle, 1991), directing in Germany as well as in Great Britain. His most famous animated feature films in Europe were The Little Polar Bear (2001) and Laura's Star (2004). He came from 2D animation but directed 3D as well. Creating moments one can relate to as if you were there, together with the other characters, waiting to say your own lines. Real art is a fine chemistry wherein all elements, such as style, color sets, brushstrokes, the blackness of shadows, the fluency of successive troughs and on and on, are combined in the right amount of values creating one specific visual language that could only be this one to tell this particular story. Belgium is a center of comic books, a culture very open-minded toward visuals, from the French to the American to the Manga. All influences from children comic strips to graphic novels are familiar to our cultural background.
