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Cloutier Claude
Born in Montreal in 1957, Claude Cloutier earned a certificate in printing arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1979.
In 1986, he joined the NFB and completed his first short, The Persistent Peddler, inspired by his comic strip La légende des Jean-Guy in the humour magazine Croc. This project was followed by Overdose, produced as part of the Rights from the Heart series.
Claude has also created animated sequences for films by Jean-Jacques Leduc (Mirrors of Time, 1990), Francine Desbiens (To See the World, 1992), Jeanne Crépeau (La tranchée, 1991), Robert Awad (Le rire démasqué and Pointe-à-Callière, 1992), Nicole Giguère (Enough Is Enough, 1996), Claudette Jaiko (Taking Charge, 1996), Denise Withers (Alternate Route, 1997) and Martin Barry (The Wind, 1998).
In 1999 and 2000, he made five animated shorts for the Science, Please! series: Wheel Meets Friction, The Wonderful World of Colour, Slippery Ice!, The Force of Water and Internal Combustion Engine.
Also in 2000, he completed From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning, an ironic take on evolution and the origins of man. A testament to his astonishing technical skill, this short film was a sign of great things to come.
His film Sleeping Betty/Isabelle au bois dormant was made in 2007. This prize-winning animation was a major undertaking with 7,000 illustrations created with brushstrokes and India ink. In this parody of Sleeping Beauty, the fairy tale's characters are transported to a working-class neighbourhood in a modern city.
