Guillaume Aretos
6 juin 2005
Guillaume Aretos, Production Designer - PDI/Dreamworks
La mèche rebelle, l'oeil malicieux, Guillaume Aretos est directeur artistique chez Dreamworks. Sa passion, il a choisi de l'exercer en Californie, là il peut donner libre cours à sa créativité sur des projets aussi divers que Antz, Galaxy Quest ou Deap Blue Sea. Sur Shrek notre artiste a exercé sa french touch sur l'ensemble de la création de l'univers féérique du cartoon. Si Shrek a un look si singulier, on le lui doit certainement en partie.
GUILLAUME ARETOS (Production Designer) served as an art director on "Shrek," for which he won an Annie Award for Outstanding Production Design. He also worked on PDI/DreamWorks' first computer-animated feature film, "Antz." In addition, Aretos has designed numerous mythical beasts for animatronix developer Edge Innovation that can be seen in such projects as "Deep Blue Sea" and "Dinotopia."
Aretos' career in entertainment spans three decades, and includes both writing and acting for television. In the late 1980s in his native France, Aretos was well known for his work as an actor on the television show "L'homme à Tout Faire," the French version of "Three's Company."
Apart from his film and television work, Aretos' paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited in France, at galleries including the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Musée d'Art Moderne Albert Chanot. In addition, his illustrated books, including Le Livre Secret des Fournis (The Secret Lives of Ants), have been published in France and Korea. He has also contributed to the magazines Ciel et Espace, Science et Nature and Metal Hurlan (Heavy Metal).