• Frédéric Vicaire: 30 years of practice in creative direction
  • artlequin: creative direction of The Roaming, a work by Mathieu Pradat selected for the Cannes Film Festival Immersive Competition 2024, with Normal Studio
  • The Little Prince, César 2016 for Best Animated Film and BAFTA Children’s Award 2017, as set designer and senior concept artist
  • Member of the Société des musées du Québec and XN Québec, listed by Effet Québec
Frédéric Vicaire, founder and creative director of artlequin in Montreal
Frédéric Vicaire, senior creative director

A direction before the tools

Everything starts with an intent: what the project must make people feel, for whom, and why. Creative direction comes next, and it is what chooses the tools, never the other way around: photography, 3D, animation, compositing, code or generative AI, depending on what the production requires. The result is judged on one thing only: does it do what it was asked to do.

Thirty years of practice give a simple advantage: we quickly recognize what will work, and we do not charge for detours. A senior creative director on your project, from the first call to delivery, with no intermediary.

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