Blanche Malet
animation and illustration
showreel
All the extracts are from my personal animation and film projects. These were strictly solo projects.
duration: 1min45.
about me
A debuting filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist and animator established in London and Paris, with an academic background in Antique and Contemporary culture, and a masters degree in Animation.
Driven by a personal fascination with the psychology of loss, grief and resilience and featured in multiple festivals and galleries with graduate film ‘Sutures et Consolation (Stitches and Solace)’(2023). My work focuses on deciphering emotions and human relationships, especially addressing questions surrounding old age, death, cultural inheritance, grief and spirituality.
academic background
Royal College of Art, London — MA in Animation
SEPTEMBER 2022 TO AUGUST 2023
This course encouraged me to refine my criticality, expand my knowledge in Film theory, develop my skills in various animation and editing softwares, and experiment with various ways of communicating through animation.
Royal College of Art, London — Graduate Diploma in Art and Design, Communication pathway
JANUARY TO AUGUST 2022
This course enabled me to shift my focus from Humanities to Art, to explore the various disciplines within Art and Design, and to develop my animation skills.
Sorbonne Université, Paris — BA in Antique Culture and Contemporary World
SEPTEMBER 2018 TO JUNE 2021
I studied for my last year of BA at University College of London (UCL) as part of an Erasmus program.
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work experience
Freelance, London — Graphic designer and illustrator
JANUARY 2024
Designing logos, as well as a booklet for a private guide, designed to accompany a group of children on a visit to the Wallace Collection.
Rose Bakery, Paris — Waitress
OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2021
Working part time as a runner, server and cashier for the restaurant Rose Bakery, situated in the luxury mall ‘Le Bon Marché’ in Paris.
I/O Gazette, Avignon — Intern in press relations and social media management
JULY 2019
Posting about new articles of the journal on social media, as well as sending press reviews to theatres and theatre companies, and sending emails to book tickets for journalists during Avignon’s theatre festival (France).
National Opera of Paris, Paris — Civil servant
NOVEMBER 2017 TO JUNE 2018
My roles were to guide the classes of the program ‘Ten Months of School and Opera’ around the Opera house, to be an assistant stage manager for the classes’ show, as well as to capture photos and videos to document activities. I also participated in the conception of a seminar on the theme of cultural and artistic education.
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research and teaching experience
Institute of Art, Design+Technology Dún Laoghaire, Dublin — Visiting tutor
JANUARY 2024
I conducted a short lecture series for Animation undergraduate and graduate students based on my own research and creative practice, titled ‘How to address a personal experience of grief and trauma in an animated film’.
Ark Swift Academy, London - Creative workshop lead
FEBRUARY 2023
I had the opportunity to create and conduct a workshop for school children of the Ark Swift Academy in White City. The aim was to introduce them to Communication practices. Myself and other students from the Royal College of Art organised several creative activities spread across three hours. This project was under the supervision of the tutor and artist Jessie Brennan.
Royal College of Art, London - Research project on perceptions of OCD
JANUARY 2023
This project was made in collaboration with three other students from the Royal College of Art, on the theme ‘caring society’. We created a stop-motion video to raise awareness on OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). This project involved extensive research, contacting charities, working with voluntary anonymous participants.
skills
Softwares
Adobe Premiere Pro proficient
Adobe Photoshop basic notions
Adobe AfterEffects beginner
Adobe Illustrator beginner
DragonFrame proficient
Microsoft Office Suite proficient
Professional skills
Able to multitask and prioritise tasks effectively
Critical thinker and highly adaptable to new ideas
Able to organise and convey information clearly and consciously
Languages
English fluent
French native speaker
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animation
Stop-motion animation produced during my MA in Animation at the RCA (2023)
Stop-motion animation produced during my Graduate Diploma in Arts and Design at the RCA (2022).
stop-motion animation
Sutures et Consolation
(Stitches and Solace)
This project is an autoethnographic animated documentary addressing my experience of losing my father in 2018. Sharing with the audience my thoughts and emotions of the few days surrounding the funeral, I intend to shed some light of the taboo subject that is grief. Through charcoal drawings and red thread stitches, I attempt to repair myself and build resilience. This film was my graduation project for my MA at the RCA.
Festivals
Animator Festival (Poznàn, Poland; June 2024)
BFI Future Film Festival (London and Bristol, UK; February 2024)
Prague International Film Awards (Prague, Czech Republic; October 2023)
Cinematherapy Festival (Alexandropouli, Greece; September 2023)
Galleries
Willesden Gallery, ‘Exploring grief and loss through art’ (Brent, UK; January 17-February 23 2024)
Press
BFI Future Film Festival: Blanche Malet, Stitches and Solace - The New Current (February 2024)
https://www.thenewcurrent.co.uk/stitches-and-solace
This film is private as it is still running in festivals.
Please email me if you would like to watch it.
You can find my email in contact, in the menu.
duration: 5 min
year of production: 2023
animation: Blanche Malet
sound design: Blanche Malet and Carl Goetgheluck
sound mixing: Carl Goetgheluck
softwares: DragonFrame, Adobe Premiere Pro
stop-motion animation
petite vieille
(little old lady)
With this project, my aim was to address elders’ loneliness, especially those suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. I attempted to put myself in the shoes of my grandmother, a seventy year old Breton lady, to imagine what her memories could look or sound like.
These memories pop up throughout the film, replaying significant events of her life just like how those living with Alzheimer’s disease tend to relive events stored solely in their long- term memory when their mid- and short-term memory function deteriorates.
duration: 3 min 11s
year of production: 2022
animation and sound design: Blanche Malet
softwares: Stop-Motion app, Adobe Premiere Pro
stop-motion animation
OCD: debunking misconceptions together
This project was realized with three students from other departments at the RCA (Architecture, Product Design and Experience Design), in the framework of the collaborative project ‘Across RCA’. Our films is a response to one of the four themes: ‘caring society’.
Our idea was to give visibility to what OCD is, to prevent the shame that comes with mislabelling and misunderstanding the condition. Indeed, OCD is known by the mainstream as a personality trait, describing a person who is overly organized and fussy about cleanliness, rather than a debilitating mental health condition that can severely affect the sufferer’s daily life and well being. We chose to make an animated film as it seemed to be a medium of choice to address a sensitive matter whilst protecting the identity of the OCD sufferers.
Our film was published on the website of the charity ‘Orchard OCD’ that we had contacted to find participants for the interviews.
duration: 3 min 09s
year of production: 2023
animation and puppet design: Blanche Malet
clothes design: Fengxu Chen
set design: Su Demir
video and sound editing: Sunny Duangvichai
softwares: DragonFrame, Adobe PremierePro
commission, digital 2D stop-frame animation
COPD Project: Pleural
With this project, my aim was to address elders’ loneliness, especially those suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. I attempted to put myself in the shoes of my grandmother, a seventy year old Breton lady, to imagine what her memories could look or sound like. These memories pop up throughout the film, replaying significant events of her life just like how those living with Alzheimer’s disease tend to relive events stored solely in their long- term memory when their mid- and short-term memory function deteriorates.
year of production: 2022
animation: Blanche Malet
Pleural team leaders: Daniel Hale, Yihan Dong, Fergus Laidlaw,William Elliot
softwares: ProCreate, LumaFusion
stop-motion test
let me cry
This is a short test produced with soft pastels on paper. My idea was to picture an encounter between two people who are crying simultaneously. Each of them notice that the other one is crying and is instantly forced to feel empathy for the other person.
year of production: 2022
animation: Blanche Malet
softwares: DragonFrame, Adobe PremierePro
mixed-media animation
Upcoming project
Tests for an upcoming short animation project about immigration, cultural heritage and family. I mixed media for the feet on tiles, using pastels for the background and 2D digital animation for the feet. The two other tests have been made on paper using Chinese ink.
year of production: 2024
animation: Blanche Malet
softwares: ProCreate, LumaFusion
video montages
archive video montage
It comes with a bang
This short compilation of archive extract was created before I started studying at the Royal College. It was inspired by an online encounter of both the song ‘In This Shirt’ by the Irrepressibles and an extract from the film Silk Stockings, featuring one of my favourite dancer Cyd Charisse, directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
This project was a moving image excercise to some degree, an attempt to use the technique of montage to build a loose but timeless narrative which creates an immediate emotional reaction from the viewer.
duration: 3 min
video extracts: Archive.org
year of production: 2020
software: AdobePremierePro
duration: 2 min 07
video extracts: Archive.org and my own
year of production: 2021
software: AdobePremierePro
archive video montage
Au fond de la piscine
(At the bottom of the swimming pool)
This short follows the principle of the previous compilation of archive video extracts. It was inspired by the song ‘Pull Marine’ by Isabelles Adjani. It contains video extracts from Archive.org as well as my own videos.
archive video montage
Moon dust
This short experiment was an exercise given by on of my MA tutors at the RCA. The principle was to take extracts from videos on Archive.org and play with them to create a sort of narrative.
My film was driven by an analogy between the mystery that lies behind the universe, as an unknown body driven by unknown rules, and the mystery behind the female body, and especially the reproductive system and menstrual cycle, which mysteries are only starting to be fully uncovered.
duration: 1 min38
video extracts: Archive.org
year of production: 2023
software: AdobePremierePro
illustration and graphic design
booklet
Epopée du dedans
(Indoor saga)
This booklet was made during lockdown, reflecting poetcially on the strange period that it was. It is made of cut-outs, linocut prints on several types of paper and Chinese ink drawings. I created the binding, that represents houses next each other.
The poem at the end of the booklet translates as follows:
And suddenly everything is differently,
the unbearable comfort of the couch,
the solar warmth behind the windows.
In my well-established silver tower,
the outside invites itself inside. Excitement
for grocery shopping, race for excitement. Distance and close up. Everything tastes differently.
Sorrow house.
Blanche Malet
duration: 1 min25
material: linocut prints on paper, thread, pen on paper
year of production: 2020
linocut print postcard
Custom wedding invitation
Custom-made wedding invitation showing the two main sites of the event and a rough map between the two buildings.
I first designed a watercolour version, and then decided to try to linocut print it. The latter version was favoured by the couple.
First design attempt using
watercolour (2021)
Final design, ink linocut print (2021)
Linocut (2021)
logo and presentation slides
Custom logo and slides for a small meditation business
Custom-made logo and presentation slides according to the client needs and ideas.
I created them using Procreate and InDesign.
Logo
Presentation slide sample
paintings
Watercolours
I tried to capture mundane scenes with watercolour, either drawing directly the scene or painting it from photographs.
Hampstead Heath, London (2024)
Uros, Lake Titicaca, Peru (2024)
Peckham, London (2024)
Morlaix, France (2020)
Rye Lane Market, Peckham, London (2024)
My mother, asleep and reading (2021)
Girl walking at night
Tattoo project for a friend
Life drawing
Mirror houses
drawings using Procreate
Digital illustrations
Illustrations drawn on Procreate on Ipad. I am currently animating the ‘Mirror houses’.
Imagination-based sketches
Observation drawing on the beach
Museum sketches
Life drawing
Observation drawing in the Alps
pencil and pen drawings on paper
Sketches
Observation drawing in museums, life drawing and imagination-based sketches.
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