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'''Bruno Bianchi''' ({{IPA|it|ˈbruːno ˈbjaŋki|lang}}, {{IPA|fr|bʁyno bjɑ̃ki|lang}}; 6 September 1955 – 2 December 2011) was a French [[cartoonist]], [[Cartoonist|comics artist]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bianchi_bruno.htm|title=Bruno Bianchi}}</ref> and [[animation director]]. Bianchi worked extensively as an artist, director and producer on animated television productions; including ''[[Heathcliff (1984 TV series)|Heathcliff]]'', ''[[Iznogoud]]'' and most notably, ''[[Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)|Inspector Gadget]]'', which he also co-created.<ref name=cartoonbrew>{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Arrant |title=French Animator Bruno Bianchi ("Inspector Gadget") Passes Away |url=http://www.cartoonbrew.com/biz/french-animator-bruno-bianchi-inspector-gadget-passes-away.html |work=[[Cartoon Brew]] |date=2 December 2011 |access-date=2011-12-20 |archive-date=5 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205014113/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/biz/french-animator-bruno-bianchi-inspector-gadget-passes-away.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=animag>{{cite news|title=French TV Animator Bruno Bianchi Passes Away |url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/french-tv-animator-bruno-bianchi-passes-away/ |work=[[Animation Magazine]] |date=2 December 2011 |access-date=2011-12-20}}</ref>


== Career ==
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'''Bruno Bianchi''' ({{IPA-it|ˈbruno ˈbjaŋki}}, 1955 – 2 December 2011) was a French [[cartoonist]] and animation director. Bianchi worked extensively as an artist, director and producer on animated television productions; including ''[[Heathcliff (1984 TV series)|Heathcliff]]'', ''[[Iznogoud]]'' and most notably, ''[[Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)|Inspector Gadget]]'', which he also co-created.<ref name=cartoonbrew>{{cite news|first=Chris|last=Arrant|title=French Animator Bruno Bianchi ("Inspector Gadget") Passes Away |url=http://www.cartoonbrew.com/biz/french-animator-bruno-bianchi-inspector-gadget-passes-away.html |work=[[Cartoon Brew]] |publisher= |date=2 December 2011 |accessdate=2011-12-20}}</ref><ref name=animag>{{cite news|first=|last=|title=French TV Animator Bruno Bianchi Passes Away |url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/french-tv-animator-bruno-bianchi-passes-away/ |work=[[Animation Magazine]] |publisher= |date=2 December 2011 |accessdate=2011-12-20}}</ref>
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Bianchi started his career at DiC Audiovisuel (later [[DiC Entertainment]]) in 1977 at age 22 as a cel painter, then gradually assumed creative positions. His first director's credit was on the 1980 edutainment mini-series ''[[Archibald le Magi-chien|Archibald le Magichien]]'' (directly translated: ''Archibald the Magic Dog''). In 1983, Bianchi scored his first major directing job on ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'', a series he co-created with [[Andy Heyward]] and DiC's founder [[Jean Chalopin]].<ref name=lemonde/> Bianchi served as main character designer and supervising director on the show, which became one of the most iconic series produced by DiC.


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Subsequently, Bianchi worked as a director, producer and designer on numerous other [[DiC Entertainment]], [[Saban Entertainment]] and [[SIP Animation]] television animation productions from the 1980s until the mid-2000s. His credits include ''[[Heathcliff (1984 TV series)|Heathcliff]]'' (where he co-created the ''Cats and Company'' characters together with Jean Chalopin), ''[[Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors]]'', ''[[M.A.S.K. (TV series)|M.A.S.K.]]'', ''[[Rainbow Brite (1984 TV series)|Rainbow Brite]]'', ''Diplodos'' (which he co-created and co-wrote with Jean Chalopin), ''[[Iznogoud]]'', ''[[Princess Sissi (1997 TV series)|Princess Sissi]]'' and ''[[Gadget & the Gadgetinis]]'' (a spinoff of ''Inspector Gadget'').<ref name=animag/>
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Bianchi started his career at DiC Audiovisuel (later [[DiC Entertainment]]) in 1977 as a cel painter, then gradually assumed creative positions. His first director's credit was on the 1980 edutainment mini-series ''[[Archibald le Magi-chien|Archibald le Magichien]]'' (directly translated: ''Archibald the Magic Dog''). In 1983, Bianchi scored his first major directing job on ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'', a series he co-created with [[Andy Heyward]] and DiC's founder [[Jean Chalopin]].<ref name=lemonde/> Bianchi served as main character designer and supervising director on the show, which became one of the most iconic series produced by DiC.


In 2008, following the closure of SIP Animation, Bianchi founded his own studio, Ginkgo Animation.<ref name=animag/> One of Ginkgo's projects had been ''George and Me'' (French title ''Georges et Moi''),<ref name=Maroin_Eluasti /> an adaptation of a 2006 [[Soleil Productions]] comic series that had first been picked up by SIP Animation as early as December 2007,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animation-france.fr/newsletter/13/|title=des NEWS de l'anim - N°13|website=www.animation-france.fr|access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref> and had been planned to start production at SIP at the beginning of 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kidscreen.com/2008/06/01/upnext-20080601/|title=UpNext-What's developing in kids production|access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref> However, by April 2011 this venture of Ginkgo's was considered unsuccessful due to changing priorities in the French animation industry,<ref name=Maroin_Eluasti>{{cite web|url=http://maroin.canalblog.com/archives/2011/04/01/20787613.html|title=Georges et moi, le projet de série télé par ginkgo-animation - Maroin Eluasti.マロワン・エリュアスティ|date=1 April 2011|access-date=22 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023080108/http://maroin.canalblog.com/archives/2011/04/01/20787613.html|archive-date=23 October 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> according to one of the authors of the original comics.<ref>{{cite book|title=Georges et moi, Tome 1 : Bubble-gum et croquettes|first1=résultats de|last1=recherche|date=17 August 2006|publisher=Soleil Productions|id={{ASIN|2849465437|country=fr}}}}</ref>
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Subsequently, Bianchi worked as a director, producer and designer on numerous other [[DiC Entertainment]], [[Saban Entertainment]] and [[SIP Animation]] television animation productions from the 1980s until the mid-2000s. His credits include ''[[Heathcliff (1984 TV series)|Heathcliff]]'' (where he co-created the ''Cats and Company'' characters together with Jean Chalopin), ''[[Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors]]'', ''[[M.A.S.K. (TV series)|M.A.S.K.]]'', ''[[Rainbow Brite (1984 TV series)|Rainbow Brite]]'', ''[[Diplodos]]'' (which he co-created and co-wrote with Jean Chalopin), ''[[Iznogoud]]'', ''[[Princess Sissi (1997 TV series)|Princess Sissi]]'' and ''[[Gadget & the Gadgetinis]]'' (a spinoff of ''Inspector Gadget'').<ref name=animag/>


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Bianchi died on 2 December 2011 at the age of 56.<ref name=animag/> He was buried in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris on 6 December 2011.<ref name=animag/><ref name=lemonde>{{cite news |title=Disparition de Bruno Bianchi, le créateur de l'Inspecteur Gadget |url=http://lecomptoirdelabd.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/12/02/disparition-de-bruno-bianchi-le-createur-de-linspecteur-gadget/ |work=[[Le Monde]]|date=2 December 2011 |access-date=2011-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219235637/http://lecomptoirdelabd.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/12/02/disparition-de-bruno-bianchi-le-createur-de-linspecteur-gadget/ |archive-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2008, following the closure of [[Saban Entertainment|SIP Animation]], Bianchi founded his own studio, Ginkgo Animation.<ref name=animag/>


==Filmography==
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Bianchi died on 2 December 2011 at the age of 56.<ref name=animag/> He was buried in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris on 6 December 2011.<ref name=animag/><ref name=lemonde>{{cite news|first=|last=|title=Disparition de Bruno Bianchi, le créateur de l'Inspecteur Gadget |url=http://lecomptoirdelabd.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/12/02/disparition-de-bruno-bianchi-le-createur-de-linspecteur-gadget/ |work=[[Le Monde]] |publisher= |date=2 December 2011 |accessdate=2011-12-20}}</ref>


==Director (selected works)==
=== Director ===
* 1983: ''[[Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)|Inspector Gadget]]''
* 1983: ''[[Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)|Inspector Gadget]]''
* 1984: ''[[Heathcliff (1984 TV series)|Heathcliff]]''
* 1984: ''[[Heathcliff (1984 TV series)|Heathcliff]]''
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* 1985: ''[[M.A.S.K. (TV series)|M.A.S.K.]]''
* 1985: ''[[M.A.S.K. (TV series)|M.A.S.K.]]''
* 1986: ''[[Popples (1986 TV series)|Popples]]''
* 1986: ''[[Popples (1986 TV series)|Popples]]''
* 1988: ''[[Diplodos]]''
* 1988: ''[[Diplodo]]s''
* 1992: ''[[Around the World in Eighty Dreams]]''
* 1992: ''[[Around the World in Eighty Dreams]]''
* 1995: ''[[Space Strikers]]''
* 1995: ''[[Space Strikers]]''
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* 2004: ''[[The Tofus]]''
* 2004: ''[[The Tofus]]''


==Producer (selected works)==
=== Producer ===
* 1995: ''[[Iznogoud]]''
* 1995: ''[[Iznogoud]]''
* 1996: ''[[The Why Why? Family]]''
* 1996: ''[[The Why Why? Family]]''
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* 2001: ''[[Wunschpunsch]]''
* 2001: ''[[Wunschpunsch]]''
* 2002: ''[[Gadget & the Gadgetinis]]''
* 2002: ''[[Gadget & the Gadgetinis]]''
* 2003: ''[[What's with Andy?]]'' (season 2 only)
* 2004: ''[[The Tofus]]''
* 2004: ''[[The Tofus]]''
* 2004: ''[[W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)|W.I.T.C.H.]]''
* 2004: ''[[W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)|W.I.T.C.H.]]''
* 2005: ''[[A.T.O.M.|A.T.O.M. (Alpha Teens on Machines)]]''
* 2005: ''[[A.T.O.M. (TV series)|A.T.O.M. (Alpha Teens on Machines)]]''
* 2008: ''[[Combo Niños]]''
* 2008: ''[[Combo Niños]]''


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==External links==
==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0080588|name=Bruno Bianchi}}
* {{IMDb name|id=0080588|name=Bruno Bianchi}}
* [https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bianchi_bruno.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia article.]


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Revision as of 17:18, 25 August 2024

Bruno Bianchi
Born(1955-09-06)6 September 1955
Chartres, France
Died2 December 2011(2011-12-02) (aged 56)
Paris, France
Burial placePère Lachaise Cemetery
NationalityFrench
OccupationAnimator

Bruno Bianchi (Italian: [ˈbruːno ˈbjaŋki], French: [bʁyno bjɑ̃ki]; 6 September 1955 – 2 December 2011) was a French cartoonist, comics artist[1] and animation director. Bianchi worked extensively as an artist, director and producer on animated television productions; including Heathcliff, Iznogoud and most notably, Inspector Gadget, which he also co-created.[2][3]

Career

Bianchi started his career at DiC Audiovisuel (later DiC Entertainment) in 1977 at age 22 as a cel painter, then gradually assumed creative positions. His first director's credit was on the 1980 edutainment mini-series Archibald le Magichien (directly translated: Archibald the Magic Dog). In 1983, Bianchi scored his first major directing job on Inspector Gadget, a series he co-created with Andy Heyward and DiC's founder Jean Chalopin.[4] Bianchi served as main character designer and supervising director on the show, which became one of the most iconic series produced by DiC.

Subsequently, Bianchi worked as a director, producer and designer on numerous other DiC Entertainment, Saban Entertainment and SIP Animation television animation productions from the 1980s until the mid-2000s. His credits include Heathcliff (where he co-created the Cats and Company characters together with Jean Chalopin), Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, M.A.S.K., Rainbow Brite, Diplodos (which he co-created and co-wrote with Jean Chalopin), Iznogoud, Princess Sissi and Gadget & the Gadgetinis (a spinoff of Inspector Gadget).[3]

In 2008, following the closure of SIP Animation, Bianchi founded his own studio, Ginkgo Animation.[3] One of Ginkgo's projects had been George and Me (French title Georges et Moi),[5] an adaptation of a 2006 Soleil Productions comic series that had first been picked up by SIP Animation as early as December 2007,[6] and had been planned to start production at SIP at the beginning of 2009.[7] However, by April 2011 this venture of Ginkgo's was considered unsuccessful due to changing priorities in the French animation industry,[5] according to one of the authors of the original comics.[8]

Bianchi died on 2 December 2011 at the age of 56.[3] He was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris on 6 December 2011.[3][4]

Filmography

Director

Producer

References

  1. ^ "Bruno Bianchi".
  2. ^ Arrant, Chris (2 December 2011). "French Animator Bruno Bianchi ("Inspector Gadget") Passes Away". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on 5 December 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e "French TV Animator Bruno Bianchi Passes Away". Animation Magazine. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Disparition de Bruno Bianchi, le créateur de l'Inspecteur Gadget". Le Monde. 2 December 2011. Archived from the original on 19 December 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  5. ^ a b "Georges et moi, le projet de série télé par ginkgo-animation - Maroin Eluasti.マロワン・エリュアスティ". 1 April 2011. Archived from the original on 23 October 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  6. ^ "des NEWS de l'anim - N°13". www.animation-france.fr. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  7. ^ "UpNext-What's developing in kids production". Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  8. ^ recherche, résultats de (17 August 2006). Georges et moi, Tome 1 : Bubble-gum et croquettes. Soleil Productions. ASIN 2849465437.
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