Born and living in Paris, Nicolas Monterrat is a creator of GIFs at the crossroads of humour, rhythm, aesthetics and poetry. Passionate about animation since always, this image format allows him to tinker at home with quirky little stories, to explore surreal and iconoclastic worlds. According to him, the interest of the GIF lies in the fact that it allows to approach the perfect loop, to tell a story in a few seconds. Everything is in the rhythm and quality of the sequences.
Nicolas will draw his imagination from scientific or popular images of another time. He likes their formal side, a bit rigid, applied, sometimes too serious. This makes him want to distract them from their original purpose, to bring them a little fantasy, humour or titillate the imagination. He is also inspired a lot by the work of Terry Gilliam in the Monty Python for example, that of Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit, Hombre_McSteez and his so creative animations, and in a completely different genre, the amazing work of Georges Rousse or Felice Varini and the brilliant Philippe Halsman. These artists propose staggered, parallel, funny and sometimes disturbing worlds, an atmosphere that is clearly found in Nicolas' work.
Soul 21
L'échelle
Les enfants
Pick Me !
Smiley Controlled Display
The Void
HOUSTON ?..
First Class Office
The Show Must Go On
Break in the wall
Souvenir d'un temps révolu
Rivière à vendre
Untitled V
JUMPING HATS
HOMME LIBRE... 2
In my living room
The magic touch
City lights
What a view
Bus stop
Stay In Shape
L'homme électrique
The Wave Machine
Stay Put
HOMME LIBRE...
Par la fenêtre
Let’s Try Something Different
Enhancing Dutch portrait Computer
Behind my hands
Souvenir
Under Pressure
What the Heck?
Le métronome
Travel in Style
Clean the world
Hide This, Please
Underground
Night Flights II
Encounter
Ask A Boss
Instant Hairdo
The Tatoo
What lies beneath
Out of the Box
Night Flights I
ON THE ROCK
NASA AT HIS BEST
Moon Area
Le Mobile
GARDIEN DE LA GALAXIE