Ian Parovel

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Ian Parovel
Born
Ian Parovel

(1983-01-15) January 15, 1983 (age 41)
NationalityFlag of France.svg  France
Occupation(s)Art director, film director, game designer, screenwriter
Known forThe Podcats
GOSU
Colt Express
300Km/s
Deus
Minivilles

Ian Parovel (born 1983 in France), is a French art director, film director, game designer, screenwriter, and designer living in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

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He is best known as the creator and screenwriter of the 3D animated television series The Podcats [1] and the Legends Of Luma game collection. [2]

It was during the ceremony of the As d'Or/Game of the Year 2015 that he was noticed by the boardgame industry, being congratulated several times by the various laureates during the show. [3]

Biography

It was during his childhood that his grandfather and his uncle introduced him to video editing, by training him to video tools and shooting super 8 films. Later, in 1995, discovering the Amiga demoscene that he will be particularly interested in the animation of synthesis, while being initiated to Lightwave. [4]

After an education in business school, Ian Parovel pursued literary studies in audiovisual section at the Lycom (French movie school). He will then give up in the last year, in favor of a booming activity: Video Jockeying. Fascinated by television programs dealing with virtual images such as Micro Kid's Multimedia featuring virtual characters, the Imagina festival and Pixar's first short films, he decided to devote himself entirely to the creation of computer-generated images and animations. [5]

It was also during these years that he learned by himself most of the graphic software suites, as well as coding demos.

In 2007 he was spotted by Eric Chevalier, director of the show Micro Kid's, who invited him to join the animation studio Okidoki to create a new animated series, The Podcats, on which he worked for nearly 5 years. [6]

Since the success of the series, [7] his skills are demanded by video game studios (Ubisoft) and board games (Ludonaute, Asmodee) in addition to his activity as art director for other studios (Disney Television, EuropaCorp).

In 2017 he created with Ludonautes a new series of board games in an all-new episodic and linear format called serial games: The Legends Of Luma. [8]

In 2020 he joins Board Game Arena [9] for which he already worked since 2016, mostly on the overall design and graphic chart. [10] He will then take care of the UX, reaching 5 Millions members in December 2020. [11]

Author of games and books, he also gives lectures about the links between design, interfaces and [12] gameplay. [13]

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