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This is thanks to all of those skills that I could convince Mikros to hire me and to let me work as a director of production on such a big movie despite my young experience. I graduated IIM with managment and digital design skills besides my animation studies. At IIM, students form all of the majors have to work together, and this pluridisciplinary aspect allows students to be multitask: a true adventage when looking for a job. IIM also provided me all the tools I needed to be sucessful in the 3D animation field. Despite being a junior, Mikros trusted me because I had already proven myself with the first two clients they made me work with, DreamWorks and Paramount. “When I entered Mikros Image, the work on Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion had just begun. She entered the studio thanks to one of her IIM classmate who had worked for Mikros Image as an intern. Marion Bayard, who graduated IIM in 2013 and majored in Visual Effect, has been working for Mikros Image since 2014, first as a production manager, then as director of the production. Marion Bayard, director of production on Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potionand ex-IIM student.Īsterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion‘s animation was made by French studios Mikros Animation in Paris, who regularly works with DreamWorks and Paramount. Working on a blockbuster animated movie: the story of Marion Bayard, ex-IIM student With its Pixar-like animation, its strong script, its well-rounded characters and its humour, Asterix: the Secret of the Magic Potion had all the ingredients to make it into the top of 2018 French box-office. It came out in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Australia, New Zealand, England, Turkey, Ukrania and even in the USA where it made 393 000$ (The other Asterix animated movies didn’t even come out in the US.) It is still playing in Italy and Germany, the two countries where Asterix is the most popular outside of France. It scored a box-office of 2,2 million spectators in Spain, 1,8 million in Poland and 1,1 million in Russia. It did way better than any Asterix animated movie.Īsterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion even sold more tickets than some animated blockbusters sagas like Kung Fu Panda, Cars, Dragons, Madagascar, Ice Age or Oscar winner Spider-Man: into the Spiderverse.Īsterix is not only a French cultural phenomenon, but it is also highly appreciated in some European countries.
About 4 million French people came to see the latest adventures of the famous Gaul, and the movie scored the best box-office for a French animated movie since Arthur and the Minimoys, twelve years ago. The movie finally came out in December 2018 and played for more than 15 weeks. Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, an international successĪsterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion’s trailerĪsterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion is the highly expected sequel of Asterix: The Land of the Gods (2013).
The movie plays with anachronisms, pop-culture references and witty humour. In this movie, Getafix is looking for a successor with the help of the village’s heroes, Asterix and Obelix. The story takes place in 50 B.C during Julius Ceasar’s Conquest of Gaul and focuses on a small village that still resists the Roman Legions thanks to a magic potion that gives a super-strength, made by the village’s druid, Getafix. It is the second Asterix movie to not be adapted from one of the comics, after the Twelve Tasks of Asterix in 1976 (directed by the comics’ creators, René Goscinny and Albert Urderzo).
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Marion Bayard, promo 2013 at IIM Digital School, worked on the movie as director of production, under the direction of Alexandre Astier (who also created Kaamelott, one of France’s most successful TV series, that still has a huge impact on French pop-culture) and Louis Clichy (who previously worked for Pixar on Up and Wall-E). This year, Asterix: the Secret of the Magic Potion that just came out on DVD and Blue-Ray took French box-office by storm. 3D animation is particularly popular among French people. 3D animation Asterix, the Secret of the Magic Potion: one of France’s biggest 3D animation success France, the homeland of cinema, is also famous for its high-quality animated movies.