Biography

René Jodoin was born on December 30, 1920 in Hull, Québec, Canada. René was a producer and director, known for Notes on a Triangle (1966), A Matter of Form (1984) and Hunger (1974). René died on January 22, 2015 in Canada.

He became part of the NFB after graduating in 1943 from the Montreal school of Fine Arts (École des Beaux-Arts). He became Norman McLaren's collaborator. He used computer animation early ('Hunger' by Peter Foldes) and was a proponent of abstract geometric animation ('Rectangle et rectangles').

He became head, in 1966, of the animation studio of the French section of the NFB and produced many important films. In 1985, he left the NFB and continued to be an artist. He was awarded by the Québec government the Albert-Tessier prize in 2001.