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<infobox> <image source="image" /> <title source="name"><default>Johane Matte</default></title> <group> <header>Biographical information</header> <label>Full name</label> <label>Born</label> <label>Died</label> <label>First credit</label> </group> <group> <header>Further information</header> <label>Link(s)</label> </group> </infobox>Johane Matte is a comic book artist and writer who has worked on a total of six Avatar: The Last Airbender comics and helped provide storyboard art for three episodes of Avatar and six episodes of The Legend of Korra.
Avatar: The Last Airbender credits
Storyboard artist
Storyboard revisionist
Comic artist
Comic writer
The Legend of Korra credits
Storyboard artist
Selected other credits
Television work
- 3Below: Tales of Arcadia (director and story supervisor)
- A Bunch of Munsch (assistant animator)
- Animal Crackers (background design supervisor)
- David Copperfield (TV movie - rendering artist)
- The Little Lulu Show (assistant animator, character designer, and character design supervisor)
- The Penguins of Madagascar (storyboard artist)
Filmography
- Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken (2023 - storyboard artist)
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012 - storyboard artist)
- Rise of the Guardians (2012 - storyboard artist)
- Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011 - storyboard artist)
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010 - storyboard artist)
Biographical information
Personal life
Johane Matte was born in 1971[1] in Amos, Quebec, Canada.[2] She attended Algonquin College from 1989 to 1991[2] and enrolled in Graphic Design during her first year, but switched to Television Animation when the college announced it was offering that course in the following year.[3]
Career
Matte learned more about television animation over the years, working in different studios with talented colleagues. She currently resides in Burbank, California.[4]
Awards
- 2013: Won an Annie Award for Rise of the Guardians (Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production)
Trivia
- Matte has various online accounts under the username "rufftoon".
- While working full-time on the original series,[5] Matte created a fan-comic under this username titled Zhao of the Water Tribe, which is updated periodically on her DeviantArt.
- Her favorite Avatar characters are General Iroh and Admiral Zhao.[4]
- Matte has published blogs critical of The Last Airbender film, especially on the portrayal of Zhao in the movie,[6] the dreadlocks hairstyle for Iroh,[7] and how firebenders require a source to bend fire.[8]
- Matte was torn in deciding whether to work on The Legend of Korra television series and the Rise of the Guardians film, but ultimately chose the latter.[9] She would later join the production crew as a storyboard artist on the series from the show's second season onward.
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