Mélody Cisinski

Mélody Cisinski was a storyboard artist on Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.

History
Mélody studied at Gobelins, graduating with a 5 years Bachelor degree. She has a three-year university degree in the History of Art.

Currently, she is a teacher of art direction, character design, and storytelling at Gobelins. She is the art director for a Nickelodeon spinoff show of TNMT. She is also working on a full-length animated movie of her own creation called "Revolution," with help on the screenplay from Alexandre Emeline and Thomas Astruc.

Previously, she worked on Miraculous from January to November 2014. She created other character designs for other ZAGtoon projects. She has also designed characters for a Wakfu videogame with Ankama Games.

Won

 * "Best Animated Film (International) Award" au festival Whistling Woods International Student Film (Inde) 2010
 * "Mention Spéciale Meilleure Animation", Festival "Sur les Pas de Mon Oncle" 2010, France
 * "Best Animated Short Film", Xiamen Animation Film Festival 2010, Chine
 * "Best Short Film Documentary Award", Encounters 2010, 16th International Film Festival, Royaume-Uni

Nominated

 * Interntional Short Film Festival Leuven, 2009, Belgique
 * Festival Court Devant 2009, Paris
 * Festival Animex 2009
 * 4th China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival, 2009
 * Festival Anima 2010, festival du film d'animation de Bruxelles
 * Future Film Festival 2010, Bologne, Italie
 * FICCI Best Animated Frames (BAF) Awards 2010, Inde
 * Imagina Awards 2010, "Best Animated Film", Monaco
 * Pune International Film Festival 2010, Inde
 * Atube Festival 2010, The global animation film festival, "The Short Film Contest", Italie
 * Frameflixx 2010, A Festival of Animation, Visual Effects and Short Films, Inde
 * Gulf Film Festival 2010, Dubaï
 * Festival International du film de l'Etudiant 2010, Casablanca
 * Anima Mundi 2010, International Animation Festival of Brazil, Brésil
 * China (Changzhou) International Animation and Art Festival (CICDAF 2010), Chine
 * International College Peace Film Festival (ICPFF 2009), Corée
 * Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market (SSF 2010), Japon
 * Klik ! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2010, Pays-Bas
 * PISAF 2010, Corée du Sud
 * Encounters 2010, 16th International Film Festival, Royaume-Uni
 * Xiamen International Animation Festival 2010, Chine
 * International Festival of Animation Arts "Multivision" 2011, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie

Trivia

 * Mélody loves history, saying it is the "best way to understand who we are."
 * Mélody's favorite movies include The Graduate, Pusher II, Silence of the Lambs, Ikiru, Seven Samuraï, Yojimbo, Amadeus, A.I. Artificial Intelligence,  Kaguya Princess, Die Hard, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Porco Rosso, Grave of the Fireflies, Rush, Incredibles, There Will be Blood, Running Out of Time, A Better Tomorrow, and The Mission.
 * Her favorite television shows include Rome, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Doctor Who (the David Tennant run), Homeland, Sherlock, The IT Crowd, Malcom in the Middle, and Sentai Tokusatsu weird TV show.
 * Currently, she is dating Thomas Astruc.