Arnaud Boutin, Clément Dozier and Camille Dauteuille are AB/CD/CD.

Just the facts: Who – Arnaud Boutin (30), Camille Dauteuille (27) and Clément Dozier (30); Hometown – Paris, France; Education – AB: Les Gobelins, Paris, graphic design and multimedia; CD: Les Gobelins, multimedia; CD: Supinfocom, multimedia. Employ – signed in late 2009 to Paranoid for the US and Rokkit for Europe, except in France where they signed to Frenzy.

Previous experience: The three worked as designers and in post-production companies across Paris, often crossing paths and working in pairs before finally coming together as a trio in 2009 to create Lily Allen’s reality-altering tirade “Fuck You”. Boutin worked as a children’s book illustrator and graphic designer for Kuntzel+Deygas. Dozier also worked at the latter, along with animation at Subakt and post companies, including Wizz. Dauteuille also worked at Wizz as a graphic designer and CG artist, as well as at Partizan, Gedeon and Evostruct.

Best work: Technically brilliant, there’s an infectious sense of fun in everything the trio do, be it the Lily Allen video or the choreographed clothing romp “Fitting Dance” for Daffy’s. Effortless as it looks, the latter, which seamlessly mixes a live event with on-screen action, was taxing. “We had some unusual constraints: a screen, dancers and clothes. And even more so it was our first big project in the US. Every aspect of the project had to work in conjunction with the other. The choreography depended upon the clothing. The clothing depended on how fast the dancers could move. The movement depended on the size of the set and the speed of the camera. It was very mathematical.” 

The best thing about working as a collective: “Being surprised by what the project becomes once every one of us gives his point of view. We are doing things as a collective that we wouldn’t be able to do or even think about if we were all working individually. Once we start thinking about it, we all have a point of view on a project. We never know what the outcome will be as the ideas gather.” EW

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