Audel LaRoque | |
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Born: | Alexandre la Roque May 28, 1956 (age 63) |
Other names: | Alexandre la Roque |
Notable work: | Liche's Wish Ghost Vision Paint World Computeropolis franchise Quest |
Occupation: | Director, screenwriter, animator, producer, voice actor |
Alexandre la Roque (born May 28, 1956), known by his pseudonym Audel LaRoque, is a French-American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor at Universal Animation. He was a member of the creative team at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he started in the early 1980s as a supervising animator. He is best known for directing the Computeropolis franchise as well as Liche's Wish (1990), Ghost Vision (1995), Paint World (1999), and Quest (2012).
Early life[]
LaRoque was born on May 28, 1956 to a Jewish family in France, and raised in Brooklyn, New York City.
Career[]
In early 1980s, he started his career as an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios where he worked on several projects at the studio including The Fox and the Hound (1981), The Black Cauldron (1985), The Great Mouse Detective (1986), and Oliver & Company (1988).
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Personal life[]
LaRoque is married to Joan Green and they have two children: Brett and May. Brett was the voice of young Ridder in Quest.
Filmography[]
Feature film[]
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Animator | Voice actor | Role |
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1981 | The Fox and the Hound | Yes | Uncredited | ||||
1982 | The Plague Dogs | Yes | |||||
1985 | The Black Cauldron | Yes | |||||
1986 | The Great Mouse Detective | Yes | |||||
1988 | Oliver & Company | Yes | |||||
1990 | Liche's Wish | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
1992 | East of the Sun and West of the Moon | Yes | |||||
1993 | The Three Princes and Their Beasts | Yes | Additional story artist | ||||
1995 | Ghost Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
1997 | Ama and the Mysterious Crystal | Yes | Storyboard artist | ||||
1999 | Paint World | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Chuck, additional voices | |
2000 | Mistress Masham's Repose | Yes | Head of story | ||||
2004 | Computeropolis | Yes | Yes | Media Player Mike (uncredited), additional voices | |||
2005 | The Bullet Is Helping Me! | Yes | Additional voices | ||||
2006 | Me & Mobo | Yes | Executive producer | ||||
2007 | Computeropolis 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Spamming Player | ||
2008 | Swapped | Yes | Executive producer | ||||
2009 | Woo La La | Yes | |||||
2010 | Computeropolis 3 | Yes | Yes | Executive producer, additional voices | |||
2011 | Nepola's Odyssey | Yes | Executive producer | ||||
2012 | Quest | Yes | Yes | Solider | |||
2014 | Nepola's Odyssey II | Yes | Executive producer | ||||
2015 | Paradoria | Yes | |||||
2017 | Imagimals | Yes | Yes | Executive producer, additional voices | |||
Lix | Yes | Executive producer | |||||
2018 | Computeropolis: The Deep Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Carniolus, Surprise Egg #1 | ||
2019 | Paradoria 2 | Yes | Executive producer | ||||
2022 | Computeropolis: Webcation | Yes | Yes | ||||
Mechagirl | Yes | Yes |
Short films[]
Coming soon!
Unmade projects[]
- The Snow Queen, a project that would have written and directed by LaRoque. It was originally set to be released on December 20, 2006, but was delayed to 2007. In March 2006, Universal then moved the film to 2008, and announcing Audel LaRoque as the director of Computeropolis 2, which he was directing concurrently with Big Hero 6. However, in March 2007, the project was abandoned by Universal due to script problems and LaRoque was no longer working on the project, and would instead work on an idea that would later become Quest. A few characters and elements from this film were reincarnated a decade later into Walt Disney Animation Studios' Frozen (2013) and Universal Animation Studios' Paradoria (2015), respectively.
Television[]
Year | Title | Notes |
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1991–2002 | Gabriel Garza | Writer animator storyboard artist |
1991 | A Gabriel Garza Christmas | Producer animator storyboard artist |
1996–2002 | Hatty | Animator producer storyboard artist executive consultant Animation producer |
2001–2003 | Paint World | Co-creator |
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Other[]
Year | Title | Notes |
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2006 | Curious George | Special thanks (uncredited) |
2012 | ParaNorman | |
2013 | Luna & Zak | Production manager, special thanks |
2016 | The Secret Life of Pets | Special thanks (uncredited) |
Critical reception[]
Critical response to films LaRoque has directed:
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic |
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Liche's Wish | 32% | N/A |
Ghost Vision | 53% | 56 |
Paint World | 84% | 69 |
Computeropolis | 90% | 76 |
Computeropolis 2 | 78% | 62 |
Quest | 77% | 70 |
Computeropolis: The Deep Web | 69% | 59 |
Accolades[]
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