Jean Chalopin (a.k.a. Jean Cheville) Jean has been a writer, animator and artist visionary, who found in film making a natural outlet to his visions and expression. From a very young age he learned every step, creatively and technically, of the television and film creative process. Jean was the first person worldwide to produce a computer generated animated segment (1981); the first to produce a true 3-D TV series (1987), and the first to use motion-capture, in cooperation with artist Mike McNeilly, to create live pictures (since 1997). Jean Chalopin was knighted “Chevaliers Des Arts et des Lettres” (Knight of Arts and Literature) by the French Government in 1992. He is a member of the ‘Société des AuteursCompositeursDramatiques’ (Writer Guild of France) since 1969, and of ‘Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs, Editeurs de Musique’ (Music Guild of France) since 1978. Mike McNeilly Mike McNeilly is an artist, sculptor, and creator of thought provoking art. Mr. McNeilly uses his art to support many charitable causes, and highlights our first amendment right to Free Speech that is so crucial to artists of all mediums today. Mr. McNeilly’s large format artwork includes large scale tall sculptures, large paintings and wall murals, and many life size objects of pop culture. Mike McNeilly’s art has covered the Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, the base of the Statue of Liberty and the Lincoln Memorial. The beauty and imagination of his work is currently being filmed as a documentary showcasing the history of the work created by this innovative artist. In addition to his art, Mr. McNeilly is developing several 3-D animated characters from his sculptures that will be brought to life on television and/or cinematic form. Mike McNeilly is also the active co-creator and co-founder of artlived art, a new form of live painting.
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