Nicolas Ménard
@nicolasmenard.com
Animation, art & design
Québécois based in London, UK
Co-founder of Eastend Western
RCA MA 2014
eastendwestern.com
nicolasmenard.com
Québécois based in London, UK
Co-founder of Eastend Western
RCA MA 2014
eastendwestern.com
nicolasmenard.com
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Nicolas Ménard
@nicolasmenard.com
· Mar 6
TRIPLE BILL (2024)
This anthology is a demo in replacement animation; this means each frame of motion is a unique 3D printed puppet. Three genres are explored to survey the atmospheric…
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TRIPLE BILL is online! Watch 5 minutes of NEW experimental stop-motion animation here: vimeo.com/1047520946
Travail alimentaire
September 9, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Travail alimentaire
Dreaming of new pictorial spaces 💭
March 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Dreaming of new pictorial spaces 💭
We're on Colossal today: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/isam...
An Animated Look at Noguchi's Experimental Playgrounds That Were Never Built
"I think of playgrounds as a primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious and evocative; thus educational," Isamu Noguchi said.
www.thisiscolossal.com
March 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
We're on Colossal today: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/isam...
Our hand-painted films for the Noguchi Museum are now live on YouTube! Discover how kids might have enjoyed Noguchi’s unrealized playground designs for NYC. Bon cinéma... youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Noguchi's New York — Animated Playgrounds (2026) - YouTube
Eastend Western presents five animated films entirely hand painted over 1,800 celluloids, inspired by Isamu Noguchi's unrealized playground proposals for the...
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March 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Our hand-painted films for the Noguchi Museum are now live on YouTube! Discover how kids might have enjoyed Noguchi’s unrealized playground designs for NYC. Bon cinéma... youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Extract from our animations for the Noguchi Museum
Extract from our animations for the Noguchi Museum
March 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Extract from our animations for the Noguchi Museum
Extract from our animations for the Noguchi Museum
It's raining on Noguchi's Contoured Playground. A meditative loop painted on celluloid, and a homage to Hockney taken from our films for the Noguchi Museum. On display until September.
February 25, 2026 at 3:11 PM
It's raining on Noguchi's Contoured Playground. A meditative loop painted on celluloid, and a homage to Hockney taken from our films for the Noguchi Museum. On display until September.
Swimmer clock design
February 25, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Swimmer clock design
Smoking in live action is the equivalent of boil in animation
February 21, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Smoking in live action is the equivalent of boil in animation
I'll post more about this project over the coming days/weeks..!
February 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I'll post more about this project over the coming days/weeks..!
It was truly a dream project. Co-directed with @jackcunningham.bsky.social, we wanted to echo the material richness of Noguchi’s models. To do so, we turned towards traditional animation techniques and painted over 1,800 celluloids.
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
It was truly a dream project. Co-directed with @jackcunningham.bsky.social, we wanted to echo the material richness of Noguchi’s models. To do so, we turned towards traditional animation techniques and painted over 1,800 celluloids.
Noguchi's playground designs exist mainly as beautifully cryptic maquettes. Viewers might wonder how kids would have played within such structures. Our animated films explore the question in narrative and abstract ways.
February 10, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Noguchi's playground designs exist mainly as beautifully cryptic maquettes. Viewers might wonder how kids would have played within such structures. Our animated films explore the question in narrative and abstract ways.
Last week, we launched five animations at the Noguchi Museum. If you're in NYC, their new exhibition is on until September and explores Noguchi's relationship with the city, and his rejected playground designs.
February 10, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Last week, we launched five animations at the Noguchi Museum. If you're in NYC, their new exhibition is on until September and explores Noguchi's relationship with the city, and his rejected playground designs.
Still from my film "Colorimetry in Motion" (2013)
February 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Still from my film "Colorimetry in Motion" (2013)
Looping film for Loro Piana from 2024
January 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Looping film for Loro Piana from 2024
A busy start to 2026... animations for the Noguchi Museum incoming 🚨 artdaily.com/news/189662/...
New exhibition explores Isamu Noguchi's lifelong relationship with New York City
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum announced Noguchi’s New York, on view from February 4–July 5, 2026. Organized on the occasion
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January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
A busy start to 2026... animations for the Noguchi Museum incoming 🚨 artdaily.com/news/189662/...
This year, @jackcunningham.bsky.social & myself launched our film, art and design studio Eastend Western and we’ve been so busy since we haven’t had time to share any new work. If you’re in Canada and spot these Wealthsimple ads, we handmade them over the summer in our compact but mighty workshop.
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This year, @jackcunningham.bsky.social & myself launched our film, art and design studio Eastend Western and we’ve been so busy since we haven’t had time to share any new work. If you’re in Canada and spot these Wealthsimple ads, we handmade them over the summer in our compact but mighty workshop.
Some of my old drawings lost to time, collected and sent back to me by Season Cheng.
December 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of my old drawings lost to time, collected and sent back to me by Season Cheng.
Nostalgia for our old studio space
December 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Nostalgia for our old studio space
The Battle of San Romano by Georges Schwizgebel vimeo.com/656704401
The Battle of San Romano
A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th Century; The Battle of San…
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December 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The Battle of San Romano by Georges Schwizgebel vimeo.com/656704401
Still can’t believe 16:9 is a nostalgic ratio
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Still can’t believe 16:9 is a nostalgic ratio
You can enjoy Kawamoto’s beautiful puppet films right here: archive.org/details/kiha...
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
You can enjoy Kawamoto’s beautiful puppet films right here: archive.org/details/kiha...
The Rest is History repeating that Disney invented animation makes me doubt the accuracy of everything they talk about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPa...
We Went to Disneyland with Bob Iger
YouTube video by The Rest Is History
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November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The Rest is History repeating that Disney invented animation makes me doubt the accuracy of everything they talk about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPa...