Michel Ancel (French pronunciation:[miʃɛlɑ̃sɛl]; born 29 March 1972) is a retired Monégasque-French video game designer. He is best known for creating the Rayman franchise and was the lead designer or director for several of the games, including Rayman Origins and its sequel Rayman Legends. He is also known for the critically acclaimed (if poorly selling) video game Beyond Good & Evil, as well as for King Kong, based on Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong, which sold well and was critically acclaimed. In 2017, he began work on Beyond Good and Evil 2, although he left the project in 2020.
MichelAncel (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ɑ̃sɛl]; born 29 March 1972) is a retired Monégasque-French video game designer. He is best known for creating...
or other facets to improve their spacecraft. Its original director, MichelAncel, said that they do anticipate that there will be a narrative element...
a franchise of platform video games, created by video game designer MichelAncel for Ubisoft. Since the release of the original Rayman game in 1995, the...
Frédéric Houde as technical director. Ubisoft Montpellier was founded by MichelAncel and Frédéric Houde, two French video game designers. Houde, after obtaining...
into more characters with various traits and quirks. Rayman creator MichelAncel described the bunnies as "vicious, but at the same time [...] totally...
game have also expressed their distaste for the delay, while creator MichelAncel was photographed with protesters campaigning for the release of the game...
container to create an antidote. Tonic Trouble was conceptualized by MichelAncel and developed by a team of around 120 people, starting pre-production...
company had about 6 developers working from the chateau. These included MichelAncel, a teenager at the time noted for his animation skills, and Serge Hascoët...
the decision to restart development. On October 2017, series' creator MichelAncel posted on Instagram that he wants the game to happen. Reception Rayman...
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke in the music video for the song “Knives Out,” directed by Michel Gondry. She won the 2002 Prix Romy Schneider, an award given annually to...
showcased courses they had created, such as MichelAncel, Koji Igarashi, Tim Rogers, and Derek Yu. Ancel's course is included in the base game as an Event...
Barbara, or Globox), and unlock different costumes to customize them. MichelAncel said he "felt the right opportunity to immerse the player in a macro-photographic...
around US$562 million worldwide. He also collaborated with game designer MichelAncel from Ubisoft to make a video game adaptation of the film, which released...
the industry a tax subsidy and inducting two French game designers (MichelAncel, Frédérick Raynal) and one Japanese game designer (Shigeru Miyamoto)...
September 16, 2020. Phillips, Tom (September 18, 2020). "Rayman creator MichelAncel quits video games to work on wildlife sanctuary". Eurogamer. Retrieved...
May 1, 2022. "Introducing WiLD, a PS4 exclusive from Rayman creator MichelAncel". PlayStation.Blog. August 12, 2014. Archived from the original on May...
Ubisoft announced Rayman Origins, first an episodic video game designed by MichelAncel and developed by a small team of five people, but it was announced that...
U V W X Y Z See also External links Allen Adham: World of Warcraft. MichelAncel: Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil. Ed Annunziata: Ecco the Dolphin, Vectorman...