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Matthieu Bessudo aka McBess was born in Auribeau-sur-Siagne, a small town near Cannes in France. After graduating from the renowned multimedia school Supinfocom (where he studied 3D animation) he then relocated to London to work for the Mill, an Oscar-winning VFX company. McBess' work has been shown in galleries all over the world and his art has been featured in countless art and lifestyle publications. McBess' character-based style is a mix of influences. He cites animation studio, Fleischer, as being a major inspiration. The main characters in his work are most often representations of himself in a surreal world filled with his other passions - food and music. Mcbess modernizes his monochromatic cartoons by using contemporary shapes, symbols and type faces that usually appear in 2D and animation. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.