As an only child, young Camille-Elvis would often build igloos near his artist painter parents’ Savoyard barn. The discovery, at age 12, of Wallace and Gromit and the works of Aardman studios led him to abandon snow for modelling clay; armed with a camera, he produced his first animated film. Several other features would follow at high school, the Beaux-Arts de Saint-Etienne art school, then La Poudrière, a well-known animation school where he derived “two years of hard work and great pleasure”. It is there that the poetic and humorous story of an Inuit transformed by the melting icecaps was born, a theme as close to Camille-Elvis' heart as the endeavour to create an understated style that is already very much his own.