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\r\nTrying to get a handle on the career pathways taken by the Belgo-Tunisian Skan Triki is a little like rummaging through a treasure chest. Mad about Greek mythology, Lebanese cuisine, the Marvel universe, a little less enthusiastic about the school system. A print media journalist in another life, this seasoned autodidact today heads his own motion design studio and is bringing to life visual effects of every type for France T\u00e9l\u00e9vision, NATO, Dune and the sequel to the Black Panther film. Not too shabby, all in all.\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n

With a little hindsight, the location chosen for our meeting is not so lacking in significance. On this Friday afternoon, we are waiting for Skan at the European House of Authors<\/a>. The MEDAA, for those in the know. The Brussels general headquarters of several ideally located copyright companies. As it turns out, we are pretty rapidly made aware that an author\u2019s soul is lurking within this creative entrepreneur. \u2018How did I fall into the visual industry? Let us say a little haphazardly, a random set of circumstances. I don\u2019t have the qualifications for it, but that never intimidated my desire to learn.\u2019 Taking in his very short spell at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music and at the Haute \u00c9cole ISFSC, Skan has never tarried for long on the school benches. But a good deal earlier than the image, it was writing and journalism which spurred the Brussels inhabitant on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As laid-back as one can be, he retraces his path. \u2018Now that I think about it again, it was Homer who led me to journalism. I have been reading him since I was a child. In the first chapter of The Iliad<\/em>, an island is made mention of. It is told that Hephaestus was said to have learned the art of the forge there. I always wondered if this island actually existed. And at the age of 22, I finally took the time to provide an answer to my question.\u2019 The island of Lemnos does indeed exist, 100\u00a0km from the Turkish border. When he published his first reportage in a travel magazine, which no longer exists today, he had very little idea that, several months later, he would be putting his pen to work for one of the flagship daily newspapers in French-speaking Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One job-shadowing internship later, plus a few mentors, and so it was that Skan Triki became a journalist at Le Soir<\/em>. \u2018My greatest pleasure was working away on long-format pieces\u2019. It has to be said that the reporter has made carefully considered choices as to his sources of inspiration. On his smartphone, he takes us through the articles he always likes to keep close to hand. Lettres de province<\/em>, considered to be the first press reportage, written by Jules Vall\u00e8s, published in 1866 in Le Figaro<\/em>, the complete set of the reportages by Joseph Kessel published in Le Matin<\/em>, pieces by Fran\u00e7oise Giroux, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In parallel with writing, Skan Triki almost imperceptibly tilted towards the image. First of all, by completely losing himself in the videos posted on the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt<\/a> (which means \u2018in a nutshell\u2019 in German). \u2018These animation videos tackle a whole host of contemporary issues, always by means of a hard-hitting narrative thread. I was fascinated by the format, there had been nothing like it at all at that time. The graphics, the animations, the voices, and so on.\u2019\u00a0 Inspired, once more, by the astute team of YouTubers putting out these videos, another tangled turn of events led him to produce a computer graphics investigation following the Brussels attacks for the Le Nouvel Obs<\/em><\/a>. \u2018It\u2019s a bit of a clich\u00e9, but I literally spent my nights learning motion design in my bedroom. And in terms of skills, I had very little to go on. I very quickly learned to tinker around with Photoshop, because a mate had cracked the programme on his dad\u2019s computer, but that\u2019s it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once I have explored all the possibilities, I can never keep doing the same projects for too long. Learning is a vital need.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Getting a foot in the door, as they say. Skan Triki takes an inexhaustible interest in developing his motion designer know-how. He contributes to the automation and the designs for the post-production work of numerous videos for institutions and other media, be they national, European, even international at times. The RTBF, NATO, L\u2019Echo, RTS, France T\u00e9l\u00e9vision, etc. \u2018I have realised that I prefer it when the facts are related visually rather than in the written word. In my opinion, there is increased potential to have an impact on the general public.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n