Johane Matte

Johane Matte is a comic book artist and writer who has worked on a total of six Avatar: The Last Airbender comics and helped provide storyboard art for three episodes of Avatar and six episodes of The Legend of Korra.
== Avatar: The Last Airbender credits ==
=== Storyboard artist ===
=== Storyboard revisionist ===
=== Comic artist ===
=== Comic writer ===
== The Legend of Korra credits ==
=== Storyboard artist ===
== Selected other credits ==
=== Television work ===
* 3Below: Tales of Arcadia (director and story supervisor)
* A Bunch of Munsch (assistant animator)
* Animal Crackers (background design supervisor)
* David Copperfield (TV movie - rendering artist)
* The Little Lulu Show (assistant animator, character designer, and character design supervisor)
* The Penguins of Madagascar (storyboard artist)
=== Filmography ===
* Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken (2023 - storyboard artist)
* Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012 - storyboard artist)
* Rise of the Guardians (2012 - storyboard artist)
* Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011 - storyboard artist)
* How to Train Your Dragon (2010 - storyboard artist)
== Biographical information ==
=== Personal life ===
Johane Matte was born in 1971 in Amos, Quebec, Canada. She attended Algonquin College from 1989 to 1991 and enrolled in Graphic Design during her first year, but switched to Television Animation when the college announced it was offering that course in the following year.
=== Career ===
Matte learned more about television animation over the years, working in different studios with talented colleagues. She currently resides in Burbank, California.
== Awards ==
* 2013: Won an Annie Award for Rise of the Guardians (Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production)
== Trivia ==
* Matte has various online accounts under the username "rufftoon".
** While working full-time on the original series,DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Dos Santos, Joaquim & Montgomery, Lauren (July 1, 2014). "Darkness Falls" commentary. Book Two: Spirits Blu-ray. Matte created a fan-comic under this username titled , which is updated periodically on her DeviantArt.
* Her favorite Avatar characters are General Iroh and Admiral Zhao.
* Matte has published blogs critical of film, especially on the portrayal of in the movie, the dreadlocks hairstyle for , and how firebenders require a source to bend fire.
* Matte was torn in deciding whether to work on The Legend of Korra television series and the Rise of the Guardians film, but ultimately chose the latter. She would later join the production crew as a storyboard artist on the series from the show's second season onward. 
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