Wilfried Pain

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**Wilfried "Winny" Pain** is a co-director on *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*.

## Biography

Wilfried studied at Goeblins from 2002 to 2005.

He worked at Method Production on *Mikido* (with Thomas Astruc) and at Ankama on *Wakfu* (with Christelle Abgrall). He left *Wakfu* after its production finished to join Thomas Astruc to work on *Miraculous*.

## Trivia

* Wilfried is called "Pére WI2NY" by the fans because of how fatherly he acts towards the fans and because of his cameo within *Ultimate Mecha Strike III* in "Gamer".
* While Wilfried loves all of the characters, some of his favorite characters are Chloé Bourgeois and Alya Césaire.
	+ He likes Chloé in both her regular and akumatized forms.
	+ He likes Alya because she is the best friend, the sidekick, and doesn't hide in the shadows with her blog. "She is like the Jiminy Cricket *(Pinocchio)* for Marinette."
	+ His favorite male character is Gabriel Agreste because "I'm a father and I love my wife ... I can relate to him.".
* The Evillustrator's powers interest Wilfried because Wilfried is a storyboard artist.
* Between Ladybug and Cat Noir, Wilfried prefers Cat Noir.
	+ He likes Cat Noir's night vision, puns, cool attitude, forced style, and bad timing.
* Wilfried enjoys the AU where Félix is Adrien's older brother. Likewise, he enjoys parallel universes as they are a creative way to "test ideas".
	+ He liked Félix's original design but understands why the change from Félix to Adrien was necessary.
* Films that Wilfried enjoy are *Bring It On!* and *Pursuit of Happiness*.
	+ His absolute favorites are *A River Run Through It* and *My Name is Nobody*.
* On September 6, 2016, Wilfried said that he would prepare a spoiler as a thank you for 10000 followers.
	+ The spoiler ended up being the storyboard for the balcony scene in Glaciator.
* For Season 2, Wilfried is writing an episode with Thomas Astruc and Sébastien Thibaudeau.
	+ The main theme of this episode will be "Drums. Drums. More drums. (small break) Silent. Kisses."
	+ When the episode airs, he expects the fandom to explode and break.
	+ On February 28, 2017, he announced that the final animatic for this episode is finished.
	+ On April 9, 2016, Wilfried released a screenshot of this episode with the line "Marinette est allongée dans son lit." This directly translates to "Marinette is lying in bed.".
	+ He has had to slow dance with Thomas Astruc for a reference to a ball scene. This footage has been kept secure and away from him.
* Wilfried makes a cameo in "Sapotis" as a voice of Sapotis.
* Wilfried storyboarded Queen Bee's transformation sequence.

## External links

* Wilfried's Facebook
* Wilfried's official website
* Wilfried's Twitter

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/727471090117824512
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 http://raikumesblog.tumblr.com/post/140072123446/miraculous-ladybug-interview-winny
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/WinnyGZ/status/763315462604226560
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/WinnyGZ/status/703842390944063488
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/WinnyGZ/status/773179775301148673
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/Winny\_BayDay/status/773814546549051392
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/WinnyGZ/status/836660022385967104
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/WinnyGZ/status/718889362352709632
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/WinnyGZ/status/764355185879687168
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/russia\_ml/status/955391291298340864
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/Winny\_BayDay/status/1064460955839619073

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