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In his bedroom, relaxing outside, sitting at the train station: any environment is fair game for a quick bout of sketching and character design. “The 3DS is not that big so it allows you to take it with you.” With a device so compact and portable, the French animator finds himself working anywhere he pleases. “The best part is the fact that you can animate whenever and wherever you want,” he points out.

Gemin explains that the advantages to working on the 3DS far exceed the drawbacks. His favorite characters to animate are pudgy foxes and pigeons, two animals he finds immensely interesting and adorable. Inspired by the simple and bouncy cartoons of the 1930s, as well as European childhood classics like Moomin and Les Shadocks, Gemin chose a unique personal style. For the past seven years he has honed his craft and slowly learned the ins and outs of basic animation. Gemin began animating with Flipnote in September of 2009, a month after the program launched for the DSi line of handhelds. In the beginning I just found it fun and easy, then the more I animated the more I saw the real potential and I began to put in more time on my work.” “Since I didn’t know much about animation programs such as TV Paint or Flash, I took what came to me first and it was Flipnote Studio. “I chose the DS as my main animation tool simply because it’s the first animation program I ever used,” Gemin recounts. It’s an application that seems to offer very little compared to professional animation tools, but still has enough tricks up its sleeve for long time users to create quality shorts. This animation program is based on classic flip book animation and lets creators make quick frame-by-frame cartoons by drawing on the popular handheld’s touch screen. Though the DS and 3DS are some of the most popular on-the-go systems in recent memory, many are unaware of the killer app that is Flipnote Studio. Though there are plenty of animators making a name for themselves on the internet, Gemin, who goes by “Kéké” online, is quickly rising to fame as the best of the best in 3DS-generated productions. Unbeknownst to most of the 30,000 plus residents, Annemasse is home to a talented and dedicated young animator named Kévin Gemin. On the border of France and Switzerland, far below the towering Alps, lies the French city of Annemasse.