Julien Renoult (1974) is an autonomous artist and art director for the entertainment- and advertising industry. He lives and works in the United States. Renoult (aka Leeroy Vanilla) studied as a designer and model maker and passed summa cum laude as an animator at l'école de l'images Les Gobelins. Following this, he studied at the prestigious Beaux Arts academy in Paris, where he honed his academic skills with M. Debord's anatomy lessons and spent days recreating and sketching exhibits in the Louvre.