Anthony Roux

Born March 9 1977 in Montreuil France and known under the pseudonym Tot he is a French screenwriter director producer and game designer best known as cofounder and art director of Ankama an entertainment company which produces various content set in the fictional world of Dofus 2004 and Wakfu 2012 He studied at the FineArts Academy of Tournai in Belgium He went on to work at an online agency in Roubaix where he met Camille Chafer and Emmanuel Darras In 2001 the three cofounded Ankama and in 2004 their first game a MMORPG Dofus 2004 debuted This turnedbased online game gained considerable popularity especially in France and Roux and his friends decided to expand the world created for the game In 2008 a game called Dofus 2 later retitled Wakfu 2012 was opened for beta testing At the same time an animated series also called Wakfu 2008 premiered on the public television channel France 3 Roux was a head writer for both the game and the series and in 2013 he went on to cocreate a spinoff intended for younger children Dofus Aux trésors de Kerubim 2013 He continues to create animated shows with seasons 3 and 4 of Wakfu supported by a crowdfounding campaigns and writes and illustrates Wakfurelated art books and comic books He is married to a comic book artist known under the pseudonym Azra with whom he cocreates some comic books