Benjamin Renner graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Angoulême in 2004. He enrolled at the La Poudrière, where he directed three films. In 2008 he started working on the animated feature film Ernest and Celestine (2012), which won the César Award for Best Feature Film in 2013 and the Academy Award nomination. In the year of 2015, he published a comic book Le Grand Méchant Renard, developing it into a feature-animated film.