Servais was born in
Ostend, Belgium, to parents of
Walloon origin. He was the founder of the animation faculty of the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). Servais is best known for the 1979 animated film
Harpya, for which he won a
Palme d'Or at the
1979 Cannes Film Festival. Servais received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film –
Animafest Zagreb in 2016. At the
9th Magritte Awards, he received an
Honorary Magritte Award from the
Académie André Delvaux. In total, Servais won about 60 film prizes. Homages with retrospectives were organized in Paris, Madrid, Istanbul, Montreal, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro and St Petersburg. Servais died at his home in
Leffinge on 17 March 2023, at the age of 94. ==Filmography==