Ellipsanime

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Ellipsanime Productions (formerly known as Le Studio Ellipse and Ellipse Programme) is a French animation studio that produces television programs. It was founded in 1987. In February 2000 it merged with Expand SA; Expand sold the company to Dargaud in 2003, and it became Ellipsanime in 2004. In 2014, Ellipsanime bought the assets of Moonscoop SA.[1]

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Ellipsanime Productions
FormerlyLe Studio Ellipse (1987–1990)
Ellipse Programme (1990–2000)
Company typeDivision
IndustryAnimation
Founded1987; 38 years ago (1987)
FounderPhilippe Gildas
Robert Réa
HeadquartersParis, France
Key people
Caroline Duvochel (managing director)
ProductsAnimated television series
Animated feature films
ParentCanal+ (1987–2000)
Expand SA (2000–2003)
Dargaud (2003–2022)
Ellipse Animation (2022–present)
Websitewww.ellipseanimation.com
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Ellipse has worked with many other animation companies, with the most reputable being Nelvana and Nickelodeon. Ellipse was best known in North America for co-producing seasons 2-4 of Nickelodeon's Doug; it did not return to the series after The Walt Disney Company bought the Doug intellectual property and Jumbo Pictures.

On the occasion of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2022, the Média-Participations group announced the creation of an umbrella brand Ellipse Animation which brings together its production labels in France Ellipsanime Productions, Dargaud Media and Dupuis Edition & Audiovisual.[2]

History

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In 1987, the company was founded by Philippe Gildas and Robert Réa under the name Ellipse Programme with Canal+ as their first owner. Three years later in 1990, Ellipse Programme entered the animation production genre by launching their own animation division.

In February 2000, Canal+ announced that they've merged their subsidiary Ellipse Programme with French television production outfit Expand Images into one group under the Expand name with Ellipse Programme becoming Expand Group's own division alongside Canal+ holding a 35% stake in the Expand Group.[3][4]

In January 2003, Ellipsanime had announced that they were shutting down their executive production facility Ellipse Studio and had absorbed most of their studio's production activity including their storyboarding and 3-D rendering work under the main animation production company. A month later in February of that same year, Ellipsanime's then parent company Canal+ Group and its film production and distribution company StudioCanal under their subsidiary StudioExpand announced that they were planning to sell its animation studio Ellipsanime along with 19 other production companies that made up StudioExpand with Ellipsanime cutting down their annual series output.[5]

On July 22, 2003, Ellipsanime announced that their previous parent company StudioCanal under their division StudioExpand had sold their animation production subsidiary Ellipsanime to French media entertainment conglomerate Média-Participations and their French-Belgian publishing company Dargaud, thrus marking Dargaud assuming ownership all of Ellipsanime's production activities and gave Dargaud another animation production studio with Ellipsanime's animated production portfolio joining Dargaud's own animation production portfolio as Dargaud's other animation and production unit Dargaud Marina became the largest animation production studio in France.[6][7]

In January 2014, Ellipsanime announced that under the Paris bankruptcy court they've acquired the assets of French animation and production group MoonScoop which went into bankruptcy administration back in July 2013 with Ellipsanime retaining two of MoonScoop's then-remaining employees and taken over MoonScoop's production library under Dargaud's international distribution division Mediatoon Distribution except their American division which was spliten.[8]

In October 2017, Ellipsanime announced that they had partnered with independent game publishing and digital entertainment company Ankama to launch a joint venture 2D animation production studio based in Roubaix, Hauts-de-France named MadLab Animations to handle the two animation studios' own production services.[9]

In June 2022 during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Ellipsanime Productions alongside their parent company Dargaud and its owner Media Participations announced that they were bringing their French animation production labels (which were Ellipsanime Productions, Dargaud Media, Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel and Les Cartooneurs Associés) under one umbrella group named Ellipse Animation, returning to the Ellipse Animation name after 24 years with Ellipsanime Productions being placed under Ellipse Animation as their production label.[10]

In January 2024, Ellipsanime Productions's parent company Ellipse Animation announced that they have acquired a majority stake in Milan-based Italian production company Studio Campedelli, expanding Ellipse Animation's production activities for the first time and their first expansion into the Italian animation production services with Studio Campedelli being placed under Ellipse Animation as their own subsidiary with Studio Campedelli CEOs Anne-Sophie Vanhollebeke and Valeria Brambilla continued leading the Italian animation studio under Ellipse giving them an Italian animation production company outside of France.[11] A week later in that same month, Ellipse Animation announced that they've expanded their operations into webtoons by launching a production division dedicated to animated series based on digital comics and will sit under Ellipse Animation's own animation production studio Ellipse Studio Angoulême.[12]

Filmography

TV series

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Title Years Network Notes
Zorro1990–1993The Family Channelco-production with New World Television, Zorro Productions and Goodman/Rosen Productions
Doug1991–1994Nickelodeonco-production with Games Animation and Jumbo Pictures
continued and owned by Disney Television Animation
The Adventures of Tintin 1991–1992France 3
Global Television Network (Canada)
co-production with Nelvana
Leo & Popi[13]1994–1997France 3under Ellipse License
with Les Cartooneurs Associés, Canal+ D.A, TAL Prodcutions and Elma Animation
The Neverending Story1995HBO (United States)
Family Channel (Canada)
co-production with Nelvana and CineVox
Blazing Dragons1996–1998Canal+/France 3/M6
Teletoon (Canada)
CITV (United Kingdom)
co-production with Nelvana and Carlton Television
Blake and Mortimer1997Canal+co-production with Dargaud Films and Cactus Animation
Fennec1997–1998France 3co-production with Cactus Animation and Motion International
Bob Morane[14]1998Canal+
Super Écran (Canada)
co-production with Cactus Animation
Pirate Family1999–2004France 3
Radio-Canada (Canada)
Kong: The Animated Series2000–2001M6co-production with BKN International
Nick & PerryM6
Kika (Germany)
co-production with Victory Media Group
Babar[15]2001France 3
TVOntario (Canada)
co-production with Nelvana and Kodansha
The Funny Little Bugs[16]2001France 3
Xcalibur2001–2002Canal+
France 2
YTV (Canada)
co-production with TVA International (episodes 1–25) and Tooncan Productions (episodes 26–40)
Agrilppine2001Canal+
Corto Maltese2002Canal+/France 2
Rai 3 (Italy)
co-production with Rai Fiction and Pomalux
The Frog Show2003–2005M6co-production with D'Ocon Films and Agogo
Miss BG[17]2005–2006France 5
Tiji
TVOntario (Canada)
co-production with Breakthrough Films & Television and Def2shoot
Yakari2005–2017France 3
WDR (seasons 3–5)
season 3 onwards
co-production with Storimages, Belvision, Les Cartooneurs Associés) (season 4), Dargaud Media (season 5), ARD (seasons 3–5) and 2 Minutes
Potlach2006France 3co-production with Rai Fiction
The Magic Roundabout[18][19][20]2007–2009M6
Playhouse Disney France
Nick Jr. (United Kingdom)
co-production with Films Action and Play Production
Inami[21]2007–2008TF1co-production with Seahorse Animation
Bird Squad[22]2008–2009Rai 2 (Italy)co-production with Toposodo, Araneo and Rai Fiction
Taratabong[23][24]2009Rai 3co-production with Toposodo and Rai Fiction
ChumballsFrance 5co-production with Les Films de la Perrine
Contraptus[25]2009–2010Canal J
Gulli
co-production with Le Lombard
The Jungle Book[26]2010–2020TF1/Piwi+
Nickelodeon India (India)
ZDF (Germany)
inherited from MoonScoop
co-production with Les Cartooneurs Associés, DQ Entertainment and ZDF Enterprises
Chicken Town[27][28]2011Canal+ Family
OCS
co-production with 1st Day Studios and Araneo
Based on the short of the same name by Klasky Csupo
Kinky and Cosy2015OCSco-production with Belvision
Boule et Bill2016–2018France 3/Piwi+
RTBF (Belgium)
co-production with Dargaud Media and Belvision
The Fox/Badger Family2018–2022France 5co-production with Dargaud Media and Philm CGI
Kid Lucky[29]2020M6
Rai Gulp (Italy)
co-production with Dargaud Media, Belvision and Rai Ragazzi
The Smurfs[30]2021–presentTF1
La Trois (Belgium)
Ketnet (Netherlands)
Nickelodeon (International)
co-production with Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel and Peyo Productions
season 3 onwards
Living with Dad[31]2022–presentM6
Canal J
Gulli
La Trois
co-production with Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel and Belvision
Based on the comic book series Dad by Nob
Belfort and Lupin[32]2025–presentFrance 4
Auvio Kids TV (Belgium)
Radio-Canada (Canada)
Ketnet (Netherlands)
SWR (Germany)[33]
co-production with Dargaud Media, Belvision and RTBF
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