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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherTemplate:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Ellipsanime Productions (formerly known as Le Studio Ellipse and Ellipse Programme) is a French animation studio that produces television programs and its part of entertainment production group Ellipse Animation, the animation production subsidiary of media conglomerate & publishing company Média Participations. 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]

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

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 1997, Ellipse Programme had merged together their animation production subsidiaries which were Alya Animation, Elma Animation and production facility Studio Ellipse into its main animation production division Ellipse Animation.

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 their 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, it was announced that French media entertainment conglomerate Média-Participations alongside their French publishing house Dargaud had brought Ellipsanime from its previous parent company Canal+ through their division StudioExpand, the acquisition gave both Dargaud and its parent Média-Participations and another animation production studio with Dargaud assuming all ownership of Ellipsanime's production activities alongside its animated programming portfolio which joined Dargaud's own largest animation and production division Dargaud Marina with its distribution division Dargaud Distribution (now Mediatoon Distribution) taking over Ellipsanime's production library along with their future projects.[6][7]

In January 2011, Ellipsanime was planning to produce a new adaptation of the French/Belgian comic book series Cubitis with Média-Participations another animation production studio Storimages according to Ellipsanime's former website with the titular character being placed onto the background of another show The Garfield Show with him doing the video but the two companies since then had no plans to produce the new adaptation of Cubitis.[8]

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 with Dargaud's international distribution division Mediatoon Distribution taking over MoonScoop's programming catalouge except their American division which was splitten.[9]

In October 2017, Ellipsanime Production and its parent Média-Participations announced that they had partnered with independent game publishing and digital entertainment company Ankama to establish 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 alongside Paris and Angoulême-based animation production studio Ellipse Studio for the former.[10]

In December 2019, following the departure of Média-Participations' previous CEO & president of its animation production companies and their Paris and Angoulême-based animation production studio Ellipse Studio Maïa Tubiana back in September of that same year, Ellipsanime Productions's parent company Média-Participations announced that they've hired Caroline Duvochel as their new CEO of Média-Participations' animation production activities namely Ellipsanime Productions (along with their Roubaix-based joint venture animation studio Madlab Animations), Dargaud Media and French/Belgian audiovisuel production company Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel along with its Paris and Angoulême-based in-house animation production studio Ellipse Studio. Former Tele Images Productions & Zodiak Kids director of animation productions and former Watch Next Media studio director Jules Garcia became Paris and Angoulême-based animation production studio Ellipse Studio's newly created position of directors[11]

In May 2021, Ellipsanime Productions's parent company Média-Participations announced that they've hired former Cyber Group Studios executive Caroline Audebert as their deputy head of Média-Participations' new division Média-Participations Development and Innovation which was being headed by Julien Papelier with Caroline Audebert overseeing Média-Participations' own animation production subsidiaries including Ellipsanime Productions (including their Roubaix-based joint venture animation studio Madlab Animations), Dargaud Media and French/Belgian audiovisuel production company Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel alongside their in-house Paris and Angoulême-based animation production studio Ellipse Studio.[12]

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 (including their Roubaix-based joint venture animation studio Madlab Animations), Dargaud Media, French/Belgian audiovisuel production company Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel and Les Cartooneurs Associés) alongside their in-house Paris and Angoulême-based animation production studio Ellipse Studio 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.[13]

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.[14] 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.[15]

Filmography

TV series

Title Years Network Notes
My Pet Monster 1987 ABC
Global Television Network (Canada)		 co-production with Nelvana, Golden Books and Hi-Tops Video
Zorro 1990–1993 The Family Channel co-production with New World Television, Zorro Productions and Goodman/Rosen Productions
Doug 1991–1994 Nickelodeon co-production with Games Animation and Jumbo Pictures
continued and owned by Disney Television Animation whilst Mediatoon Distribution and Paramount Global Content Distribution own the rights to seasons 1–4
Rupert 1991–1997 France 3
YTV (Canada)
ITV (United Kingdom)		 seasons 1–3 only
co-production with Nelvana, Television South (season 1) and Scottish Television (seasons 2–5)
The Adventures of Tintin 1991–1992 France 3
Global Television Network (Canada)		 co-production with Nelvana
Quarxs 1993 Canal+ & France 3 co-production with Z.A Production
Orson and Olivia 1994 Canal+
Rai Uno (Italy)
Leo & Popi[16] 1994–1997 France 3 under Ellipse License and Elma Animation
with Les Cartooneurs Associés, Canal+ D.A and TAL Productions
The Neverending Story 1995 Canal+
HBO (United States)
Family Channel (Canada)		 co-production with Nelvana and CineVox
Mot 1996 France 3 & Canal+ co-production with UFA
Blazing Dragons 1996–1998 Canal+/France 3/M6
Teletoon (Canada)
CITV (United Kingdom)		 co-production with Nelvana and Carlton Television
Blake and Mortimer 1997 Canal+ co-production with Dargaud Films and Cactus Animation
Nanook's Great Hunt 1997–1998 TF1
Teletoon		 co-production with Medver International and Mediatoon
Fennec 1997–1998 France 3 co-production with Cactus Animation and Motion International
Bob Morane[17] 1998 Canal+
Super Écran (Canada)		 co-production with Cactus Animation
Trouble with Sophie 1998–1999 France 3 & Canal J under Ellipse Story and Alya Animation
co-production with Medialab
Pirate Family 1999–2004 France 3
Radio-Canada (Canada)
Kong: The Animated Series 2000–2001 M6 co-production with BKN International
Nick & Perry M6
Kika (Germany)		 co-production with EM.TV & Merchandising AG and Victory Media Group
Owned by Studio 100
Babar[18] 2001 France 3
TVOntario (Canada)		 co-production with Nelvana and Kodansha
The Funny Little Bugs[19] 2001 France 3
Xcalibur 2001–2002 Canal+ & France 2
YTV (Canada)		 co-production with TVA International (episodes 1–25) and Tooncan Productions (episodes 26–40)
Agrilppine 2001 Canal+
Arte France
Corto Maltese 2003–2004 Canal+/France 2
Rai 3 (Italy)		 co-production with Rai Fiction and Pomalux
The Frog Show 2003–2005 M6 co-production with D'Ocon Films and Agogo
Miss BG[20][21] 2005–2006 France 5
Tiji
TVOntario (Canada)		 co-production with Breakthrough Films & Television and Def2shoot
Yakari 2005–2017 France 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
Potlach 2006 France 3
Rai 3 (Italy)		 co-production with Rai Fiction
The Magic Roundabout[22][23][24] 2007–2009 M6 & Playhouse Disney France
Nick Jr. (United Kingdom)		 co-production with Films Action and Play Production
Inami[25] 2007–2008 TF1 co-production with Seahorse Animation
Bird Squad[26] 2008–2009 Rai 2 (Italy) co-production with Toposodo, Araneo and Rai Fiction
Taratabong[27][28] 2009 Rai 3 co-production with Toposodo and Rai Fiction
Chumballs[29] France 5 co-production with Les Films de la Perrine
Contraptus[30] 2009–2010 Canal J & Gulli co-production with Le Lombard
The Jungle Book[31] 2010–2020 TF1/Piwi+
Nickelodeon India (India)
ZDF (Germany)		 inherited from MoonScoop
co-production with Les Cartooneurs Associés, DQ Entertainment and ZDF Enterprises
Chicken Town[32][33] 2011 Canal+ Family & OCS co-production with 1st Day Studios and Araneo
Based on the short of the same name by Klasky Csupo
Kinky and Cosy 2014 OCS co-production with Belvision
Boule et Bill 2016–2018 France 3/Piwi+
RTBF (Belgium)		 co-production with Dargaud Media and Belvision
The Fox/Badger Family 2018–2022 France 5 co-production with Dargaud Media and Philm CGI
Kid Lucky[34] 2020 M6
Rai Gulp (Italy)		 co-production with Dargaud Media, Belvision and Rai Ragazzi
The Smurfs[35] 2021–present TF1
La Trois & Ketnet (Belgium)
Kika (Germany)
Nickelodeon (International)		 co-production with Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel, Peyo Productions and RTBF
season 3 onwards
Living with Dad[36] 2022–present M6, Canal J & Gulli
La Trois (Belgium)		 co-production with Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel, Belvision and RTBF
Based on the comic book series Dad by Nob
Belfort & Lupin[37] 2025–present France 4
Auvio Kids TV & Ketnet (Belgium)
Radio-Canada (Canada)
SWR (Germany)[38]		 co-production with Dargaud Media, Belvision and RTBF

Films

Title Release date Distributor Notes
Babar: The Movie July 28, 1989 Fourm Distribution
Astral Films (Canada)		 co-production with Nelvana and The Clifford Ross Company
Becassine and the Viking Treasure December 12, 2001 Gebaka Films co-production with Home Made Movies and Image Film

Films, TV shows, and specials

References

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