# Ellipsanime

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.
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.

## 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 and Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel) under one umbrella group named Ellipse Animation, returning to the Ellipse Animation name after 24 years.
In January 2024, Ellipse Animation announced that they have acquired a majority stake in Milan-based Italian production company Studio Campedelli. 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.

## Filmography
### TV series

| Title | Years | Network | Notes |
| 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 |
| The Adventures of Tintin | 1991–1992 | France 3 Global Television Network | co-production with Nelvana |
| The Neverending Story | 1995 | HBO Family Channel | co-production with Nelvana and CineVox |
| Blazing Dragons | 1996–1998 | Canal+/France 3/M6 Teletoon CITV | co-production with Nelvana and Carlton Television |
| Blake and Mortimer | 1997 | Canal+ | co-production with Dargaud Films and Cactus Animation |
| Fennec | 1997–1998 | France 3 | co-production with Cactus Animation and Motion International |
| Bob Morane | 1998 | Canal+ Super Écran | co-production with Cactus Animation |
| Pirate Family | 1999–2004 | France 3 Radio-Canada | |
| Kong: The Animated Series | 2000–2001 | M6 | co-production with BKN International |
| Nick & Perry | 2000–2001 | M6 Kika | co-production with Victory Media Group |
| Babar | 2001 | France 3 TVOntario | co-production with Nelvana and Kodansha |
| The Funny Little Bugs | 2001 | France 3 | |
| Xcalibur | 2001–2002 | Canal+/France 2 YTV | co-production with TVA International (episodes 1–25) and Tooncan Productions (episodes 26–40) |
| Agrilppine | 2001 | Canal+ | |
| Corto Maltese | 2002 | Canal+/France 2 Rai 3 | co-production with Rai Fiction and Pomalux |
| The Frog Show | 2003–2005 | M6 | co-production with D'Ocon Films and Agogo |
| Potlach | 2006 | France 3 | co-production with Rai Fiction |
| Miss BG | 2005–2006 | France 5/Tiji TVOntario | co-production with Breakthrough Films & Television and Def2shoot |
| The Magic Roundabout | 2007–2009 | M6 Nick Jr. | co-production with Films Action and Play Production |
| Inami | 2007–2008 | TF1 | co-production with Seahorse Animation |
| Bird Squad | 2008–2009 | Rai 2 | co-production with Toposodo, Araneo and Rai Fiction |
| Taratabong | 2009 | Rai 3 | co-production with Toposodo and Rai Fiction |
| Chumballs | 2009 | France 5 | co-production with Les Films de la Perrine |
| Contraptus | 2009–2010 | Canal J Gulli | co-production with Le Lombard |
| The Jungle Book | 2010–2020 | TF1/Piwi+ (season 3) Nickelodeon India ZDF | inherited from MoonScoop co-production with DQ Entertainment and ZDF Enterprises |
| Chicken Town | 2011 | Canal+ Family OCS | co-production with 1st Day Studios |
| Kinky and Cosy | 2015 | OCS | co-production with Belvision |
| Boule et Bill | 2016–2018 | France 3/Piwi+ RTBF | 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 | 2020 | M6 Rai Gulp | co-production with Dargaud Media, Belvision and Rai Ragazzi |

## Films, TV shows, and specials

* Akissi
* Aliens Love Underpants
* Alta Donna
* Babar: The Movie (co-production with Nelvana)
* Chumballs (co-production with Les Films de la Perrine and Araneo Belgium)
* Cubitus (AKA: Wowser)
* Dream Land
* Living with Dad (adaptation of the comic series Dad)
* My Pet Monster (co-production with Nelvana)
* Rupert (co-production with Nelvana and YTV, seasons 1–3 only)
* Sullivan (a.k.a. Clorophylle)
* The Marsupilamis
* The Garfield Show
* Trotro and Zaza
* Yummy Toonies (a.k.a. Petit Creux)
* Wonder Wai