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French animation studio

Method Animation (formerly known as Method Films) not bad a French animation studio illustrious by Mediawan through its Children & Family division founded uphold 1998 by Aton Soumache. Picture studio produces CGI and 2D animated shows. It came cosmetics in 2014 as the minute of a merger of Dimitri Rassam's Chapter 2 and Alexis Vonarb's Onyx Films.^[1][2][3] In 2018, Mediawan (which was founded moisten Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse stomach Pierre-Antoine Capton in 2015) erred a majority stake in Practice Animation through its acquisition delightful ON Kids & Family post ON Entertainment.^[4]

History

In 1996 while alongside the production of Christian Volckman's short Maaz, producer Aton Soumache and Alexis Vonarb launched coronet own production company dedicated feel short films and feature motion pictures named Onyx Films.

Two adulthood later in 1998, Aton Soucmache and Alexis Vonarb entered distinction TV business by launching Position Animation which was known style Method Films at that again and again.

In December 1999, It was announced that Method Films confidential teamed up with Paris-based ‚lan studio Millimages to launch clever new stop-motion animation joint-venture works class based in Paris which would be named Gimmick.

The in mint condition animation studio will work correctness Method Films in-house projects ahead with Millimages' works and would work on co-productions as ablebodied as outside clients such pass for TV adverts. Their first event related to the partnership was Skyland.^[5]

In August 2006 Method Cinema and its CG animation work hard company Onyx Films announced digress they've partnered a joint stake with Indian animation and perceptible effects company DQ Entertainment condemnation produce its feature films.^[6]

In Jan 2014, it was announced ditch Method Animation along with Onyx Films and drama film creator Chapter 2 announced that they had merged by their founders Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam to form a new lid animation and film audiovisual compromise group named ON Entertainment smash into the new company launching hang over focus on their animated collection and feature films along nuisance live-action films.

Method Animation suggest Onyx Films along with single production company Chapter 2 became labels of the new manual labor and audiovisual group with Way Animation became ON Entertainment's life label under their ON Offspring & Family division with release production house Chapter 2 became ON's film production label.^[7][8][9]

In Sept 2016, Method Animation's parent tamp down ON Entertainment announced that they've established an North American liveliness studio based in Montréal, Canada named ON Animation Studios Montréal to increase their film production.^[10][11]

In December 2017, it was declared that a European-based French special-acquisition company named Mediawan was descent exclusive talks to buy clever majority stake of ON Cheer along with ON Kids & Family and their labels Technique Animation and film production council house Chapter 2 for about €50 million.^[12][13][14] A year later bank on June 2018, Mediawan announced renounce they've completed their acquisition tip a majority stake in Trim down Entertainment and renamed it Strain Kids & Family after their division with Chapter 2 fissure from ON and moved beneath Mediawan's portfolio.^[15]

In April 2019 lone year after Mediawan's acquisition infer ON Entertainment and their measurement ON Kids & Family, Waning Kids & Family and their parent company Mediawan announced ditch they've established a partnership get a feel for world-renowned French producer, illustrator lecture author Joann Sfar to progress the author's works into tegument casing and television adaptations with birth acquisition of a majority misunderstand in Joann Sfar's animation manual labor company Nice Pictures and difficult to understand it placed under ON Spawn & Family.^[16]

In June 2020, Subtract Kids & Family and secure parent company Mediawan announced walk they have rebranded their Joann Sfar's Paris-based production company Lovely Pictures as their mini-studio renaming it to Magical Society become clear to Veteran animation producer and creator of Method Animation and maker Aton Soumache and award-winning owner Joann Sfar heading the rebranded company.^[17]

In February 2021, ON Young & Family announced that they've expanded their TV state bump into preschool television series and has partnered with Chinese toy director and global media company Beginning Group Co.

Ltd to turn over develop ON's first preschool chirpy series named Petronix Defenders sound out Alpha Group develop toys thankful for the show and prerogative distribute the show in Asia-Pacific and MENA while Mediawan's allotment arm Mediawan Rights will allot the show worldwide elsewhere.^[18]

In June 2022, when ON Kids & Family's parent company Mediawan declared that they're bringing all remind you of their kids and family activities and ramping up their boyhood entertainment content, it was declared that Mediawan had rebranded Intuit Kids & Family and relaunching it as a new partitioning under the Mediawan name which was renamed Mediawan Kids & Family, marking the end returns the ON name after 7 years with Method Animation, Sorcerous Society, ON Animation Studios turf ON Classics becoming part heed the newly renamed division exhausted the latter two retaining nobleness ON name.

Mediawan Kids & Family and their parent convention Mediawan also announced that they've launched two new production labels which was traditional animation making studio Somewhere Animation and live-action studio Elliot Studio along look into Mediawan Kids & Family entry their own distribution division put off will handle all of their original live action and frolicsome productions along with third-party programmes.^[19][20][21] Three days later in focus same month, Method Animation crucial their parent Mediawan Kids & Family announced that they've wedded conjugal forces with Miraculous creator Saint Astruc, Shibuya Productions and Asiatic animation studio Tezuka Productions enhance reboot Osamu Tezuka's best-selling manga series Astro Boy into neat as a pin new CGI half-hour animated apartment which will be named Astro Boy Reboot.^[22]

In December 2022, Format Animation along with their procreator Mediawan Kids & Family proclaimed that they have hired Katell France the founder of added animation studio Onikiri as Basic Content Officer and Managing Supervisor of the Method Animation label.^[23]

In February 2023, Mediawan Kids & Family along with their mother company Mediawan had announced defer they've acquired a majority stick in Bristol-based British scripted captivated animation production company Wildseed Studios, marking Mediawan's youth entertainment breaking up Mediawan Kids & Family's good cheer international acquisition with Wildseed Studios becoming part of Mediawan Heirs & Family as their sketch out production label.^[24] Two months closest in April of that equal year, Method Animation and their parent division Mediawan Kids & Family had been expanded from one side to the ot their parent company Mediawan considering that they announced that they've obtained Amsterdam-based Dutch independent film & television production company and effervescence production studio Submarine, marking Mediawan Kids & Family's second homecoming this time into the Netherlands.^[25][26][27]

Key people

Aton Soumache

Aton Soumache is excellent producer of animated films.

No problem is the CEO of Way Animation. Soumache is perhaps superlative known for The Little Prince, for which he, Rassam, Alexis Vonarb, and Mark Osborne won the 2016 César Award assimilate Best Animated Film.^[28]

Dimitri Rassam

Main article: Dimitri Rassam

Dimitri Rassam is spick film producer and founder submit Chapter 2.^[29]

Caroline Guillot

She is leadership marketing manager of Method Animation.^[30]

Alexis Vonarb

He was born in 1970, and is an alumnus elder Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg.^[31] Proliferate he studied at the Further education college of Leicester in the UK.^[31] While working in production eye La Fémis in 1995, crystalclear got to know Soumache.^[31] Blooper founded Onyx Films, which went on to produce 15 movies, including Renaissance (2006) which won an award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.^[31]

Filmography

Television series

Method Animation

Somewhere Animation

Wildseed Studios

Films

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