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Futurikon
Futurikon is a French independent production company created in 1996 by Philippe Delarue, the company’s CEO and Producer, and based in Paris. It specializes in the production and international sales of animated programs, feature films and documentaries. Futurikon acts as both executive producer and line producer of the programs it develops, and is open to co-producing content with other partners. Most famous for the feature film '' Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'', Futurikon has been involved in several other animations. Works Feature films Animation *''Dragon Hunters'' (2008) *'' Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'' (2013) *'' Minuscule - Mandibles from Far Away'' (2019) Live-action *''Playground Chronicles'' (2012) Animated series *'' Chronokids'' (2016) *'' Brico Club'', aka ''Crafty Kids Club'' (2012) *''Trolls of Troy'' (2013–2014) *''Captain Biceps'' (2010–2011) *''A Cow, A Cat and the Ocean'' *''Dragon Hunters'' (2006–2012) *'' Fly Tales'' (1999) *''Gloria, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minuscule (TV Series)
''Minuscule'' is a French TV series, produced by Futurikon and created by Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo. The TV series comes in the form of short segments – focusing mostly on a variety of insects – where their mundane, everyday lives take on a humorous turn. Superimposing stylized characters over real-life scenery (of rural France), the main characters' comical scenarios come in the form of silent comedy. Aside from the main characters, animals and humans may also show up in minor roles, but the show does not utilize any proper spoken dialogue. The series had been compared to popular media by the staff themselves. These include the film '' Microcosmos'', nature-related documentaries from National Geographic, as well as cartoons by Tex Avery and cartoons produced for the Warner Brothers. Plot ''Minuscule'' has a few short segments per episode, all of which have its own self-contained story. The series also has a variety of specific and well-known insect species (all wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Hunters (film)
''Dragon Hunters'' ( French: ''Chasseurs de dragons'') is a 2008 French-German-Luxembourgish 3D computer-animated fantasy film telling the adventures of two dragon hunters, written by Frédéric Engel-Lenoir, directed by creator Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel with music by Klaus Badelt and produced by Philippe Delarue and Tilo Seiffert. It features the voices of Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Marie Drion in the French version and Forest Whitaker, Rob Paulsen and Mary Mouser in the English version. The film was produced by Futurikon, and co-produced by LuxAnimation, Mac Guff Ligne and Trixter. It shares the same creative universe as the ''Dragon Hunters'' TV series. It was released on March 26, 2008 in France and on March 20, 2008 in Russia and New Zealand. It was also distributed by Icon Productions and Bac Films. The film received a Cristal Award nomination for Best Feature and it earned $12,235,843 on a €12,000,000 budget. ''Dragon Hunters'' was released on DVD on April 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Futurikon is a French independent production company created in 1996 by Philippe Delarue, the company’s CEO and Producer, and based in Paris. It specializes in the production and international sales of animated programs, feature films and documentaries. Futurikon acts as both executive producer and line producer of the programs it develops, and is open to co-producing content with other partners. Most famous for the feature film '' Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'', Futurikon has been involved in several other animations. Works Feature films Animation *''Dragon Hunters'' (2008) *'' Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'' (2013) *''Minuscule - Mandibles from Far Away'' (2019) Live-action *''Playground Chronicles'' (2012) Animated series *'' Chronokids'' (2016) *'' Brico Club'', aka ''Crafty Kids Club'' (2012) *''Trolls of Troy'' (2013–2014) *''Captain Biceps'' (2010–2011) *''A Cow, A Cat and the Ocean'' *''Dragon Hunters'' (2006–2012) *''Fly Tales'' (1999) *''Gloria, Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Allergy (TV Series)
''Monster Allergy'' is an internationally co-produced animated television series co-created by Katja Centomo, Francesco Artibani, Alessandro Barbucci, and Barbara Canepa. It was jointly produced by Futurikon, Rainbow, M6, Rai Fiction and ZDF. Based on the Italian comic book series of the same name, it was initially broadcast on Rai 2 in Italy, and later aired on M6 in France, on KiKa in Germany, on YTV (TV channel), YTV in Canada, and on Kids' WB in the United States. Beginning on 13 March 2018, the series has been officially made available for streaming on YouTube. Plot ''Monster Allergy'' is based on the comic book series of the same name. The series follows a young boy Ezekiel Zick (nicknamed Zick) who suffers from various allergies and has the ability to see the invisible monsters that live among us. Along with help of his best friend, Elena Potato and his talking cat, Timothy, Zick hopes to hone his powers to one day become a Monster Tamer just like his dad, Zobed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Hunters
Dragon Hunters ( French: ''Chasseurs de dragons'') is an animated fantasy comedy television series created by Arthur Qwak and produced by the French company Futurikon and Tooncan. It follows the adventures of two hunters for hire through a medieval world of floating land masses that is terrorized by a widely varying menace of monsters known collectively as dragons. A 3-D feature film and a videogame based on the same creative universe have also been released. Plot Set in a Medieval world made of Floating Land Masses, two men, Gwizdo and Lian-Chu, are professional dragon hunters who have known each other since they were children. Perpetually flat broke, they are forced to continually stay at the Snoring Dragon Inn until they can get another dragon-hunting contract to pay their rent. The proprietress of the inn is Jeanneline, a three-time divorcee with two daughters, one of whom is also a professional dragon hunter who doesn't see her mother much. Cast and characters Main charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malo Korrigan
''Malo Korrigan'' (full English title ''Malo Korrigan and the Space Tracers'', French title ''Malo Korrigan et les Traceurs de l'espace'') is a French animated television series with 26 episodes, created by Arthur Qwak and Norman J. LeBlanc of Futurikon. It is a Futurikon - Tooncan - M6 Métropole Télévision - Canal J co-production and distributed by M6 Métropole Télévision. The English theme song is an original song composed for the TV series by Deep Forest. It was first aired in France during 2002; and later aired in the UK, Canada, Spain, Zimbabwe, Russia, Namibia, Kenya and on SABC1 in South Africa. Synopsis After a centuries long intergalactic war, peace finally reigns in the universe. More than 200 planets have joined together to form the Cosmocratic League with the aims of maintaining the peace and promoting the economic development of space. Interplanetary transport has become a vital service in maintaining the stability and unity of the League, with vast profits bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ugly Duckling And Me!
''The Ugly Duckling and Me!'' is a 2006 animated film directed by Michael Hegner and Karsten Kiilerich. Intended for a family audience, it is a modern adaptation of the 1843 fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisti .... ''The Yorkshire Post'' described it as a "feel good" film for family audiences. The film follows over a rat named Ratsco who has a dream about having his own family. The life changes when an egg falls out of its nest revealing an ugly duckling with brushy wings, and he soon becomes a father. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willa's Wild Life
''Willa's Wild Life'' is an animated television series based on Dan Yaccarino's book '' An Octopus Followed Me Home.'' The series originally aired on Qubo in the United States (and has been put back on Qubo's schedule from 2019 to 2020), YTV in Canada and TF1 and Piwi+ in France. The series is Flash-animated with Toon Boom Harmony. International airings aired from October 7, 2008 to June 27, 2013. 26 episodes were produced. Overview The series is about a girl named Willa (Jordan Todosey) who has a giraffe, a camel, two elephants, an alligator, and many more zoo animals. Characters People * Willa (Jordan Todosey) is the main character of the series, who has many exotic animals, much to her father's discomfort. She has many wacky adventures and learns lessons along the way. Because of her adventures, she often gets into trouble. Willa is kindhearted and caring and never tries to hurt her friends' feelings. She is usually seen in a green shirt, a red dress and a green headband. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ugly Duckling And Me (TV Series)
''The Ugly Duckling and Me!'' is a 2006 animated film directed by Michael Hegner and Karsten Kiilerich. Intended for a family audience, it is a modern adaptation of the 1843 fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisti .... ''The Yorkshire Post'' described it as a "feel good" film for family audiences. The film follows over a rat named Ratsco who has a dream about having his own family. The life changes when an egg falls out of its nest revealing an ugly duckling with brushy wings, and he soon becomes a father. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Allergy
''Monster Allergy'' is an Italian comic book series created by Alessandro Barbucci, Katja Centomo, Francesco Artibani and Barbara Canepa of Sky Doll. Barbucci and Canepa had previously co-created the ''W.I.T.C.H.'' comic series. ''Monster Allergy'' lasted 29 issues; however, it is still in the course of reprints, in newspaper stands on the 13th of every month. In 2008, Barbara Canepa stated that she and her co-creators gained back the copyright to ''Monster Allergy'' after its first publishing run. On 24 May 2015, Tunué announced the new edition of the complete comic book, in two volumes of over 700 pages each, including a final unpublished episode. A sequel series titled ''Monster Allergy Evolution'' began in 2016. Plot ''Monster Allergy'' details the adventures of Elena Potato, who moves with her family to Old Mill Village, and Ezekiel Zick, whose father is missing and is affected by all sorts of allergies including one that allows him to see monsters. Together, they uncove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley Of The Lost Ants
''Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'' (french: Minuscule : La vallée des fourmis perdues) is a 2013 French-Belgian live action animated film based on the television series ''Minuscule''. The film was written and directed by series creators Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo. This film is a sound film with a synchronized soundtrack featuring music and sound effects and with little to no spoken dialogue. It won the César Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 40th César Awards. A sequel, '' Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away'', was released on January 30, 2019. Plot In the valleys of France, a family of ladybugs give birth to their first litter & raise them throughout the years until they're ready to reach independence. A bold male named Cox is constantly bullied by a group of flies led by the childish Toofette, and during one time where he gets separated while being annoyed, attempts to fly away back to his family, but when they chase after him, he crashes into a rock an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaput And Zösky
''Kaput and Zösky: The Ultimate Obliterators'' is a 2002-2003 animated cartoon series based on the comic book series from the cartoonist Lewis Trondheim called ''Kaput et Zösky''. 26 episodes were produced. Some of the stories featured in the comics have been converted into the series that ran on weekends and late at night in the United States on the Nicktoons (American TV channel), Nicktoons Network, Australia on Network 10's Cheez TV and Toasted TV, United Kingdom on Channel 4 and Channel 5 (UK), Channel 5's Shake! and in Canada on Teletoon. Premise Bloodthirsty conquerors, Kaput and Zösky travel the universe, landing on planets and trying to conquer them. They are not the most able tyrants, however, and have trouble holding any planet for more than a few days, if they can even manage to dominate it in the first place. In fact, they spend as much time running for their lives as they do enslaving and slaughtering innocents. Kaput and Zösky are a dynamic, if generic, duo. Zös ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |