Ellipsanime (formerly known as Le Studio Ellipse, Ellipse Programme and Ellipse Animation) is a French animation studio that produces

television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising ...

s. It was founded in 1987. In February 2000 it merged with Expand SA; Expand sold the company to

Dargaud Société Dargaud, doing business as Les Éditions Dargaud, is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics series, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 1936 by Georges Dargaud (), publishing its first comics in 1943. H ...

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 one good example being the Canadian animation firm

Nelvana Limited Nelvana Enterprises, Inc. (; previously known as Nelvana Limited, sometimes known as Nelvana Animation and simply Nelvana or Nelvana Communications) is a Canadian animation studio and entertainment company owned by Corus Entertainment. Found ...

. Their early collaboration goes back to the television animated adaptation of the

My Pet Monster My Pet Monster is a character that began as a plush doll first produced by American Greetings in 1986. It has horns, blue fur, and a fanged smile, wearing breakaway orange plastic handcuffs. The property was sold to Saban Brands in 2012. Then in ...

franchise in 1987. The first official collaboration was in 1989 following the release of Nelvana and Ellipse's co-production, the Babar Movie in 1989. They then worked on the Babar animated series, revival from 2000. In 1991, Ellipse produced Doug,

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's first original animated series, and produced in association with

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and

Nickelodeon Animation Studio Nickelodeon Animation Studio is an American animation studio owned by Paramount Global. It has created many original television programs for Nickelodeon, such as ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''Rugrats'' and ''Avatar: The ...

. Nelvana has since co-produced on Ellipse's series from 1991 to 1996. Such examples Nelvana-Ellipse shows from the company would be,

Babar Babar ( ur, ), also variously spelled as Baber, Babur, and Babor is a male given name of Pashto, and Persian origin, and a popular male given name in Pakistan. It is generally taken in reference to the Persian ''babr'' ( Persian: ببر), meani ...

The Adventures of Tintin ''The Adventures of Tintin'' (french: Les Aventures de Tintin ) is a series of 24 ''bande dessinée'' albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European com ...

and

Blazing Dragons ''Blazing Dragons'' is an animated television series created by Terry Jones and Gavin Scott, and produced by Nelvana and Ellipse Animation. A coinciding graphic adventure video game was released for the original PlayStation and Sega Saturn in ...

. Ellipse (now Ellipsanime) is now a property of Dargaud, Inc. On the occasion of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2022, the Media-Participations group announces the creation of an umbrella brand Ellipse Animation which brings together its production labels in France Ellipsanime Productions, Dargaud Media and Dupuis Edition & Audiovisual.

Films, TV shows, and specials

* ''Akissi'' * ''Aliens Love Underpants'' * ''Alta Donna'' * ''

'' (co-production with

Nelvana Nelvana Enterprises, Inc. (; previously known as Nelvana Limited, sometimes known as Nelvana Animation and simply Nelvana or Nelvana Communications) is a Canadian animation studio and entertainment company owned by Corus Entertainment. Found ...

and Kodansha, revival only) * '' Babar: The Movie'' (co-production with

) * ''

Blake and Mortimer ''Blake and Mortimer'' is a Belgian comics series created by the writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs. It was one of the first series to appear in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Tintin'' in 1946, and was subsequently published in book ...

'' * ''

'' (co-production with

) * ''Chicken Town'' * '' Chumballs'' (co-production with Les Films de la Perrine and Araneo Belgium) * ''Contraptus ( fr)'' (a.k.a. ''Leonard'') * ''

Cubitus ''Cubitus'' is a Franco-Belgian comics series, and the basis for the ''Wowser'' cartoon series appearing in the United States. ''Cubitus'' was created by the Belgian cartoonist Dupa, and features Cubitus, a large anthropomorphic dog, who lives ...

'' (AKA: Wowser) * '' Doug'' (Seasons 2-4 only; co-production with

and

) * '' Fennec'' (co-production with

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3 and Cactus Animation) * ''

Garfield Originals ''Garfield Originals'' is a 2D animated short series created by Jim Davis and Philippe Vidal. The series premiered in France on December 6, 2019 on France 3 and Okoo; it is also available on France.tv (a streaming platform available only in Fran ...

'' * '' Harry & Bunnie'' * '' Kong: The Animated Series'' (co-production with

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and M6) * '' Miss BG'' (co-production with

Telefilm Canada Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation reporting to Canada's federal government through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Headquartered in Montreal, Telefilm provides services to the Canadian audiovisual industry with four regional offices in V ...

) * ''

'' (co-production with

) * '' Nick & Perry'' (co-production with M6, TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion, Junior, and

Westdeutscher Rundfunk Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (''West German Broadcasting Cologne''; WDR, ) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the con ...

) * ''

Rupert Rupert may refer to: People * Rupert (name), various people known by the given name or surname "Rupert" Places Canada *Rupert, Quebec, a village *Rupert Bay, a large bay located on the south-east shore of James Bay *Rupert River, Quebec *Rupert' ...

'' (co-production with

and YTV, seasons 1–3 only) * ''

Sonic Underground ''Sonic Underground'' (French: ''Sonic Le Rebelle'') is an animated television series co-produced by DIC Productions, L.P., Les Studios Tex S.A.R.L. and TF1. It is the third ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' animated series, and the last to be produced by ...

'' (animation, credited as Le Studio Ellipse)'' * ''Sullivan'' (a.k.a. ''Clorophylle'') * ''

Taratabong ''Taratabong: The World of the Meloditties'' (original Italian: ''Taratabong! Il Mondo dei Musicilli'') is a cartoon produced and directed by Italian studio Toposodo, based on an idea by Marco Bigliazzi and Fabrizio Bondi, and distributed worldwide ...

'' * ''

'' (co-production with

) * ''The Funny Little Bugs'' (a.k.a. ''Les Droles de Petites B-tes''; a.k.a. ''Funny Little Bugs'') * ''

The Garfield Show ''The Garfield Show'' is a CGI animated television series produced by Dargaud Media and Paws, Inc.. It is based on the American ''Garfield'' comic strip created by Jim Davis. The animated series focuses on a new series of adventures for the ch ...

'' * ''

The Jungle Book ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, w ...

'' (co-production with DQ Entertainment International and ZDF Enterprises, season 3 only) * '' The Magic Roundabout'' (a.k.a. '' Le Manege Enchante'') * ''

The Neverending Story ''The Neverending Story'' (german: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, published in 1979. The first English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several ...

'' (co-production with CineVox and

) * ''Yummy Toonies'' (a.k.a. ''Petit Creux'') * ''Wonder Wai''

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