Studio La Cachette is a French

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based in

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. It was co-founded by Ulysse Malassagne, Julien Chheng and Ousama Bouacheria in 2014. The studio is best known for providing animation services in

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's television series '' Primal'' and '' Unicorn: Warriors Eternal'', as well as for their contributions to the anthology series ''

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'' and '' Star Wars: Visions''.

History

La Cachette first gained attention in 2013 after the release of ''Kairos'', an animated trailer for Malassagne's comic of the same name. The short went viral thanks to the coverage of animation news websites like Catsuka and

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. The studio was then contracted to do a 2D animated sequence for the French computer animated film '' Mune: Guardian of the Moon'' (2014), in which Bouacheria was already working as a storyboard artist. In 2019, La Cachette produced an episode for

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''. It was the only fully 2D animated entry in the series first season. Around this time, the studio received an offer from

to do the pilot for his next project, '' Primal''. The series premiered on

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on October 8, 2019, and received widespread critical acclaim, with much praise for its animation. In August 2020, the series was renewed for a second season and has since received six Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards nominations, winning five of them, including Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. A third season is currently in development. La Cachette and Tartakovsky would collaborate once again in '' Unicorn: Warriors Eternal'' (2023), a long gestating project from Tartakovsky which was conceived during his early days at

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. Similarly to ''Primal'', the series received positive reviews. In 2023,

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announced that La Cachette was one of the animated studios that had created a short for the second volume of the animated anthology series '' Star Wars: Visions''. Written and directed by Chheng, "The Spy Dancer" was released on May 4, 2023, along the rest of the shorts. The season received critical acclaim. More recently, Malassagne, Chheng and Bouacheria started working on their own personal projects. The first of these, Malassagne's ''Le Collège Noir'', debuted on October 31, 2023 on the French SVOD platform ADN. An adaptation of his comic of the same name, the television series consists of six episodes with a length of 15 minutes each, and was produced in collaboration with Japanese studio

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. The other two projects are Bouacheria's ''Mehdi, Avis de Passage'', based on his personal experience as a postman before he joined the Gobelins school, and Chheng's ''Mu Yi'', a fantasy feature film that takes inspiration from

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Filmography

Television

Short films

* ''Le Royaume'' (2010) * ''Kairos'' (2013) * '' The Ballad of Bea & Cad'' (2018)

Contract works

* '' Mune: Guardian of the Moon'' (2014)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cachette Film production companies of France French animation studios