France Télévisions’ manufacturing arm france.television has acquired a majority stake in Montpellier-based Dwarf Animation Studio.
Underneath the deal, france.television plans to offer Dwarf with a extra “strong operational infrastructure.” In return, the partnership will speed up france.television’s plans to ascertain a artistic hub within the south of France.
Dwarf has labored on a number of big-budget worldwide movie and television productions, together with Netflix’s My Dad the Bounty Hunter and Trash Truck in addition to Disney+’s Monsters at Work. The studio additionally works on a number of French applications together with La tribu des Monchhichi, Pirata et Capitano, and Drôles de Petites Bêtes.
The studio was based in 2010 by Olivier Pinol, a vfx veteran who labored at main international studios together with Weta Digital (senior lighting director on the unique Avatar), Dreamworks (vfx on Shrek), and Ardour Footage. Primarily based in Montpellier, France, the corporate prides itself on embracing and adapting to new applied sciences.
Of the brand new partnership, Pinol mentioned, “I’m extremely delighted to affix forces with the wonderful group at france.television studio to welcome the artistic neighborhood to the South of France. Having such a possibility to develop and develop Dwarf Animation Studio in addition to construct a artistic hub collectively is a really gratifying and eye-opening expertise.”
He went on, “Our ambition is to assist form the subsequent part of the animation manufacturing pipeline by including better flexibility by way of a faster iterative course of. We’ve initiated a Discord server devoted to real-time animation and vfx to assist construct neighborhood and share information with different studios around the globe.”
France.television CEO Laurence Schwob added, “This partnership with Dwarf Animation Studio, who’s pushing the envelope in real-time animation, comes at an thrilling time as france.television studio was not too long ago awarded an endowment by the French Ministry of Tradition as a part of the France 2030 initiative which goals to develop superior know-how in France related to manufacturing innovation of recent types of leisure.”
Underneath the brand new deal, France.television and Dwarf plan on constructing out the studio’s front-end pre-production choices together with visible growth, storyboarding, and editorial.
