Montreal-based Tonic DNA has acquired Ngenious Studio, all of its IP belongings, and has appointed Ngenious founder Éric Gervais-Després as its new head of R&D and pipeline growth.
Based on Tonic, this acquisition is an element of a bigger technique on the firm to higher place itself in a market that’s more and more curious about combined 2nd/3d animation. It’ll additionally enable the corporate to develope methods and expertise for future productions, each in movie/collection and promoting.
Tonic will look to profit from Gervais-Després’ expertise gained over a long time of animation and vfx work on main international productions together with Leap!, Gnomeo & Juliet, 300, and Improbable 4 (2005), in addition to his years at Walt Disney Characteristic Animation.
Acquisition particulars:
- Ngenious Studio productions embody Felix and the Hidden Treasure and Troll: The Story of a Tail, and the corporate not too long ago collaborated on Katak: The Courageous Beluga, the highest-grossing Quebec-produced movie of 2023.
- Ngenius has its personal state-of-the-art GPU rendering farm which can now be at Tonic’s disposal.
- Gervais-Després is a key determine within the Quebec animation business. He spent a few years at Walt Disney Characteristic Animation within the Nineteen Nineties-2000s earlier than returning to Canada, the place he participated in quite a few native and worldwide productions. In 2016, he based Ngenious with Benoit Mother or father.
- Mentioned Gervais-Després in a launch: “Tonic DNA is the final word studio for fusing methods on the highest stage. I’m thrilled to affix this studio and mix my love for 2D and 3D, discovering collectively new methods to astonish the animation world, and create mind-blowing visuals like by no means earlier than.”
- Tonic DNA common supervisor François Sansregret added: “Tonic DNA is especially excited and thrilled concerning the addition of Eric and his studio infrastructure to our present groups. Plenty of enjoyable to return.”
Pictured at high: Katak: The Courageous Beluga
