Ellipsanime & TimpelPictures Present Under the School

Ellipsanime Productions and TimpelPictures are set to premiere Under the School at Cartoon Forum next week.

Under the School, the first original animated series created by director Nicolas Bary, centers on a boarding school that turns the world’s worst students into the best through mysterious reconditioning methods. The two new students Bug and Doudou refuse to go quietly.

The series is also being adapted as a comic book, co-edited by Dupuis and TimpelPictures.

Arthur Colignon, producer for Ellipsanime Productions, said: “Through their adventures, the heroes and heroines have to learn how to trust each other and surpass themselves. It is a series where the children learn to bend the school’s strict rules to learn in a different way. The series encourages the right to be different, to show that the academic education system does not suit everyone and that there are lots of ways of succeeding in life. That is what attracted us in particular about Nicolas Bary’s project.”

Bary said: “I imagined the universe of the series over 15 years ago, delving into my memories as the dunce at the back of the class, having experienced life in a boarding school. Our ambition with the artistic team—Justine Cunha, the graphic author; Cyril Deydier, the co-writer; and Max Maléo, the director—is to plunge children into a retro-modern world, as realistic as it is spectacular with its sets. And at its heart is an investigation which will take them into the bowels of the school. No superpowers in our story, just the power of the imagination and everyone’s individual talents, which remain their greatest strength.”

The series will be presented at Cartoon Forum on September 23.