{"id":10451,"date":"2016-07-15T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/teamto-brings-french-animation-to-the-world\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:15:53","slug":"teamto-brings-french-animation-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/teamto-brings-french-animation-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"TeamTO Brings French Animation to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV Kids<em> shines a spotlight on TeamTO, a French animation studio co-founded by Guillaume Hellouin and Corinne Kouper in 2005.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Guillaume Hellouin and Corinne Kouper set up TeamTO 11 years ago, the French CGI studio had a staff of around 30 people. The company now has more than 360 employees who work on approximately 300 half-hours of animated programming. The France-based outfit also has a field office in Los Angeles, as well as one that recently opened in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea behind the office in Beijing is that there are a lot of big companies in China that have mainly produced content for the domestic market,\u201d says Hellouin, who serves as TeamTO\u2019s president and CEO. \u201cThere are opportunities to work as a partner, either for service or co-production, with big media companies in China that have very big IPs only known in China at the moment but that can [travel] around the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The biggest IP to come out of TeamTO thus far has been\u00a0<em>Angelo Rules<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019ve produced three seasons and are ramping up for the fourth,\u201d says Hellouin. \u201cWe\u2019ve produced one mobile game [called A Busy Day]\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i8.cmail20.com\/ei\/r\/2E\/8F5\/F70\/003721\/csimport\/2016-07-15-angelo-rules_7.jpg\" alt=\"***Image***\" width=\"150\" height=\"245\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"8\" \/>that was really only on Android, and without any publicity or advertising we made 2.5 million downloads. So that really speaks to the depth of the brand.\u201d TeamTO launched a second\u00a0<em>Angelo Rules\u00a0<\/em>mobile game, Angelo Skate Away, earlier this week. The series, which is a co-pro with distributor CAKE, has been sold into more than 100 territories around the globe, including to Cartoon Network EMEA, Latin America and Asia, Netflix, Super RTL in Germany and France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Angelo Rules<\/em>\u00a0has been an exciting creative partnership between CAKE and TeamTO,\u201d says Tom van Waveren, CAKE\u2019s CEO and creative director. \u201cTeamTO created a very fresh and distinctive look for the property, and CAKE subsequently worked alongside TeamTO in refining the concept, putting together the writing team and finding the tone that makes\u00a0<em>Angelo Rules<\/em>\u00a0so unique&#8230;. It is the most satisfying co-production we have ever been part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another collaboration between TeamTO and CAKE is\u00a0<em>My Knight and Me<\/em>. \u201c<em>My Knight and Me<\/em>\u00a0was unveiled at MIPTV and has already received an amazing amount of interest,\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>says Ed Galton, CAKE\u2019s chief commercial officer and managing director. \u201cWe [expect] sales to be as strong\u2014if not stronger\u2014than\u00a0<em>Angelo Rules<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among TeamTO\u2019s other highlights is\u00a0<em>Oscar\u2019s Oasis<\/em>, a non-verbal slapstick comedy first produced in 2010. \u201cThis show was sold to Cartoon Network EMEA and Latin America, plus Disney Asia and Netflix,\u201d says Hellouin, who adds that the company is considering doing a spin-off of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming projects for TeamTO include\u00a0<em>Take It Easy Mike<\/em>, another dialogue-free show, which is currently in development. \u201c[Non-verbal is] something that we\u2019ve done in the past and people are still looking for that,\u201d says Kouper, the company\u2019s head of development and executive producer. \u201cWe also have now in development something that we\u2019ve not done before,\u201d she adds, mentioning the female-led action series\u00a0<em>Jade Armor<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s driven by a girl who has superpowers. It\u2019s really a \u2018girl power\u2019 show.\u201d TeamTO is also working on the second seasons of Activision Blizzard\u2019s\u00a0<em>Skylanders Academy<\/em>\u00a0and Entertainment One\u2019s\u00a0<em>PJ Masks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to TV series, Hellouin says that feature films are part of TeamTO\u2019s long-term goals. \u201cWe are considering a few projects and definitely want to have a feature film in production for the end of 2017,\u201d he says. \u201cAlso, we will increase the production of interactive games, mainly on the mobile [side], but for\u00a0<em>My Knight and Me<\/em>\u00a0we have a prototype for a console game in development. So we will definitely expand the interactive department because we feel we have strong brands that can benefit from being exposed on the interactive world.\u201d<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 23px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spotlight on the French animation studio co-founded by Guillaume Hellouin and Corinne Kouper in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":10452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[100,1523,1522,95],"class_list":["post-10451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-profiles","category-top-stories","tag-cake","tag-corinne-kouper","tag-guillaume-hellouin","tag-teamto","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TeamTO Brings French Animation to the World - 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