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Two of the latest series on Cyber Group Studios\u2019 slate take inspiration from the video game world: Alex Player\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Press Start!\u00a0<\/em>The former is about an esports team, while the latter features epic adventures inside a video game.<\/p>\n

Alex Player<\/em>\u00a0was originally developed by Pierre Bela\u00efsch, chief creative officer of Cyber Group Studios, before he joined the company. \u201cWe really fell in love with the concept of a series being one of the first to take place in the world of esports,\u201d says Rapha\u00eblle Mathieu, chief operating officer. \u201cI discovered this world of true competition, teamwork and real fun! Hence in this show, we are teamed up as well with Webedia, a worldwide leader in this field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cyber Group Studios has aligned with two key European pubcasters for\u00a0Alex Player\u00a0<\/em>in France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions and Rai. \u201cThis is a guarantee that we will stick to a fun and appealing show that will have embedded in it true values appealing to kids,\u201d Mathieu says. \u201cWe are also proudly co-producing the series with our partners of Graphilm Entertainment and the amazing Anna Lucia Pisanelli and Maurizio Forestieri, who are both incredible professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team put a great deal of effort into the graphic style of the series and ultimately decided to adopt one style for each world. The real world, the world of kids\u2019 daily life at school, is in 2D, while the world of video games, \u201cWorld of Titans,\u201d shifts into CGI. \u201cWe believe this really works in terms of energy and narration and are extremely proud of the final results,\u201d Mathieu says. The series will be fully delivered this year.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0Press Start!<\/em>, Ira Singerman, head of development in Cyber Group Studios\u2019 L.A. office, introduced the company to the best-selling book series written and illustrated by Thomas Flintham that has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. It turns out the author is represented by the same agent as Jonny Duddle, who penned the\u00a0Gigantosaurus\u00a0<\/em>book that Cyber Group Studios adapted to much success. \u201cGetting to know Thomas Flintham was an amazing discovery, as we realized that he had written the book to make kids want to read in addition to watching screens,\u201d Mathieu says. \u201cWe also loved that he got inspired by a young kid living in his neighborhood who happened to have Indian origins, as we believe it adds to the uniqueness of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cyber Group Studios teamed up with Peacock in the U.S. on the project. \u201cThe whole team there has been equally demanding and supportive from the start, and we believe the results are very exciting,\u201d says Mathieu. \u201cWe aimed to produce a best-in-class show and are proud to have already presold it to Warner Bros. Discovery Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Determining the visual style for\u00a0Press Start!\u00a0<\/em>came easily to the team, Mathieu notes. \u201cWe wanted to stick to the original visual, which has a Minecraft-like flavor with a bit of an \u201980s look that we are particularly fond of. The challenge was to make it a bit brighter and glossier, and we used CGI for this purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Press Start!<\/em>\u00a0follows the adventures of Sunny and Rue, a brother and sister who are fans of a video game and discover one day that, thanks to their controller, they can actually jump into their favorite video game and help their hero, Super Rabbit Boy. \u201cOur aim ultimately would be to develop a video game adapted from their stories and simultaneously have books adapted directly from the TV series episodes,\u201d Mathieu says.<\/p>\n

Cyber Group Studios has the same ambition for\u00a0Alex Player<\/em>. \u201cSo, let\u2019s keep our fingers crossed\u2014but most of all, let\u2019s keep on working hard and be innovative and creative both in terms of storytelling and business,\u201d says Mathieu. \u201cTimes are challenging; we need to be up to the task.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company sees many synergies between animated series and video games, including technological breakthroughs. \u201cWe believe both industries and universes have many points of convergence,\u201d Mathieu says. \u201cWhen we launched\u00a0Gigantosaurus<\/em>, one of our dreams, if this was to be a success, was to create video games adapted from the show. This is how the adventure began. We hired Disney Interactive alum Thierry Braille to run a unit that would focus on developing our brands in the video game industry. Thierry had been close to our chairman and CEO, Dominique Bourse, when they were together at Disney, as Dominique was in charge of video games at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

About half a million copies of the\u00a0Gigantosaurus<\/em>\u00a0console games have now been sold. \u201cWhen we started our discussions on\u00a0Gigantosaurus<\/em>\u00a0with a number of partners, we realized that real-time animation software could impact animation and that the animation pipe could, in turn, impact the video game pipe,\u201d Mathieu says. \u201cThis is how we started working on creating assets in our series that can be used in a video game project and working as well to master the real-time animation technique. Now, our R&D division has put together a unique and one of the biggest real-time and motion-capture studios in Roubaix in France with more than 40 cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mathieu also highlights the narrative convergence of the two fields. \u201cWhen we talk about content, what matters most is the storytelling,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is something we have been wanting to focus on, as video games are a big part of kids\u2019 daily lives and a means for us to reach them with truly appealing stories. Hence, two of our most recent productions take place in the world of video games, both with very different approaches to their targets and visual identities.\u00a0Alex Player<\/em>\u00a0is fueled with our real-time animation pipe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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