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Joyeux 15e Anniversaire, TeamTO! With several new top-notch series in the pipeline, the acclaimed French animation studio celebrates 15 years in the business.
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rench studio TeamTO has been behind so many fantastic animated projects in recent memory that it’s hard to believe it’s only celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Since it was founded by Guillaume Hellouin, Corinne Kouper and Caroline Souris in 2005, the creative studio has been behind numerous award-winning shows including Angelo Rules, Presto! School of Magic, My Knight and Me, Oscar’s Oasis and the acclaimed feature Yellowbird. With studios located in Paris and Valence and offices in Beijing and Los Angeles, TeamTO currently hires over 400 employees. We were very pleased when Kouper and Hellouin answered a few of our questions on the occasion of their anniversary. “When we started this com- Tiny Island pany in 2005, I remember www.animationmagazine.net
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thinking about all the obstacles and difficulties that would come our way,” says Hellouin. “Never could I have imagined that 15 years later we would have 400 employees, two studios, an office in L.A., another in Beijing, 20 series and one feature film to our credit!”
Just like many other studios around the world, TeamTO has had to deal with all the challenges and headaches of working around the restrictions created by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. “It has been a lot of work and a lot of stress for the top and middle management, as well as for the staff, but our teams have been great and managed to get all our work delivered perfectly on time,” says Kouper. “Everyone was very focused on how vital it was to make our studio work despite the very real challenges.”
Sizzling Slate Among the many shows the studio is currently working on is Jade Armor (26 x 26’), a beautifully designed series about a teenage girl superhero; the fifth season
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