Fantome

Fantome was an Animation studio that produced CGI animations, including one of the first CGI shows, Insektors.

History
In 1985 Fantome was created by Georges Lacroix and his two colleagues, Renato and Jean-Yves Grall (And later, Philippe Baudard). They began starting on their works on advertisements, graphic designs, logos and more, a year later.

In 1987 and 1988, Fantome released their first home films, Sio Benbor, a parody tribute inspired by the film, Bio Sensor created by Takashi Fukumoto. The film's sequel, Sio Benbor 2, is a parody of John Lasseter's Luxo Jr.

In the same year, Fantome created a pilot which led to their first animated series, based on La Fontaine's Fables, Les Fables Géométriques (Geometric fables), the pilot was called The Raven and The Fox which the updated version would later be featured in the series. Two years later, the series was broadcast on Canal + and France 3. There are five seasons and each of them has its own theme, the first season involves around Geometry, the second season was about colours, the third season was about numbers, the fourth season was about opposite and the fifth and final season was about music. The Songs and the narration were voiced by Pierre Perret. The show ran from 1990 to 1992.

In 1992, Fantome began working on a pilot of Insektors, in a style of a behind the scenes video. A year later, the show went into production and aired on television a year later with two seasons of 10-minute episodes. In 1996 A Christmas special was created, titled No Presents for Khristmas.

In 1997, Fantome created an educational animated series called Tous sur orbit which is directed by Nicolas Gessner. The show features 50, two minutes shorts about the solar system.

On the same year, Fantome created two shorts for a planned show called Mordillo's giraffes, directed by José Xavier.

But in 1998, Fantome was facing bankruptcy but a Belgian studio, Neurones brought the studio and asked Georges Lacroix to continues with his works with Mordillo's giraffes and an Insektors film. But Georges denies it and the team went separate ways, leaving Fantome to close down, a year later.

Other works
In 1999, before they've shut down, Fantome has also worked on another tv series along with Nelvana called Tales from the Cryptkeeper. However, they've only worked on the 3rd season of the series, which was titled New Tales of the Cryptkeeper at the time.

Trivia

 * It's unknown which year, Philippe Baudard joined.