History of French Animation 

This taught me more about animation than school ever did.

I still watch Oggy and the Cockroaches. It's a fun and expressive cartoon, I love it, it's a childhood staple.

Hey Anton ! As a French person, it's great to see French animation enhanced ! Thanks for this well written video (your french accent est parfait btw bravo)

Bonjour, as a French fan of animation I am impressed by the huge amount of work you have done in this video ! And this is really fun to see a foreign point of view about our children cartoons ^^ I will just add some more productions that were really famous for us during the 2000' or some more informations : - studio Ankama is really popular in France, especially for "anime" fans : Wakfu & Dofus are the best franchise I think, there is also a movie for Dofus which is incredible and Mutafukaz which is a coproduction with the japanese studio 4°C. - there were a lot of Football cartoons which is normal because of the popularity of this sport in our country : Foot 2 Rue is kinda cool but the most epic of all is probably Galactik Football (it finish on a cliffhanger) - Code Lyoko is probably the most famous of the series for our generation... - Baskup, Barbapapa, Tchoupi (for the little kids), Monsieur Madame, Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or (franco-japanese), Les Lapins Crétins : Invasion, etc... - last thing, we are really influenced nowadays by US and japanese animations : the fact is that we have discovered these style 10 years before US truly discover anime and 10 years before Japan discover american modern cartoons (nickelodeon and CN for example). So our production are maybe the result of this mixup of influence due to the fact we were exposed quicker than the others.

I don’t care what anyone thinks, OGGY AND THE COCKROACHES IS A FUCKING MASTERPIECE!

Code Lyoko was such a great kids show. One of the best there is. I hope France can make more animation of that quality in the future, if not better!

That's crazy, I didn't know so many cartoons that I watched in my childhood were from France, I always thought they were from America when I was little. Can you some day make a video about German animation?

If I had to guess which shows gained the most international success being aired in over 100 countries worldwide, Totally Spies really started a renaissance in its respective genre. But i believe that Miraculous got the most success out of most or all French Animated shows. It recently nabbed a Kids Choice And Teen Choice award for Overall Animated show.

Wait, Totally Spies was French? Woah...

Oh boy, so many favourites here! Asterix, Tintin, Lucky Luke, Walter Melon, Dragon Hunters, Hero 108, Corneil and Bernie, W.I.T.C.H., The Smurfs, Mune: Guardian of the Moon and Once Upon A Time... *Insert theme here*!

As for now, French animated films are now even more creative than ever, even with the cooperation with other countries such as Flee, Calamity Jane A Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary, My Father's Secret, Where Is Anne Frank, Unicorn War, and Le Petit Nicolas!

Blue Eye Samurai, Super Mario Bros, Migration, Mars Express, TMNT, etc... 2023 was a great year for French animation. 2024 will be good too (Wakfu Season 4, Dreamland, Despicable Me 4, and many more projects).

You're so close to 1mil bro! I found out a few yrs ago that Oggy was French! I grew up with more Canadian animation tho!

Now we can add the wonderful show "Arcane" to this list. Fortiche is the new French gem.

This was great! Thank you so much.

The History of Japanese Animation video will be 15 hours long

I loved the editing in this video and the gags. I liked how he briefly discussed the CGI animations even though that's not 2D animation-related, props.

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I'm French And I think it's a good thing to talk about the cartoons of my country because we also revolutionize animation in general

oh lord this video made me feel so nostalgic i watched almost all of these cartoons as a kid and have pretty much all Asterix and Obélix movies but as a kid i never really looked deeply into cartoons it was just something to pass the time. thank you for this masterpiece

Quand j'étais petit je pensais que si le personnage parlait français, le dessin-animé était automatiquement français mdr When I was a child I used to think all the cartoons I watched were french because they spoke french

I was going to watch a movie, but goddamn thank you so much for this timing

Me : Sees space goofs zig and sharko and oggy Also Me : *I NEED TO CLICK*

This is so thorough, detailed and engaging, thanks for creating this!

Heeey man thanks you so much to talk about the french animation ! By the way you explain very well how did the animation in my country was created ty ! I learn more about it lol

Great Video. Looking forward To More Of Your Work!

as a french person, your accent is *parfait*

I think France be the third best country to make animation only behind Japan/and USA.

I'm creating a cartoon. It's called, Forgotten Tales! It's about these forgotten and obscure characters that no one remembers from media going on wacky and crazy adventures.

Aw yes, I remember Totally Spies, Oggy and Code Lyoko

I love France! Especially since it made marvelous foods like baguettes and fromage It's art And it's Anthem

This was fun to watch!

Oggy and the cockroaches is popular in india and all these yrs I thought it was Japanese because most animation shows on TV were Japanese.

Glad to see the Antoons drama is over, i think, i havent been keeping up with anything

History of Spanish

This whole 1 hr 20+ Documentary of french animation is good hard work to list & researched & edit ya did! good job and i had enjoyed to watch, i knew some of my childhood cartoons are familiar and some you mentioned came back to me nostalgic mostly 2000s-2010s animation Like i never knew the french made Oggy & the cockroaches and of course linked to Zig & Shark, i knew my fave highschool graphic book had the adaptation of Persepolis, yet things like Totally spies (not my kind but watched it as a kid when bored & still lived in southeast asia/philippines we got cartoon network, disney & nikelodeon to watch international cartoons in original English) and best cartoon i had watched currently is the Miraculous Ladybug stuff, then Music vid like Stromae's carmen and this talents made in france & international is i wished & hoped to grow better in the future

This is some fun content.

Look at this pure passion documentary.

Thx for making this amazing video watched even years later 🙏

based.

Antoons saying Schtroumpf is the best thing ever omg I'm french and I grew up on so many of these shows this video makes me so nostalgic

finally something im looking for !

I like your art! looks like old nostalgic newgrounds cartoons!

Growing up in Cambodia I must say I recognise a lot of anime in this video. Most of them aired on our national TV channel.To us kid from 90s to early 2000s these are our best childhood animations that came from France. -Tin Tin -Spirou -Count de champignae -Lucky Luke -Enigma -The little witches 1994 -Dr Globule and Horrifido - Patrol -Garage kid -Kassai and Luke - Totally spies - Kangoo -Rahman -Chris Colorado - Papa Pere -Scheherazade Sadly they stopped aired these shows in 2014 and started to aired Chinese cartoons in stead.

This was fascinating to watch! If you think about doing this for other nations I'll be looking forward to it

And to think some of the most memorable cartoons throughout history were made by the French...for if it wasn't for them we would've never had half the shows mentioned in this video, like The Smurfs, The Adventures of Tintin, Totally Spies, etc.

All of that are quite popular in Cambodia too since we're a former France colony this brings back memories!

Still watching The Adventures of Tintin and it’s been a great fun cartoon. Please do History of Finnish Animation

That was pretty epic. Amazingly, some of the few French things I have seen on British TV or seen in book form didn't pop up (or I blinked and missed them, or they are not as French as I thought). One was Barbapapa, a shape-shifting pink blob who appears to be named after the French for candy floss. Another is something called "Robo Story" with a girl, a dog, lots of bell-shaped robots and a villain called the White Wriggler, who was always being told by his boss, a disembodied deep voice called the Revered Reverence, to "never forget that he was the LOWEST OF THE LOW".

I would love to see a Jet Set Radio animated series, something similar to Wheel Squad but with the aesthetic of JSR and a more complex narrative.

Video idea: History of Korean Animation

I really enjoy these kinds of videos, i listen to your videos while playing or drawing and your voice and pronunciation of French words are relaxing :D

PeePooDo: You forgot us. Anton: Oh goddamni-

france made the best cartoons no cap

Finally i heard someone is talking about jean-yves raimbaud

It looks France is keeping this whole Medium alive, along with Canada.

I really hope that when Jean-Paul Walravens (a.k.a. Picha) celebrates his 80th anniversary next year he would remaster Zoo Olympics (1992) and Zoo Cup (1994), I only saw the first 26 shorts from both of them and there are 104 in total (52 each).

Awesome

What about British Animation with things like Danger Mouse, Wallace and Gromit and Thomas the Tank Engine?

I think it's criminal that this doesn't have many views. This is a good watch! I sat through the whole thing without a bathroom break lol.

Actually my favorite show is French. It's The Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.

Foreign animation is better than American animation. It doesn't take a genius to see that

43:08 one of the most underrated shows ever

Totally spies, BaTAoB and OaTC was my childhood when I was a kid.

Wow thank God for French animation

Bien le bonjour de la France.

21:42 *War flashbacks intensify*

Listen here you! How dare you ignore Galactic Football?!?! IT'S A MASTERPIECE! Good video overall. I love it.

Bobbypills and Fortiche are great recent studios.

I appreciate the inclusion of Corneil and Bernie

I think your narration comes across a bit monotone and you edit your recordings too close together, it would really benefit if you let your previous statement breathe for a moment before carrying on to your next point. I also think providing examples of the media referenced by pausing and letting a few seconds play would assist engagement, though that likely is a tougher ask due to copyright concerns. Also I noticed you stopped referring to works by their localized titles around halfway through, why is that? Those issues aside, I quite enjoyed this production and hope to see more in a similar vein in the future, RU-vid could always use more long-form edited content.

Oggy and the cockroaches became successful in India

Thank you French For making Shawn the sheep Gave me happy memories!

Insektors! Im so glad you mentioned this one, I have been thinking of this recently but had no memory of the name. Excellent video, very informative!

29:04 only in the US maybe. This scene is included in the french version i watched ON RU-vid months ago.

Don't know if it has been adressed in the comments, but the french have been heavily influencend by japanese animation ever since the late 70's when the cartoon "Grendizer" has been brought to the national television under the title "Goldorak". It was the open door for all the japanmania that took over the country.

Hahaha une vidéo extraordinaire avec un artiste incroyable mon cher

1:05:40 Having marathoned all 7 original Oggy seasons back in the quarantine (as the first 2 were childhood deep cuts and I was interested in a revisit / catch-up), I recall that various credits stated that Olivier Jean-Marie was still heavily involved in writing and directing for one more season, up until the 5th which was basically an extension of what the movie showed (anthology stories set in different time periods). Then strangely the 6th one was entirely comprised of remakes of S1-2 episodes (compared to the HD remasters of S3 which were still labeled as such) with the 7th being almost the same thing, except that it did have some 20ish back to basics new episodes. And while he didn't direct them, Jean-Marie did write a few of these making them their last contributions to the show before his retirement. I think those last 3 seasons originally came out during 2017-18. Speaking of, while the show was still being a long runner, it took many hiatuses. S1-2 came out between 1998-2000 (or 03 depending on other sources), S3 in 2007-8 I think, S4 in 2012-13 and the aforementioned S5-7 during 2017-18. And recently, there were a couple of new related Oggy series released afterwards. A cockroach-free preschool CGI spinoff and a "next gen" relaunch of the original formula with a new artstyle and characters back in last year, both clearly aimed at younger audiences. The latter change being already a precedent set by season 5 as the first 4 did have quite a few "not apt for kids" moments (gags, storylines, character designs, background elements, etc) that had to he censored in some foreign airings, including the portrait controversy from S4. The HD remasters/remakes of the early seasons also have quite a bit of censorship to mitigate that too. And another aspect of Oggy that really caught my attention was the soundtrack of the first 4 seasons, mostly made by musician Hughes Le Bars. It's wild, varied and memorable in many aspects.

Pretty legit

I tell you what, that weird cartoon that I liked, couldn't figured out what it was, turns out it was french.

I'd like to add : - Foot 2 Rue - Les Ratz - Galactik Football Apparently The Ratz received an English dub that's on RU-vid.

do you remember a cartoon about a prince &princess and a demon that cant touch water? The demons use seeds to absorb water so they can cross paths and they want to invade the crystal castle.

My name is Anton too! Edit: and I’m french haha

I would love to see a history of italian animation

As a french I find your accent very funny ^_^

History of Brazilian Animation and Comics, Please, Antoons!!

History of Korean Animation

OHH YEAAAA THAT'S MY COUNTRY

I'm not gonna lie this was an interesting video. For some reason the narration really feels strange to me. Though I enjoyed it a lot.

Oui! C’est génial!!

Wait... if marc du pontavice left gaumont. Then how other staff and music composers are in the end credits of the Xilam's cartoon?

I know that Oggy is very controversial, but I kinda have a soft spot for it.

Oui oui baguette boujour bonsoir Thank you so much for saying that we have a great country because I'm French 😊👍🏻🙏🏻♥️

I didn't watch this video very carefully. I watched it in accelerated mode. There were cartoons in it: Les grandes Grandes Vacances, Lascars, Un monstre à Paris, Yakari, Galactik Football? The author is well done. Pretty thorough work. This is a very long list.

I think you forgot to mention the production company EuropaCorp with the Arthur and the Minimoys films, A Monster in Paris and The Boy with a Clock heart.

I remember when Nickelodeon aired Oggy and the Cockroaches in the mid-2010s. It was like Tom and Jerry if it was balanced, as I quickly noticed a pattern: if Oggy went too far in his revenge, the Cockroaches would get the last laugh, but if the Cockroaches got too sadistic in their torment, Oggy would come out on top. Meanwhile, in Tom and Jerry, Jerry came out on top 99% of the time, and the shorts acted like he was the hero, even though most of the time, Tom was either provoked by Jerry, or he was forced by his owner to get rid of him, usually by smacking him with a broom. I also remember when Totally Spies and Code Lyoko aired on Cartoon Network in the 2000s. I'm ambivelent towards Totally Spies, but I can't stand Code Lyoko. The character designs are horrible (you could land a plane on those foreheads), the English dub was wildly inconsistent, and Cartoon Network played it way too much. And don't get me started on Code Lyoko: Evolution. Whoever thought it was a good idea to make the real-world scenes live-action deserves to be fired. Those character designs were bad enough in animation, but then you put them in live-action, and the Uncanny Valley starts crying for a mercy kill. My very first exposure to Wakfu was via Zone's porn parody. That is all.

Best boy Antoons, all my homies love Antoons Anton after reviewing French Animations: Antoine

Can you do British animation next?

Man the best cartoon channel to watch in France is gulie

J'aime bien .🇫🇷