Method Animation (formerly Method Films) (sometimes called Method Animation Studios or Norman Studios and also known as ON Animation Studios or ON Kids & Family or Mediawan Animation or Mediawan Kids & Family) is a French company which produces CGI and 2D animated shows. It came together in 2014 as the culmination of a merger of Dimitri Rassam's Chapter 2 and Alexis Vonarb's Onyx Films.[1][2][3] Method Animation is the parent company of media conglomerate Mediawan. Paris-based ON Entertainment, headed by Rassam, is one of its divisions.[4] In 2018, Mediawan (which was founded by Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse and Pierre-Antoine Capton in 2015) hold 53.53% stake in Method Animation through its acquisition of ON Kids & Family and ON Entertainment, thus bringing it under the same ownership with Storia Television which was derived from the former French television division of Luc Besson's EuropaCorp.[citation needed]
Company type | animation studio |
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Industry | CGI |
Founded | 1999 |
Founder | Aton Soumache |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Aton Soumache (CEO) Dimitri Rassam (CCO) |
Parent | Mediawan Kids & Family (Mediawan) (2018—present; 53.53%) |
Divisions | ON Animation Studios ON Classics ON Entertainment ON Kids & Family |
Subsidiaries | Onyx Films Magical Society |
Aton Soumache is a producer of animated films. He is the CEO of Method Animation. Soumache is perhaps best known for The Little Prince, for which he, Rassam, Alexis Vonarb, and Mark Osborne won the 2016 César Award for Best Animated Film.[5]
See article Dimitri Rassam
She is the marketing manager of Method Animation.[6]
He was born in 1970, and is an alumnus of Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg.[7] Then he studied at the University of Leicester in the UK.[7] While working in production at La Fémis in 1995, he got to know Soumache.[7] He founded Onyx Films, which went on to produce 15 films, including Renaissance (2006) which won an award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.[7]
Via producer Tapaas Chakravarti:
Via producer Jeremy Zag:
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Ben 10 creator Man of Action conceived the 39x30mins show, with Zagtoon, Method Animation and eOne Family attached as coproducers.