Action Synthese

Action Synthese was a French Animation Studio and a Production Company founded in 1998 and folded in 2013. The studio created and produced feature films, TV ads, animated television series and short films.

They adapted a new version of classical stop-motion TV series created by Serge Danot The Magic Roundabout in 3D animation. The original series attained great success between 1964 and 1977 in France and the United Kingdom. The 3D feature film was distributed in 2005 in Europe and the United States in 2006. The Magic Roundabout new TV series in 3D animation, aimed at preschool children, has been broadcast since 2008 all over Europe (Nickelodeon, ZDF, M6 etc.).

The studio was working on a movie based on the popular novel The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and a sequel to the feature film The Magic Roundabout, neither of which were completed.

Films

• 2005 - The Magic Roundabout

Television series

• 2008 - The Magic Roundabout (52 x 11 min)
• 2010 - The Magic Roundabout season 2 (52 x 11 min)
• 2011 - City of Friends season 2 (26 x 11mn and 2 specials of 30mn each)

Short movies

• 1998 - Antebios
• 1999 - Premier domicile connu