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Xilam (also known as Xilam Animation) is a French animation studio which specializes in making animated television series and feature films. Marc du Pontavice and his wife Alix founded it in 1999 as a replacement for the animation division of Gaumont Multimédia, which was itself an offshoot of the company's television division Gaumont Télévision, a company he co-founded in 1990.[2]Gaumont continued to have a deal with Xilam until 2003. Gaumont Multimédia was a video game publisher until closing in 2004.
History
The origin of Xilam is closely linked to Gaumont's television production activity, launched in the early 1990s. From 1990, Marc du Pontavice joined the Gaumont group to develop a television production activity and co-founded Gaumont Télévision.[2] From 1994 to 1998, certain cartoons such as Space Goofs and Oggy and the Cockroaches met with international success, and it was only in 1999 that the Xilam company bought current productions from Gaumont, including Oggy, and also partnered with German trader Igel Media for the assets of Gaumont Multimedia.[3]
In 2003, the company released its first animated feature film, the CGI-based Kaena: The Prophecy[8] in 2005 they announced an animated film based on The New Adventures of Lucky Luke.[9] Xilam bought the Armada animation studio at Vietnam in 2008.
Xilam announces the production of seasons 5, 6 and 7 of Oggy and the Cockroaches using 4K.[14] A new studio was opened in Angoulême in order to repatriate production to France in addition to that of Villeurbanne.[15]
In 2019, it was announced that Xilam would acquire 50.1% of French CG studio Cube Creative.[16] The deal was finalized on 20 January 2020.[17][18]
