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Launch of Linus & Boom, a new serie produced by Timoon Animation

The world of animation is undergoing a real revolution in terms of both technology and audience expectations.
The sector’s challenges have expanded and intensified considerably in recent years, and, as a producer of animated series, our priority is to offer our TV-channel partners and audiences top-quality series incorporating the latest technical advances. More specifically, we must be able to create a real “universe” around a proposed TV series, with the aim of promoting the emergence of new brands for young people.

The launch of our new series Linus & Boom is a good example of this approach in terms of both production and creativity. We wanted to combine our know-how in managing international co-productions with the creation of a complete world that could be adapted in various ways for a number of different media. Working hand-in-hand with our Korean partner studio and co-producer SAMG, we achieved extremely high-quality animation that meets the latest international 3D standards.

In addition to producing the series, we also considered the virtual world in which the characters are immersed. The public likes to identify with its heroes, so we drew on all our creative resources to develop the story of Linus & Boom for a wide range of different media, including a community-based virtual world where the public can explore the series and move around its sets via a 3D avatar, just as if they were characters. We are also considering a website, card games, video games for home consoles, DVDs, a line of clothing and more, for both French and international audiences. Timoon Animation plans to design new series and build its future according to this philosophy.

Christophe Thoral,
CEO of Timoon Animation

An oddball duo is getting ready to join France 3’s line-up of animated heroes! Linus & Boom explores the highly improbable relationship between an idealistic teen and a very gullible extra-terrestrial. The product of effective development efforts and a mutually enriching creative partnership between teams at Timoon Animation and TV channel France 3, this all-new futuristic cartoon series, produced entirely in 3D, is a fine example of the channel’s new cartoon co-production policy, initiated in 2006. This totally original series, which puts the accent on comedy, has a concept and graphic universe that will be developed simultaneously on France 3 and the toowam.fr website.

Produced by Timoon Animation and directed by Hervé Trouillet, this new series, which adopts certain science fiction conventions and themes, benefits from quality 3D animation that fully lives up to the demands of its subject matter and imaginary graphic universe. Our young human hero’s humour, intelligence, quick-wittedness and swift reactions are contrasted with Boom’s mischievousness, innocence and ingenuousness to give the series a particularly sweet, poetic charm. By twisting certain sci-fi conventions to fit the everyday lives of our heroes, who share a passionate interest in astronomy, Linus & Boom – whose theme song was composed and performed by singer-songwriter Renan Luce – treats viewers to 52 episodes packed with unexpected twists, performed at a breakneck pace by a truly captivating duo.

France 3 is taking advantage of the Easter school holidays for the exclusive launch of Linus & Boom during its daily “Toowam Vacances” cartoon feature, starting on Monday 6 April. The launch will be preceded by the creation of an Internet platform entirely devoted to the series on toowam.fr. Web-surfing fans of Linus & Boom can create their own personal community of friends in complete safety and enjoy their own space directly linked to the series.

We are extremely pleased to welcome Linus, Boom, Iris, Monroe, Taki and innumerable aliens to France 3’s cartoon line-up, and extend an extremely warm welcome to all. And we hope for a very long life (in Boom’s case, one well hidden from the forces of evil!) on France 3.

Julien Borde
Managing director in charge of children’s programming, France Télévisions

Synopsis

In 2020, it’s not a good time to be an alien on Earth. The SDC, a para-governmental organization whose evil ambition is to take control of the entire galaxy, hunts aliens down, locks them up and performs terrible experiments on them. Subjected to SDC propaganda, the general population lives in fear of being invaded by horrible creatures from outer space.

On the other hand, Linus thinks the SDC is wrong and that aliens can’t possibly be all bad – but what can you do when you’re only 12 years old?

That’s when Boom arrives on the scene, in a big explosion, to offer a ray of hope and, more importantly, a mission for Linus and his friends Taki, Iris and Monroe: they must save aliens from the SDC’s clutches. Thanks to a mysterious watch with special powers, Linus temporarily transforms Boom into a human being in order to protect him from the SDC. Boom tries to adapt to life on Earth and his new human appearance while attempting to thwart the SDC’s evil designs alongside Linus and his friends, whose common goal is to become the other aliens’ guardian angels and try to send as many of them as possible back home, safe and sound…

Technical information

Format: 52 X 12 min.
Genre: comedy/action
Technique: digital 3D
Co-produced by: Timoon Animation/SAMG/PMMP/IMBC/Canal J/France 3
Director: Hervé Trouillet
Co-director: Natalys Raut-Sieuzac
Scriptwriters: Hervé Trouillet, Aurélie Aime & Bruno Regeste
Music: Renan Luce and Cyril de Turkheim