Big Company
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- Founded
- 2001
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About Big Company
Big Company is a French audiovisual production and animation studio founded in Lyon in September 2001. Its work spans commercial films, animated entertainment, broadcast graphics and digital content, combining creative development with animation, live-action production and post-production.
The studio works across television, advertising and digital entertainment. Its markets include broadcasters, streaming platforms, advertising agencies, corporate brands, children’s entertainment, cultural institutions and educational media. Its production capabilities cover both character-led animation and graphic storytelling, with work ranging from promotional trailers and opening titles to educational programmes and branded campaigns.
Creative development and production
Big Company supports projects from writing and visual development through final delivery. Pre-production services include scriptwriting, storyboarding, character design and concept art. Animation production encompasses 2D animation, 3D character animation, asset modelling, texturing, rigging, lighting and rendering. Motion design and real-time CGI extend these capabilities into broadcast presentation, advertising and interactive work.
Live-action services include green screen filming, multi-camera recording, interviews and reporting. Motion capture supports character performance, while editing, visual effects compositing, colour grading and audio synchronisation complete the production offering. The studio also develops augmented and virtual reality content, 360° video, projection mapping and interfaces for interactive 3D applications.
Work and organisation
The company’s commercial and corporate work is organised through Big Company Brand, while Big Company Anim focuses on 2D and 3D animation, character work and CGI for animation producers. A related television production business develops documentaries and original programming, complementing the studio’s animation and commissioned production activities.
Reported projects include Hello Kitty Super Style !, promotional trailers for Miraculous Ladybug à New York, and the Little Drop Stories sustainability campaign for Accor and Artefact 3000. Its broader output includes broadcast branding, title sequences and documentary graphics. These projects reflect a practice that combines entertainment production with communication work for brands and broadcasters.
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Founders and leadership
Founded by Stéphane Dalbec and Jean-Philippe Pollien, the company identifies Dalbec as Strategic Development Director and Pollien as Chief Technical Officer. The reported leadership team also includes Bénédicte Peyrusse, 3D Division Director, and Marion Bihry, Motion Division Director.
Production infrastructure and working model
The studio reports 70 artist workstations, an internal CPU/GPU renderfarm of 50 servers and 600 TB of centralised storage. Its production environment includes Maya, Blender, Unreal Engine, Toon Boom Harmony and Adobe Animate, with Xsens and Vicon motion capture pipelines. A permanent core team scales with specialised freelance artists, technical supervisors and directors.
Production methods and recognition
Mr. Carton was rendered in real time using Unity for France Télévisions / Studio 4. The series is identified in the research as a Unity Award winner for Best Cinematic Experience; the recognition belongs to the production.
Educational collaboration
La musique classique, c'est magique ! is a 20-episode educational animated series made with Big Company Prod for France Télévisions, Lumni and Radio France, with Pierrick Servais participating as co-director.
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Where Big Company is based
- Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Lyon offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 22 Rue Chinard, 69009 Lyon, France Email: contact@bigcompany.fr Phone: +33 (0)4 37 65 07 95 Opened: 2017 Headquarters and main production studio in Vaise, operating at these premises since October 1, 2017. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 90 Rue Boileau, 69006 Lyon Opened: 2006 Closed: 2017 Former production premises before relocation to Rue Chinard.
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