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Digital Banana Studio

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2005
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About Digital Banana Studio

Digital Banana Studio is a French animation and visual-effects production company working across high-end 3D CGI animation, game cinematics, television, film, advertising and original content. Established in 2005, the studio develops characters, environments and visual worlds for both established properties and new productions.

Its work spans the production pipeline from visual development, character design and look development through modelling, rigging, lighting, shading and rendering. The studio also creates game trailers and cinematics, animated commercials, series pilots and teasers, and hybrid projects combining live action with animation.

Screen, games and branded work

Digital Banana Studio has contributed cinematic and character work for Supercell titles including Clash of Clans and Brawl Stars. Its television and IP-development work includes 3D CGI development, animation tests or visual translation for projects and properties such as The Smurfs, Idéfix et les Irréductibles, Rabbids Invasion, Maya the Bee, Heidi, Zou, Gribouille, Zorro: The Chronicles and Little Vampire.

The studio also develops and produces original animated shorts. Its credited films include Battle Plan, Luz, Captain Fish, Ze Tourist, Orange ô désespoir and Wild Side.

Capabilities

  • 3D CGI animation and digital visual effects
  • Character design, modelling and look development
  • Video-game cinematics, trailers and character assets
  • Animated series, pilots and teaser production
  • Commercial and branded-animation production
  • Visual adaptation of narrative worlds and 2D properties into 3D environments
  • 2D animation, motion design and hybrid live-action/animation work

Digital Banana Studio operates as an active production label within the Studio TF1 portfolio following its late-2023 acquisition by Blue Spirit.

More about Digital Banana Studio

Leadership and corporate history

  • Charles Beirnaert, known professionally as John Banana, founded the studio with 3D character artist Anders Ehrenborg. Beirnaert served as the company's gérant from March 2010 to August 2024.
  • Blue Spirit became president of DIGITAL BANANA STUDIO SAS on 11 December 2023 after acquiring the studio. Beirnaert subsequently shifted his executive focus to Brain Comet, an independent animation and IP-development company in which Studio TF1 holds a minority stake.

Production approach

The studio's reported production toolkit includes pre-visualization, modelling, rigging, lighting, shading and rendering using Redshift, Maya and 3ds Max. Its project work includes translating established 2D properties into three-dimensional CGI environments.

Recognition

Captain Fish (2014), an original short directed by John Banana and Digital Banana Studio, is described as a multiple international animation-festival award winner.

Notable credits

15 credits
  • Clash of Clans
  • Brawl Stars
  • The Smurfs
  • Idéfix et les Irréductibles
  • Rabbids Invasion
  • Maya the Bee
  • Heidi
  • Zou
  • Gribouille
  • Zorro: The Chronicles
  • Little Vampire
  • Battle Plan
  • Luz
  • Captain Fish
  • Orange ô désespoir

Offices

Where Digital Banana Studio is based

2 locations

  • Paris offices

    Headquarters
    Paris, Île-de-France, France
    About this office

    **Digital Banana Studio Headquarters** Status: active Headquarters Address: 123 Boulevard de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France Official registered head office; co-located within the Blue Spirit and Studio TF1 headquarters complex. --- **Digital Banana Studio Production Office** Status: active Address: 123 Avenue Philippe-Auguste, 75011 Paris, France Active secondary Parisian production office supporting ongoing creative projects. --- **Digital Banana Studio Historical Production Studio** Status: inactive / historical Address: 13 Passage Saint-Sébastien, 75011 Paris, France Closed: 2024 Historical production studio operated from 2010 until its April 2024 closure and transfer.

  • Digital Banana Studio Angoulême

    18 Boulevard de la République, 16000 Angoulême, FranceAngoulême, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

    Co-operated production hub integrated into Blue Spirit's Angoulême animation studio.

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