INTHEBOX
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2011
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About INTHEBOX
INTHEBOX is an independent French animation, visual effects and pipeline engineering studio founded in 2011. Based in the Annecy animation cluster, it combines CG production with technical development for feature films, television, advertising, documentaries and institutional productions. Its work spans fully digital animation and hybrid projects that bring computer-generated imagery together with stop-motion or live action.
The studio provides animation production alongside lighting, compositing, look development, shading, texturing and character rigging. Technical direction and production supervision complement these artistic capabilities. Its approach connects image-making with the software infrastructure needed to manage assets, rendering and exchanges between production partners, making pipeline engineering a central part of its production activity.
Animation and hybrid production
On Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021), INTHEBOX contributed CG animation and pipeline architecture, connecting stop-motion shooting in Prague with digital animation work in France. The project illustrates its role in coordinating technical workflows across international productions while contributing to the finished imagery.
For The Inventor, also known as Léo: La Fabuleuse Histoire de Léonard de Vinci (2023), the studio worked with Foliascope on visual effects, CG animation and the production pipeline. It also contributed animation and post-production to Ordures ! (2025), a stop-motion and digital hybrid film broadcast by ARTE France.
Its television work includes Weird Waters, Team Nuggets, La Vie en Slip and Mick MiniChef. Commercial projects include work for Michelin, Red Bull, Vinci and Vinamilk, extending the studio’s animation and visual effects practice across different formats and audiences.
Independent technical partner
In June 2024, Ankama acquired a minority equity stake in INTHEBOX through a strategic partnership focused on 3D animation pipelines and workflows across international teams. INTHEBOX retained its operational autonomy and independent client service model, continuing to work for external productions alongside this collaboration.
More about INTHEBOX
Founders and leadership
- Technical directors Madjid Chamekh and Mathieu Marin founded the studio and continue to lead it following the 2024 investment.
- Corporate management records identify CHAMEKH, represented by Madjid Chamekh, as président, and GOLDENTV, represented by Mathieu Marin, as directeur général.
Production infrastructure and operating model
- A permanent internal R&D team develops proprietary workflows connecting Maya with open-source applications such as Blender and enabling data exchange between international production partners.
- The studio reports 400 m² of production space, 45 workstations, high-speed networking and an in-house CPU/GPU render farm.
- Its operating model combines a permanent core of developers and department leads with project-based intermittent artists and technicians, expanding production capacity according to active projects.
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Where INTHEBOX is based
- Parc d'Activités les Verts Prés, 8 bis Route des Creuses, Bâtiment 2, Cran-Gevrier, 74960 Annecy, FranceAnnecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Annecy office
HeadquartersAbout this office
Single operational office and overall corporate headquarters, housing animation production, executive leadership, technical R&D and pipeline engineering.
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