NORE

NORE is a French animation studio and production company developing original programming, comic book adaptations and international co-productions for children and family audiences. Based in Tourcoing, it works across 2D digital animation, 3D/CGI and hybrid productions that combine animated characters with live-action footage. Its activities encompass original creation, production services and the development and distribution of an established animation catalog.

The studio's history began in Lille in 2010, when Lahcen Bahij and Nicolas Haye founded Studio Redfrog. Its productions brought together French and Belgian creative teams and served broadcasters including France Télévisions and Canal+. That background continues to inform NORE's focus on European collaboration and internationally distributed children's programming.

Production and development

The studio's capabilities span concept art, character design, storyboarding and animatics through animation production and post-production. It also provides executive production and animation services for other studios, alongside work on its own intellectual property. Its development slate includes original television concepts and adaptations intended for European broadcasters and global streaming platforms.

The inherited Redfrog catalog includes La Vie en slip, a 52-part, 11-minute animated comedy adapted from Steve Baker's comic book for Canal+ Kids. Another established production, Mick le Mini Chef, combines live-action cooking sequences with CGI characters in 52 seven-minute episodes for France Télévisions, introducing young viewers to food and balanced eating. Reported development projects include Corgi, A Royal Family, presented at Cartoon Forum, and the original animated series Calypso Cruise.

A new operating chapter

Following the original Studio Redfrog legal entity's judicial liquidation in July 2024, Grégoire Parcollet acquired its assets, production heritage and intellectual property catalog through Solent. The business continued under the legal operating entity NORE, retaining Studio Redfrog as a registered trade name. It publicly relaunched under the NORE brand in June 2025, combining development of the inherited catalog with new creations and international co-productions.