Le Train
- Studio
- TF1, Dupuis Audiovisuel, Ciné-Groupe, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone.
In Collaboration With: Astral Communications Inc., Le Canal Famille, The Family Channel, Radio-Québec, Baton Broadcasting Incorporated, Canal J, Semic, D'Ocon Films Production, Antena 3 Televisión.
With the Financial Participation Of: Centre National de la Cinématographie, Téléfilm Canada, Société Générale des Industries Culturelles du Québec, Société de - Animation studio
- Studio Arathos, Animation Enterprises, Studio Pacific Rim, Studio Interpannonia.
Animation and Execution: Studio Pixibox
Characters
Spirou, Fantasio, Comte de Champignac, Cyanure, Seccotine, Spip, Catenaire, Frank, Vito Cortizone, Kaloo-Long, Igor Raspoutnikoff, Dupilon, Von Schnabble, Basile de Koch, Duplumier, John Helena, Le maire de Champignac, Yersèle, Alim, Vouh-Vla Ravih
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Michel Gauthier, Pino van Lamsweerde, Michel Lemire
Producing
- Producer
- Léon Pérahia
- Co-Executive Producers
- Jacques Pettigrew, André A. Bélanger
- Directors of Production
- Marie-Pierre Journet, Louis Duquet
- Associate Producer
- Antoni D'Ocón
- Assistant Producer
- Dominique Mendel
- Second Assistant Producer
- Christine Côté
Writing
- Writer
- Pascal Lavoie, Marie-France Landry, François Boulay, Marie-Pili Arnes, Bernard Chiavelli, Catherine Cuenca, Raynald De Leo, Jacques Espagne, André Franquin, Patrick Galliano, Gilles Gonord, Michel Haillard, Janry, André Jean, Claude Jobin, Jean-Pierre Liccioni, Pascal Mirleau, Gale Noyer, Laurent Pawlotsky, Patrick Regnard, Laurent Rullier, Philippe Terrail, Tome, Pierre-Michel Tremblay
Animation
Voices
- Voice
- Vincent Ropion (Spirou), Patrick Guillemin (Fantasio), Pierre Baton (Comte de Champignac), Martine Meirhaeghe (Cyanure), Kelvine Dumour (Seccotine, Spip), Claude Nicot (Catenaire), Jean-Louis Faure (Frank [First Voice]), Mario Santini (Vito Cortizone, Kaloo-Long), Richard Darbois (Igor Raspoutnikoff [First Voice]), Gilbert Lévy (Dupilon, Von Schnabble, Basile de Koch, Duplumier), Philippe Peythieu (John Helena [First Voice]), Michel Modo (Le maire de Champignac [Principal Voice]), Claude Joseph (Le maire de Champignac [First Voice], Yersèle [First Voice]), Pierre Tessier (Alim, Vouh-Vla Ravih, Frank [Second Voice]), Igor De Savitch (Yersèle [Second Voice]), Michel Tugot-Doris (Caténaire [Second Voice]), Amélie Morin, Maël Davan-Soulas
Music
Editing
- Editor
- Suzanne Bouilly, Bernadette Cellier, Brigitte Pardon
- Assistant Editor
- Éric Chenot
- Picture Editor
- Suzanne Bouilly
Crew
- Creators
- André Franquin, Tome, Janry
- Based on the Original Characters by
- André Franquinrrail, Tome, Pierre-Michel Tremblay
- Storyboards
- Claude Allix, Gilles Dayez, Bruno Le Floc'h, Frédéric Dégranges
- Character Design
- Williams Le Metayer
- Layout Checker
- Claire Cantenot
- Layout Checking Assistants
- Françoise Gillot, Frank Miyet, Dominique Rimbert, Lionel Robé
- Background Supervisor
- Marisa Musy
- Backgrounds
- Marie Letullier, Marie-Pierre Lepeintre, Sabrina Lim, Nathalie Laude, Geneviève Chassaing
- Chief Background Artists
- Pierre Houde, Marie Letullier
- Background Artists
- Sophie Beck, Henri Chabal, Geneviève Chassaing, Alice Comtois, Marielle Guyot, Brenda Jones, Nathalie Laude, Marie-Pierre Lepeintre, Marie Letullier, Sabrina Lim, André Bibeur Lu, Guylaine Robidoux, Patrice Szewczyk, Matthieu Venant
- Assistant Background Layout Supervisors
- Marie Blanchard, Manon Hamel, Isabelle Leblanc, Julie Poupart
- Background Layout Artists
- Michel Carbonneau, Ghislain Cloutier, René Gratton, Roman Hlywa, Raymond Lebrun, Raymond Parent
- Posing Supervisor
- Belinda Oldford
- Assistant Posing Supervisor
- Mario Carmel
- Posing Artists
- Kevin Currie, Laurence Framarzi, Catherine Griffaton, Ron Lamarre, Wayne Lee Pack, Véronique Madelénat, Christophe Pouchot, Marielle Rabourdin, Nick Rijgersberg, Mireille Sarault, Rich Vanatte, Josette Zagar
- Posing Assistant
- Claire Cantenot
- Color Supervisor
- Marisa Musy
- Assistant Color Supervisor
- Myriam Rambach
- Color Modelers
- Joan Churchill, Joanne Touchette, Maria Alessandra Zanetti
- Additional Location Designers
- Patrick Claeys, Michel Coutable, Denis Grenier, Guy Lamoureux, Raymond Lebrun, Marie-Pierre Rochel, Jean-Pierre Urbain, Serge Valbert
- Storyboard Artists
- Claude Allix, Robert Browning, Gilles Dayez, Frédéric Dégranges, Véronique Denoyelle, Nadia Dicks, Christophe Huthwohl, Sang-Jin Kim, Tapani Knuutila, Jean Lajeunesse, Bruno Le Floc'h, Raymond Lebrun, Véronique Madelénat, Tom Nesbitt, Guy Quelquejeu, Paul Schibli, Ken Stephenson, Pino van Lamsweerde, Josette Zagar
- Storyboard Scanner
- Michel Lefèvre
- Storyboard Finalization
- Eric Berthier
- Storyboard Cleanup
- Daniel DeCelles, Denis Grenier, Canuck Creations
- Graphic Designers
- Marisa Musy, Guy Quelquejeu
- Prop and Mechanical Designers
- Pierre Jarry, Simon Labelle, Christian Sarrazin, Jean-César Suchorski
- Artistic Advisor
- Michel Lemire
- Animators
- Thierry Boutry, Ivo Ganchev, Sergey Gizila, Alexei Kazakov, Williams Le Métayer, Lajos Tóth
- Assistant Animator
- Dániel Keresztes
- Animation Directors
- Michel Gauthier (Season 1), Jacques Peyrache
- Animation Supervisors
- Edouard David, Gilles Hurtebize, Olivier Jean Marie, Grace Lam, Frédéric Richez
- Animation Checkers
- Marie-Agnès Bey, Eric Chanal, Catherine Meziat, Élisabeth Morcellet
- Animation Corrections
- Daniel Fiorito, Sonny Hong, Magnolia Ku Lea, Christian Sarrazin
- Additional Character Designers
- Edouard David, Daniel DeCelles, Jean-Christophe Herbeth, Samuel Jarry, Frédéric Vervisch
- Layout Supervisors
- Nadia Dicks, Guy Quelquejeu
- Assistant Layout Supervisor
- Anne Gendron
- Background Layout Supervisor
- Anne Gendron
- Layout Artists
- Gérald Audigier, Errol Burke, Maryann Capling, Michel Carbonneau, Ghislain Cloutier, Geoff Clowes, Philippe Dentz, Nadia Dicks, Meinert Hansen, Roman Hlywa, André Bibeur Lu, Jean-Noël Malinge, Vincent Misser, Knud Skov, Patrice Szewczyk, Jean-Pierre Urbain, Matthieu Venant, Frédéric Vervisch, Josette Zagar
- Final Checkers
- Pascale Monzie, Carine Pascal, Manuel Viera
- Lip Sync
- Patrick Claeys
- Lip Assistant
- Martin Poirier
- Checking
- Claude Drieu, Catherine Morin, Manuel Viera, Goga Vrbanc Duquet
- Sheet Directors
- Jim Hiltz, Joseph Jacques
- Directors
- Michel Gauthier, Pino van Lamsweerde, Michel Lemire
- Assistant Director
- Christine Côté
- Assistant Director (Studio Pixibox)
- Frédéric Mauxion
- Production Directors
- Christine Côté, Louis Duquet, Marie-Pierre Journet, Jacqueline Marleau
- Production Supervisor
- Michel Gauthier
- Production Managers (Studio Pixibox)
- Dominique Meunier, Patrice Onfray
- Post-Production Directors
- André-Gilles Gagné, Raymond Pinard, Joe Yared
- Post-Production Supervisors
- François Gervais, Bertrand Manzano
- Editors
- Suzanne Bouilly, Bernadette Cellier, Brigitte Pardon
- Assistant Editor
- Éric Chenot
- Picture Editor
- Suzanne Bouilly
- Music
- Ralph Bénatar, Bruno Bontempelli, Jean Gaucher
- Theme Song Performed By
- Paul Ada
- Music Edition
- Une Musique
- Sound Editor
- Sylvain Bourgault
- Assistant Sound Editors
- Marie-Jésus Palomares, Michèle Soucy
- Sound Mixers
- Patrick Egreteau, Gavin Fernandes, André-Gilles Gagné, Éric Ladouceur
- Assistant Sound Mixers
- Jérôme Brais, Éric Ladouceur
- Sound Conception
- Sylvain Bourgault
- Sound Conception Assistants
- Serge Hamel, Michel Maheu
- Sound Detection
- Marie-Jésus Palomares, Brigitte Pardon
- Sound Studio
- Mac'Tari
- Foley Artists
- Serge Godier, Jean-Guy Veran
- Post-Synchronization
- Claudio Ventura
- Digital Compositors
- Antoine Gagné, Isabelle Roussel, Paul Saint-Hilaire
- Production Assistants
- Hélène Beau, Pierre Carrère, Lisa Doucet, Goga Vrbanc Duquet
- Story Editing Advisors
- Matthew Cope, Patrick Pinchard
- Administrator
- Pierre Bernatchez
- Script Director
- Raynald De Leo
- Script Consultant
- Raynald Guillot
- Production Coordinator
- Karen Gunaratnam
- Production Coordinator (Studio Toonteck)
- Sylvie Boyer
- Post-Production Coordinator
- Raymond Pinard
- Voice Director
- Claude Joseph
- Production Assistant
- Tho Nguyen
- Consultant (English Version)
- Gale Noyer
- Director (Studio Pixibox)
- Jacques Peyrache
- Director (Studio Toonteck)
- DiLouis Duquet
- President (Animation Enterprises Limited)
- Steven Ching
- Detection
- Syned
Companies and other credits
- Recording Studio: Mediadub International
- Coloring: Studio Pixibox
- Coloring: Studio Toonteck
- Post-Production Video: AstralTech Inc
- Post-Synchronization: Karina Films
Production notes
A new animated adaptation, "Spirou & Fantasio," was released in 2006, using more modern graphics.
Accompanied by his loyal friends, Fantasio and Spip, tame squirrel Spirou, the intrepid reporter, fights villains all over the world. Together, they battle terrible mad scientist Zorglub, cruel pirate John Héléna and the formidable Zantafio.
Accompanied by his loyal friends, Fantasio and Spip, tame squirrel Spirou, the intrepid reporter, fights villains all over the world. Together, they battle terrible mad scientist Zorglub, cruel pirate John Héléna and the formidable Zantafio.