Fallen Giant
Foreign title: Le Géant Englouti (French)
Series title: Les Aventures Fantastiques du Commandant Cousteau (Fren
- Studio
- Dargaud-Marina, Vivatoon, France 3, Ocean Tales Inc.
Characters
Commandant Cousteau, Walrus, Basil
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Kisler
Producing
- Producer
- François Brisson, Christine Côté, Jean-Pierre Morin, J. Gaspard de Chavagnac, Danielle Theriault
- Executive Producer
- Gil Carpio
Writing
- Writer
- Yves Paccalet, Jean Pêcheux, Scott Faulconbridge
Voices
- Voice
- John Stocker (Walrus, Basil)
- Vocal Talent (French-Language Version)
- Christophe Malavoy (Commandant Cousteau)
Music
- Music
- Claude Castonguay
Animation
- Animator
- Eric Nury
Art Department
- Art Director
- Florian Ferrier
- Character Design
- Kisler
- Backgrounds
- Cécile Thomas
Crew
- Scientific Advisor
- Yves Paccalet
- French Adaptation
- Maurice Latino, Patrick Guillemin
Companies and other credits
- Colorized and Composited By: Toutenkartoon Canada Inc
Production notes
CGI animation.
Budgeted at $7 million U.S.
This true-to-life marine discovery series combines a widespread knowledge and a diver's experience. In order to pass his experience and knowledge to the younger generation, Commandant Cousteau has organized an ambitious ship, the Calypso. Accompanied by five children, specialists and adventurers, he travels the world's oceans to paradisaical hideaways and dark quarters. He arouses the curiosity of his young crew, which is always eager to discover the wonderful and fragile variety of the marine world.
Stories- created with a mix of actual and imagined events- were written with the help of Yves Paccalet, a scientist who traveled with and wrote for Jacques Cousteau.
"It took one year before we reached the right mixture between the action, the adventure and the science," said J. Gaspard de Chavagnac, CEO of France's Dargaud-Marina studio. "On one side, we had The Cousteau Society, who wanted it to be more doc. On the other side we had the broadcasters, who wanted more action/adventure. We had to learn how to mix those two things."
The Cousteau Society was not an official production partner in the series, and contributed no funds toward it. However, Dargaud-Marina bought the rights to use the Cousteau name and the Calypso ship environment. In addition, the society supervises all the stories.
"They have a look at all the scripts and the first storyboards to see that they respect a certain level of truth and reach a certain level of quality," de Chavagnac said.
Budgeted at $7 million U.S.
This true-to-life marine discovery series combines a widespread knowledge and a diver's experience. In order to pass his experience and knowledge to the younger generation, Commandant Cousteau has organized an ambitious ship, the Calypso. Accompanied by five children, specialists and adventurers, he travels the world's oceans to paradisaical hideaways and dark quarters. He arouses the curiosity of his young crew, which is always eager to discover the wonderful and fragile variety of the marine world.
Stories- created with a mix of actual and imagined events- were written with the help of Yves Paccalet, a scientist who traveled with and wrote for Jacques Cousteau.
"It took one year before we reached the right mixture between the action, the adventure and the science," said J. Gaspard de Chavagnac, CEO of France's Dargaud-Marina studio. "On one side, we had The Cousteau Society, who wanted it to be more doc. On the other side we had the broadcasters, who wanted more action/adventure. We had to learn how to mix those two things."
The Cousteau Society was not an official production partner in the series, and contributed no funds toward it. However, Dargaud-Marina bought the rights to use the Cousteau name and the Calypso ship environment. In addition, the society supervises all the stories.
"They have a look at all the scripts and the first storyboards to see that they respect a certain level of truth and reach a certain level of quality," de Chavagnac said.