‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Studio Blue Spirit Launches In-House Development Label, Plans North American Expansion (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comBen Croll French animation outfit Blue Spirit (the studio behind Netflix sensation “Blue Eye Samurai”) will introduced an in-house digital creation and development label under the moniker Blue Spirit Creative.
Offering full-service creative and graphic development for features, series, ads and games, the creative label will be run by the Paris-based team behind Digital Banana, which Blue Spirit acquired last year. “We can now offer a one-stop-shop,” says Blue Spirit CEO Olivier Lelardoux. “Whether in 2D, 3D, real-time engines or across hybrid models, we can guarantee it all through Blue Spirit Creative.” The new label will launch with four development projects already in the pipeline – including two American brands – but for the most part will specialize in pan-European content.
Across the pond, Blue Spirit will team with Ottawa-based studio Mercury Filmworks (“The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse”) to launch Seraphim, targeting the US market with premium and adult skewing content.
Based in Paris, with additional studios in Angouleme and Montreal, Blue Spirit is now bulking up its Canadian outpost ahead of production of the next season of “Blue Eye Samurai,” onboarding English-speaking CG supervisors and line-producers as way to be more agile and responsive to U.S.
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