Studio La Cachette

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| type = Private

| foundation = 2014

| founder = Ulysse Malassagne
Julien Chheng
Ousama Bouacheria

| location_city = Paris

| location_country = France

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| industry = Animation

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| products = Feature films
Television series
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Studio La Cachette is a French animation studio based in Paris. It was co-founded by Ulysse Malassagne, Julien Chheng and Ousama Bouacheria in 2014. The studio is best known for providing animation services in Genndy Tartakovsky's television series Primal and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, as well as for their contributions to the anthology series Love, Death & Robots and Star Wars: Visions.

History

La Cachette first gained attention in 2013 after the release of Kairos, an animated trailer for Malassagne's comic of the same name. The short went viral thanks to the coverage of animation news websites like Catsuka and Cartoon Brew.{{Cite web|url=https://www.catsuka.com/player/kairos_trailer|title=Kairos – Trailer|website=Catsuka|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=January 3, 2025}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/kairos-is-the-most-exciting-hand-drawn-animation-youll-see-today-81688.html|title="Kairos" is the Most Exciting Hand-Drawn Animation You'll See Today|website=Cartoon Brew|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=January 3, 2025}} The studio was then contracted to do a 2D animated sequence for the French computer animated film Mune: Guardian of the Moon (2014), in which Bouacheria was already working as a storyboard artist.

In 2019, La Cachette produced an episode for Netflix's adult animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots. It was the only fully 2D animated entry in the series first season.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWsIo_HcBBc|title=LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS – Inside the Animation: Sucker of Souls|website=YouTube|date=April 10, 2019|access-date=January 3, 2025}}

Around this time, the studio received an offer from Genndy Tartakovsky to do the pilot for his next project, Primal. The series premiered on Adult Swim on October 8, 2019, and received widespread critical acclaim, with much praise for its animation. In August 2020, the series was renewed for a second season and has since received six Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards nominations, winning five of them, including Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.{{cite web|last=Valdez|first=Nick|title=Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal Confirms Release Window for Season 2|url=https://comicbook.com/anime/news/primal-season-2-release-date-window-adult-swim-genndy-tartakovsky|website=ComicBook.com|access-date=January 5, 2025|date=February 14, 2022|archive-date=21 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321033308/https://comicbook.com/anime/news/primal-season-2-release-date-window-adult-swim-genndy-tartakovsky/|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|last=Huff|first=Lauren|title=2020 Creative Arts Emmys: Full list of winners|url=https://ew.com/awards/emmys/2020-creative-arts-emmys-full-winners-list|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=January 5, 2025|date=September 19, 2020}}{{Cite web|last1=Giardina|first1=Carolyn|last2=Chuba|first2=Kirsten|last3=Beresford|first3=Trilby|last4=Drury|first4=Sharareh|date=September 12, 2021|title=Creative Arts Emmys: Complete Winners List|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2021-creative-arts-emmys-full-winners-list-1235010996|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911232451/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2021-creative-arts-emmys-full-winners-list-1235010996/|archive-date=September 11, 2021|access-date=January 5, 2025|website=The Hollywood Reporter}} A third season is currently in development.{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/genndy-tartakovskys-primal-third-season|title=Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal Is Getting a Third Season|first=Jordan|last=Sirani|date=June 16, 2023|publisher=|website=IGN|access-date=January 5, 2025}}

La Cachette and Tartakovsky would collaborate once again in Unicorn: Warriors Eternal (2023), a long gestating project from Tartakovsky which was conceived during his early days at Cartoon Network Studios. Similarly to Primal, the series received positive reviews.{{Cite web |last=Motamayor |first=Rafael |date=June 15, 2022 |title=Unicorn: Warriors Eternal Review: Genndy Tartakovsky Is Back With Another Thrilling And Genre-Bending Series [Annecy] |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/896331/unicorn-warriors-eternal-review-genndy-tartakovsky-is-back-with-another-thrilling-and-genre-bending-series-annecy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710095110/https://www.slashfilm.com/896331/unicorn-warriors-eternal-review-genndy-tartakovsky-is-back-with-another-thrilling-and-genre-bending-series-annecy/ |archive-date=July 10, 2022 |access-date=January 5, 2025 |website=/Film |language=en-US}}{{cite web

|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/unicorn_warriors_eternal/s01 |title=Unicorn: Warriors Eternal – Season 1 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=January 5, 2025}}

In 2023, Lucasfilm announced that La Cachette was one of the animated studios that had created a short for the second volume of the animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions. Written and directed by Chheng, "The Spy Dancer" was released on May 4, 2023, along the rest of the shorts. The season received critical acclaim.{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Justin |date=May 29, 2022 |title=Star Wars Visions Will Return for Even More Anime Greatness |url=https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-visions-season-2-anime-disney-plus-1848969658 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529224726/https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-visions-season-2-anime-disney-plus-1848969658 |archive-date=May 29, 2022 |access-date=January 5, 2025 |website=Gizmodo}}{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=star_wars_visions|type=tv|season=2|title=Star Wars Visions|access-date=January 5, 2025}}

More recently, Malassagne, Chheng and Bouacheria started working on their own personal projects. The first of these, Malassagne's Le Collège Noir, debuted on October 31, 2023 on the French SVOD platform ADN. An adaptation of his comic of the same name, the television series consists of six episodes with a length of 15 minutes each, and was produced in collaboration with Japanese studio Toei Animation.{{Cite web |last=Milligan |first=Mercedes |date=May 23, 2023 |title=La Cachette & ADN Team with Toei on 'Le Collège Noir' |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/05/la-cachette-adn-team-with-toei-on-le-college-noir/ |access-date=January 5, 2025 |website=Animation Magazine}}

The other two projects are Bouacheria's Mehdi, Avis de Passage, based on his personal experience as a postman before he joined the Gobelins school, and Chheng's Mu Yi, a fantasy feature film that takes inspiration from Chinese folklore.

Filmography

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
width=10 \| # ! width=260 \| Title ! width=110 \| Premiere date ! width=80 \| Network
1 \| Love, Death & Robots: "Sucker of Souls" \| March 15, 2019 \| Netflix
2 \| Primal \| October 8, 2019 \| Adult Swim
3 \| Star Wars: Visions: "The Spy Dancer" \| May 4, 2023 \| Disney+
4 \| Unicorn: Warriors Eternal \| May 5, 2023 \| Adult Swim
5 \| Le Collège Noir \| October 31, 2023 \| ADN

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width=10 | #

! width=260 | Title

! width=110 | Premiere date

! width=80 | Network

| Love, Death & Robots: "Sucker of Souls"

| March 15, 2019

| Netflix

| Primal

| October 8, 2019

| Adult Swim

| Star Wars: Visions: "The Spy Dancer"