Technicolor Animation Productions was first founded in Paris, France on May 28, 2003 in which it was originally known as Timoon Animation when the then vice-president of Lagardère Images, Brigett Gautheir-Darcet and founder of another animation studio in France
PMMP, Philippe Mounier teamed up to create this company in order to boost Lagardère Images and produced its first animated series
The Odd Family which they co-produced with
SAMG Animation (now SAMG Entertainment). In 2007, Sandrine Nguyen and Boris Hertzog launched their audiovisuel production company named OuiDo! Entertainment but on October 3, 2008 Sandrine Nguyen and Boris Hertzog the directors of OuiDo! Entertainment which they founded in 2007 joined Timoon Animation under Christophe Thoral with the two being both named Managing Producer and Executive Producer including their projects which were being developed under Timoon Animation as OuiDo! Entertainment's division was merged into Timoon Animation. On March 5, 2012 after Lagardére Entertainment was founded in 2008 taking Timoon Animation with it, it was announced that the company had been rebranded to Genao Productions in order to expand its focus towards fiction and unscripted entertainment programs for young people. In October of that same year Genao Productions announced that they had partnered with American-based company and owner of the legendary
Alvin and the Chipmunks band
Bagdasarian Productions to produce a new CGI animated series revival named
ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks which was originally titled
The Chipmunks and Chipettes with
PGS Entertainment acquiring the global distribution rights to the show on August 21, 2013 but excluding US and France. In October 2, 2013 the company joined forces with Japanese-based video game company
Sega through its American division Sega of America to bring the
Sonic the Hedgehog franchise back into television with its CGI animated series
Sonic Boom which premiered on
Cartoon Network in the US,
Canal J and
Gulli in France on November 8, 2014 with Lagardère Entertainment Rights (now LS Distribution) handling distribution. Also in October, 7 of the same year when Largadère Entertainment had announced that they were ceasing animation production in order to focus on scripted and unscripted programming, they sold its animation subsidiary Genao Productions to its managers Sandrine Nguyen and Boris Hertzog which founded OuiDo! Entertainment in 2007 prior to join the company in 2008. Genao was turned into an independent animation producer by them and the two renamed the company to and created OuiDo! Productions after they with Lagardére Entertainment Rights retaining Genao's back catalogue. Sandrine Nguyen and Boris Hertzog were both later named CEOs of the newly renamed company with Hertzog became the present of the independent animation studio. On February 25, 2015, American/French technology and creative company
Technicolor SA (now known as Vantiva) announced that they had acquired OuiDo! Productions and they renamed the studio as Technicolor Animation Productions with Sandrine Nguyen and Boris Hertzog remained CEOs and continued to work for the renamed company. After the Technicolor SA purchase, OuiDo! works were retroactively credited with the new company name and logo, replacing the OuiDo! logo. It partnered up with American-based
Bagdasarian Productions to produce the 2015 series
Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks with
PGS Entertainment distributing. the show started airing in March 2015 and April 2015 respectively in the
United States and
United Kingdom on
Nickelodeon. In 2017, Technicolor Animation Productions announced
Team DroniX, a creation co-produced with France TV and Gloob in Brazil. In 2022, due to the spin-off of
Technicolor Creative Studios, it, along with Technicolor Animation, were merged into
Mikros Animation, this caused some shows such as Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks to end production. In March 2025, Boris Hertzog acquired certain assets of Mikros Animation due to the receivership of its parent company, officially relaunching the studio back under its former name OuiDo! Productions with the company planning to merge with Hertzog's distribution arm Moon Keys International Content. ==Filmography==