Origins
Code Lyoko originates from the film short Les enfants font leur cinéma (The children make their movies), directed by Thomas Romain and produced by a group of students from Parisian visual arts school Gobelins School of the Image. Romain worked with Tania Palumbo, Stanislas Brunet, and Jerome Cottray to create the film, which was screened at the 2000 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. French animation company Antefilms offered Romain and Palumbo a contract as a result of the film. This led to the development of the pilot, Garage Kids.
Garage Kids was released in 2001. The project was created by Palumbo, Romain, and Carlo de Boutiny and developed by Anne de Galard. Its producers were Eric Garnet, Nicolas Atlan, Benoît di Sabatino, and Christophe di Sabatino. The project was produced by Antefilms.
Similar to its succeeding show Code Lyoko, Garage Kids was originally intended to be a 26-episode miniseries detailing the lives of four French boarding school students who have discovered the secret of the virtual world of Xanadu, created by a research group headed by the Professor. The Professor plunged into madness, and the resulting sinisterly evil disturbances deep within Xanadu threaten the real world. The pilot featured both 2D hand-drawn animation on Earth, and 3D computer animation in Xanadu.
Garage Kids eventually was perfected and evolved into Code Lyoko, which began broadcast in 2003. Romain, however, left the show to work on the Japanese anime series Oban Star Racers.
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