Flatmania
Flatmania is an animated television series, which is based on a visual style created by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Isabelle Simler and produced by Method Animation, Futurikon and Vivatoon with the participation with France 3, Disney Television France, YTV and SRC. The series is about a real teen who gets transported in the Flatmania (a series of magazines) paper world.
| Flatmania | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Isabelle Simler Sophie Castalgnede |
| Developed by | Prakash Topsy |
| Theme music composer | Anggun |
| Opening theme | Take Me There, sung by Anggun |
| Country of origin | Canada France |
| Original language(s) | English French |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 52 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Philippe Delarue Aton Soumache |
| Production company(s) | Method Animation Futurikon Vivatoon |
| Release | |
| Original network | France 3 (France) YTV (Canada) |
| First shown in | France |
| Original release | 2004 |
Animation style
The animation style of Flatmania is very particular. Due to the heroes being paper flat, special effects were used so the paper people, when turning around or being seen aside, will be as flat as paper. This technique also implies paper transformations, which means that the heroes might be folded as origami. The style was re-used in Futurikon's 2007 series, Pop Secret.
Synopsis
During each episode, Vincent and Kyu arrive on a new magazine and must find a rift that will send them to the next magazine.