The Podcats

The Podcats
Created by	Eric Chevalier; Nathalie Blanchard; Ian Parovel
Based on	Les Podcats
Developed by	Okidoki Studio
Directed by	Eric Chevalier; Antoine Colomb; Guillaume Rio
Voices of	(French Cast); Alexis Tomassian; Diane Dassigny; Jessica Barrier; Carole Baillien; Pierre Hattet
Theme music composer	Gustave Rudmann; Roddy Julienne
Opening theme	We are the Podcats
Composer(s)	Roddy Julienne
Country of origin	France
Original language(s)	French
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	78 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Morgane Group
Running time	7-8 minutes
Production company(s)	France Télévision
Release
Original network	France 3; TVP3; Netflix
Picture format	HD 16/9
Original release	7 September 2009 –; present
External links
	Website

The Podcats is a French 3D animated television series of 78 episodes, produced by Okidoki Studio with Docks Dog Studio and the TV channel France 3. The first season has been aired 7 February 2009 on France 3 in the TV show Ludo. Next seasons were aired to France 4 and France Ô.

Each episode includes two sketches dealing with the same subject, and a third entitled Profcats explaining the theme of the day's show, such as: boss , GPS , buzz , ping , etc. The episode ends generally with a musical performance of the Podcats in front of the public.

Overactive animation, manga faces, colorful environments and the many characters from different video game universes are characteristic of the series and give it a very particular style.

The work of animation, lighting and compositing was entrusted to Mokko Studio, a Montreal studio.

Synopsis

Four videogame characters decided to create a music group after having been tired of always staying in their respective games, this does not prevent them from returning to experience multiple adventures.

Characters

Senzo: Voiced by: Alexis Tomassian (French); He is the lead singer of the band and the guitarist. It comes from a " Guitar Hero ", it's probably his super cool attitude that attracts so much Bella (Senzo ignores it). He loves Bella very much, but does not dare to tell her for fear she will laugh at him.

His style: English pop manga, a "rockmantic" thing that makes girls crack
His passions: Less heroic in games than behind a guitar
Its bonus: a mixture of nonchalant charm and communicative enthusiasm
His items: "Redfire" of course, his guitar "cybervintage" strings stretched with pure energy

Bella: Voiced by: Diane Dassigny (French); She is the band's keyboardist, is a Sims who has some difficulty controlling her emotions that inevitably trigger an avalanche of emoticons . It is for the leader of the group, Senzo, that she secretly has a crush.

Her style: Stylish
Her Bonus : Rock and balances
Her malus : Her emoticons betray all the emotions she has difficulty controlling
Her bonus: It is a rebel in the skin of a "girly"
Her items: A book of psychology and an interactive mirror

Gala: Voiced by: Jessica Barrier (French); She is the bass player, she comes from an online multiplayer game, she is a magic elf who never separates from her spellbook. Unfortunately for the people around her, these spells rarely have the expected effect and cause many misfortunes that trigger many adventures.

Her style: Elvish
Her Passions: Rock and Magic
Her bonus: Her obstinacy. Always ready for adventure, she is afraid of nothing
Her malus: Her anger is noisy
Her item: A grimoire

Mimo: Voiced by: Carole Baillien (French); He is the drummer, he comes out straight of a game of surfing, snowboarding , skateboarding . It has the relaxed Californian attitude typical of those who only think about finding their waves. He is also one of those video game fanatics who only think of beating their records.

His style: Californian too cool
His passions: Rock and DIY
His bonus: Putting his technological findings to the services of the group
His malus: Same
His items: The extension of his feet, a skateboard

Episodes

gollark: You shouldn't even need a server for transferring files between two devices anyway.

gollark: In my case, I was outside, on a phone, and not on a LAN with my server.

gollark: Syncthing has impressively good device discovery, so it would be very neat to have that but just for single-use file sharing and shipped with OSes.

gollark: It might have been driver accursedness.

gollark: Better ones presumably cost proportionately more, but I don't think it's a huge fraction of tablet cost.

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