3d animation founded 1995 founder jean christophe bernard guillaume hellouin fabrice giger headquarters paris france area served shangai china vancouver british columbia tokyo japan saigon vietnam owner virtuos number of employees 1000 website www.sparx.com sparx animation studios is a visual effects animation company that creates feature films tv shows and game cinematics . sparx is owned by virtuos and has production teams in shanghai chengdu and saigon and offices in paris vancouver and tokyo . sparx was founded in 1995 by jean christophe bernard guillaume hellouin and fabrice giger and became well known for co producing rolie polie olie with nelvana and disney channel . the company produced the fully computer animated movie igor starring john cusack and molly shannon which was released on september 19 2008 . sparx had temporarily closed its french office in 2008 and american and vietnamese offices in 2010 . in september 2011 sparx assets and core team were acquired and reopened by virtuos 1 a digital entertainment production company . virtuos has more than 1000 employees under the virtuos and sparx brands . filmography edit feature animation igor 2008 tv series star wars rebels starting from season 2 2015 present zorro the chronicles 2014 gazoon 2009 zo kezako 2004 rolie polie olie the great defender of fun 2002 les filles l ne et les boeufs 2002 molly star racer 2001 r. mertonensis 2001 purgatoire 2001 deux sur la com te 2000 rolie polie olie 1998 bob & scott 1996 dtv productions the lion king 1 2004 care bears journey to joke a lot 2004 mickey s twice upon a christmas 2004 shorts grand odyssey 2005 robota 2002 youri the spaceman 2002 special effects cdd i 2005 photograbber 2004 summer in the golden valley 2003 bella ciao 2001 le nouveau big bang 2001 gr goire moulin contre l humanit 2001 changing faces the best of louise 2001 thomas in love 2000 my life in pink 1997 commercials tf soccer id 1997 eurosport euro 2000 2000 13th street reface 2001 references edit virtuos buys sparx . variety . external links edit official website english sparx animation studios at the internet movie database official robota website v t e animation industry in france economy of france studios companies active callicore ellipse programm folimage gaumont film company gaumont animation les cin mas gaumont path xilam gobelins school of the image h5 les armateurs mac guff marathon media marathon images millimages moonscoop group neomis animation on animation studios ouido productions procidis pumpkin 3d sav the world productions sparx animation studios teamto tele images kids defunct action synthese dic entertainment django films related topics mile cohl fantasmagorie praxinoscope this article related to an animation studio is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this french corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sparx animation studios & oldid 744567884 categories french animation studioscompanies of francecompanies based in parisspecial effects companiesanimation studio stubsfrench company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol edit links this page was last modified on 16 october 2016 at 02 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view