Gribouille (2015)

Gribouille is a French live-action/animated  created by Denis Dugas, Pierre-Alek Beddiar, and Lorenzo Vallée. The is based on the title character by Dugas, who was previously featured in L'Île aux enfants. It premiered on on Canal+ Family.

The show follows a yellow monster named Gribouille, a purple crayon named Minimine, and their pink fish Bulle as they love to play their favorite game, La Gribounette (Riddleboo in English). Gribouille draws something while Minimine tries to guess what it is. When correctly guessed, sentient crayons color in the piece and bring it to life. At the end of each episode, the duo draw the Riddleboo again, going over the drawing as a tutorial.

In nearly all international versions of the show, Gribouille was renamed to Doodleboo, and Minimine was renamed to Sketchy.

Production
Gribouille is based on the character by Denis Dugas, the designer of L'Île aux enfants. The title character originated from 2-minute segments called Bonjour Gribouille that were featured on L'Île aux enfants in. Dugas was impressed with Nadine Forster's work, so he asked the artist to draw some sketches of the character. With Nadine, Denis, Pierre-Alek and Lorenzo, the series began to develop.

Osibo, in synergy with Dugas and Moving Puppet, evolved the original concept and created new charactes, sets, and accessories. It was important to the team that the new series respected that of L'Île aux enfants and its fans.

The first technical tests began in in the Moving Puppet studio, and the first episodes were filmed in August. Gribouille is a real puppet who is animated by two actors, while Minimine is in 3D using. The show also uses 2D as well to create a hybrid program of sorts.

The second of Gribouille began production on. The manufacturing expenses in Belgium were 650.000€.

Broadcast
Gribouille premiered on Canal+ Family in France on. The second season premiered on Piwi+ on.

In Canada, the airs on TFO.

Cast

 * }

International versions

 * }

Trivia

 * In French, "gribouiller" means to doodle or to scribble.