"Paris-based studio making human stories, and a little poetry ."

Troublemakers is an animation studio and production company founded in Paris in 2008. They make commercials, brand content and brand entertainment, in animation and live action, working with brands directly or through their agency. In 2026, they launched their sister company, Troublemakers Originals, where they develop and produce their own work: animated series and specials, documentaries, feature films and hybrid fiction. Two companies, one team. For the last few years, the studio made films under several names. Jackflash has now joined Troublemakers. Eliotness, the label behind their first documentaries, has become Troublemakers Originals.

Whether they’re making their own work or commissioned films, their approach stays the same. They build all their work around the writer-director-producer trio. They follow projects from the first spark of an idea through to release, always looking for the techniques and the artists that will take each one as far as it can go. Live action, editing, 2D and 3D animation, mixed media, stop motion, claymation, compositing, SFX and grading all happen under one roof, on the Faubourg Saint-Martin in the center of Paris.


Studio Projects:

Lena and the Remarkables:
ena is a calm, ordinary little girl, until the day her emotions literally explode. Her parents send her to the School for Remarkables, an eccentric school for children with extraordinary peculiarities. There, alongside the elastic-child and the flower-child, she and her best friend will embark on adventures that teach them all to be proud of what makes them unique.

The Obvious Match: Pizza and Ananas:
In recruitment, everyone is ultimately looking for the same thing: to find their people. The right job, the right team, the place where you belong. For its first brand campaign, marking its tenth anniversary, Welcome to the Jungle chose to talk about it with humour, through pairings as unlikely as they are obvious. This one is probably the most famous of all divisive matches: pizza and pineapple. Alexandre Scalvino entrusted the drawing to illustrator Valestrator and animated it in the spirit of 1930s cartoons, all bounce and squash and stretch, right up to the campaign’s sign-off: choose the company that’s right for you. The film was shortlisted at the Club des DA in 2023.

Dark Woods:
After her mother’s death, Sasha moves to the countryside with her father. In the strange forest at the edge of their new home, she befriends a small magical fox with an unusual golden glow. But when a mysterious hunter takes him away, she must confront the grief she has carried in silence in order to bring him back and, perhaps, find herself.

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