Gaumont Animation

Christian Davin founded Alphanim in February 1997 after stepping down as president of France Animation. Its first production, Animal Crackers, a co-production with CINAR based on the comic strip by Roger Bollen, debuted later that year in September.

In 2003, Alphanim and StudioCanal jointly established Alphanim Video to distribute Alphanim's catalogue on home media.^[7]

In November 2007, Gaumont launched its acquisition of Alphanim; the transaction closed in January 2008 for €25 million, marking Gaumont's return to television and animation production for the first time in eight years; it is an entry into English-language productions, after Gaumont Television was sold in 1999 and Gaumont Multimedia's assets were acquired in 2000 by Xilam.^{[8][9][10][11]}

In March 2013, the studio was rebranded as Gaumont Animation; it also announced its partnership with DreamWorks Animation for Noddy, Toyland Detective.^[12]

In March 2016, Nicolas Atlan joined the studio as president and named Terry Kalagian as VP of creative for animation.^[13]

In June 2023, Terry Kalagian was promoted to president of the studio.^[3] The same month, Gaumont signed a first-look deal with Studio 100, a Belgian company which will co-produce series with and distribute Gaumont Animation's catalogue worldwide.^[14]