Dragons et princesses
| Dragons et princesses | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Fairy tale anthology series |
| Written by | Michel Ocelot |
| Directed by | Michel Ocelot |
| Voices of |
Yves Barsacq Olivier Claverie Michel Elias Isabelle Guiard Michel Ocelot |
| Composer(s) | Christian Maire |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language(s) | French |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Christophe Rossignon Michel Ocelot |
| Editor(s) | Patrick Ducruet |
| Running time | 13 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Nord-Ouest Films Studio O Canal+ |
| Distributor | Canal+ StudioCanal |
| Release | |
| Original network | Canal+ Family |
| Picture format | 576i |
| Original release | October 25 – November 5, 2010 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Les Contes de la nuit (1992) |
| Related shows | Ciné si (1989) |
Dragons et princesses (Dragons and Princesses) is a 2010 French computer animation television program written, storyboarded and directed by Michel Ocelot and produced at Studio O for Canal+. It is a fairy tale anthology series of ten further 13-minute episodes in the format established in Ciné si. Five of the episodes are edited, with a feature-exclusive sixth, into the 2011 stereoscopic compilation movie Tales of the Night.
The series, which Ocelot also voice acted in, co-produced, art directed and designed, returns to the format of short silhouette animation fairy tales established by 1989's Ciné si and continued in 1992's Tales of the Night to produce further stories originally conceived for the then-unsuccessful Ciné si, episodes of which have since enjoyed popularity in the form of the compilation movie Princes and Princesses.
At least as early as September 2006, when Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest was previewing in France, Ocelot was mentioning in interviews that he was planning to return to silhouettes and the anthology format with a project then planned to be titled Bergères et Dragons (Shepherdesses and Dragons) and released in 2008 but wavered on whether it would it take the format of a feature film or television series and if it would consist of a combination of existing and new or all-new footage (the title suggests the inclusion of the "Bergère qui danse" segment of the earlier Tales of the Night). Instead, 2008 saw the inclusion of these earlier silhouette films in the Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot short film collection and the new project, set back by production of several others, was announced in June 2010 as taking its eventual form of both a television series of ten new silhouette films and a new Tales of the Night for movie theaters drawn from it.
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