Cartoon
Zip Zip
The story
Zip Zip is a French animated television series created by Aurore Damant, based on an original idea by Anne Ozannat, and directed by Lionel Allaix. The series is produced by GO-N Productions with the participation of France Télévisions, Super RTL and The Walt Disney Company France in association with A Plus Image 3 and France 3. The series premiered on Super RTL in Germany on March 23, 2015 and on France 3 in France on April 4. It was renewed for a second season which premiered on July 8, 2019, with the English dub premiering on YouTube on August 6, 2021.
Premise
Tired of living in the forest, Washington the red fox, Sam the boar, his sister Eugenie, and Suzie the blackbird decide to leave the wilderness and go to the city. To avoid being seen by people as wild animals and getting caught by animal control, the four take domestic animal costumes to disguise themselves as a dog (Washington), a cat (Sam), a rabbit (Eugenie) and a canary (Suzie) and pose as common house pets incognito. The Livingstones soon adopt them, and now they live in the Livingstones' house with their cat, Victoria.
Throughout the episodes, they must keep their secret at all costs. They also get rid of numerous enemies who sometimes intimidate them and seize the Livingstone family home where they have settled.
Main
Washington (voiced by Gauthier Battoue in French and David Coburn in English) - a red fox who's disguised as a brown dog.
Sam (voiced by Benoît DuPac in French and Matthew Géczy in English) - a wild boar who's disguised as a blue cat.
Eugenie (voiced by Camille Donda in French and Sharon Mann in English) - a young wild boar who's disguised as a pink rabbit.
Suzie (voiced by Charlyne Pestel in French and Tiffany Hofstetter in English) - a blackbird who's disguised as a yellow canary.
Victoria (voiced by Diane Dassigny in French and Tiffany Hofstetter in English) - a disdainful, icy and odious grey cat.
Recurring
The Livingstones (voiced by Natacha Muller and Nessym Guetat in French and Sharon Mann and Matthew Géczy in English) - two human adults.
Nugget (Nougat) (voiced by Annabelle Roux in French and Tiffany Hofstetter in English) - a pink cat.
Fluffy (Framboise) (voiced by Leslie Lipkins in French and Sharon Mann in English) - a blue cat.
Vincent (voiced by Matthew Géczy in English) - a red/brown hamster.
Antagonists
Alvarez (voiced by Matthew Géczy in English) - an orange afghan hound.
Plato (voiced by Matthew Géczy in English) - a black Scottish Terrier.
Gracie and Alphie Apleeton (voiced by TBA) - two human children.
Mitch (voiced by Bruno Magne in French and David Coburn in English) - a brown bear.
Fang (voiced by TBA) - A blue neighborhood cat who's romantically driven to win the affection of Victoria.
Vladimir (voiced by Bruno Magne in French and Matthew Géczy in English) - a male vet.
Minor
Meadow (voiced by TBA) - a red vixen who is Washington's love interest.
Crew
Directed by: Lionel Allaix
Produced by: Eric Garnet and Anne de Galard
Series created by: Aurore Damant
Based on an original idea by: Anne Ozannat
Script editors: Cynthia True, Matthieu Chevallier (season 2), Johanna Goldschmidt (season 2)
Music composed by: Séverin
Executive Producer: Eric Garnet
Associate Producer: Anne de Galard
Line Producer: Emmanuel de Franceschi
Production manager: Séverine Modzelewski (season 2)
Production coordinators: Séverine Modzelewski, Amélie Oliveau, Lysa Jumelle (season 2)
Production assistant: Zuka Lelashvili (season 2)
1st assistant directors: Stéphane Bevilacqua, Margaux Ollier (season 2)
2nd assistant directors: Mathias Cottreau, Matthias Pialoux (season 2)
Script coordinator: Amélie Oliveau
Digital content production (season 2): Amélie Oliveau, Agathe Fradet
Translators: Leslie Damant-Jeandel, Manon Cranney, Rob Conrath, Justine Bannister, Patty Hannock (season 2), Jonathan Sly (season 2)
Storyboarders (season 1): Lionel Allaix, Anthony Pascal, Christophe Pittet, Gark, Philippe Leconte, Thierry Sapyn, Baptiste Lucas, Nicolas Moschini, Nima Azarba, Fred Mintoff, Brice Magnier, Julien Thompson, Dominique Etchecopar, Olivier Derynck, and Ronan Le Brun
Storyboarders (season 2): Lionel Allaix, Julien Thompson, Ryan Chang Lam, Alexandre Hesse, Sylvain Girault, Stéphane Beau, Maxime Mauboussin, Fredérick Chaillou, Yannick Zanchetta, Colin Albert, Mohamed Labidi, Ahmed Nasri, Alexis Routhiau, Camilo Collao, Olivier Dutranoy, Arthur Moncla
Chief character designer: Marc Bascougnano
Characters design (season 2): Érika Brémon, Mansoureh Kamaribidkorpeh, Hadrien Bonnet, Sylvain Bonnet, Éric Gosselet
Background design team: Baptiste Lucas (season 1), Bertrand Piocelle (season 1), Tiphaine Schroeder (season 1), Thomas Greffard (season 1), Manuel Tanon-Tchi (season 1), Roland Di Constanzo (season 2), Sophie Castaignede (season 2)
Props and FX designers: Louis-Gaël "Elger" Le Breton (season 1), Ahmed Guerrouache (season 1), François Maumont (season 1), José Lemaire (season 2)
Colour Styling team: Caroline Vanden Abeele (season 1), Christine Lips (season 1), Sylvia Lorrain, Manuel Tanon-Tchi (season 1)
Storyboard Assistants: Johann Cheneval (season 1), Cédric Frémeaux (season 1), Colin Albert (season 2)
Animation Director: Julien Cayot
Characters Builds: Mathieu Chaptel (season 1), Adeline Monin (season 1), Thomas Greffard (season 1)
Animation References (season 1): Mathieu Chaptel, Caroline Piochon, Mourad Seddiki
Layout Team: Franck Bonay (season 1), Miguel Larzillière (season 1), Brendan Merien (season 1)
Chief animators: Christophe N'Guyen (season 1), Gary Dominguez, Juliette Laurent (season 1), Lisa Lussiez (season 2)
Animatics editing: Fiona Couturier, Antoine Delaporte
Final editing: Fiona Couturier, Antoine Delaporte
Dialogues adapted by: Elise An, Antoine Ledoux (season 2), Clémentine Blayo-Nogret (season 2), Justine Dupont-Breitburd (season 2)
Literary Bible: Aurore Damant, Anne Ozannat
Graphic Bible: Aurore Damant, Manuel Tanon-Tchi
Trainee: Juliette Cuisinier
Broadcast
On January 28, 2016, GO-N Productions announced key deals for season one of the series in Europe. Signing on were RTVE for Clan – the number one kids channel in Spain – and AMC Networks Central Europe for Megamax, which broadcast Zip Zip in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova. These partner additions meant that the series would air in almost every European, Middle Eastern, Baltic, Scandinavian, Latin American and Asian territory worldwide. Over 100 markets were covered through major broadcasters like Disney Channels (France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Israel, India, Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, Australia & New Zealand, Latin America, and Brazil), Super RTL (Germany), SIC K (Portugal), SVT (Sweden), RÚV (Iceland), Etisalat (UAE), ITI Neovision (Poland), TV5Monde and DStv Kids (Angola & Mozanbique).
The series is currently broadcast in several countries worldwide, and has been rebroadcast since 2018 on France 4, from August 29, 2016 to March 24, 2020 on Disney XD France until March 24, 2020, and since August 26, 2019 on Disney Channel France. It has also aired on Teletoon+ in Poland, Disney XD in Australia and Italy, Family Channel and Télé-Québec in Canada, and Jetsen Huashi Wangju Kids in China.