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H5

Logo: Ludovic Houplain, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

French design and animation studio

H5 is a French design and animation studio founded by Ludovic Houplain and Antoine Bardou-Jacquet in 1994. Under Houplain's art direction, H5's work can mostly be found in the fields of music videos (visuals for Air, Super Discount, Etienne de Crécy, Röyksopp, Le Tone, Alex Gopher, Darkel, Cosmo Vitelli and Demon) and luxury advertising (Dior, Cartier, Hugo Boss, Hermès and Lancôme). Since 1999, H5 has also worked as a collective of directors.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1994Founded1
  • Industrygraphic design1
  • HeadquartersParis1
  • Websitewww.h5.fr
  • Legal formprivate limited company1

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H5 is a French design and animation studio founded by Ludovic Houplain and Antoine Bardou-Jacquet in 1994. Under Houplain's art direction, H5's work can mostly be found in the fields of music videos (visuals for Air, Super Discount, Etienne de Crécy, Röyksopp, Le Tone, Alex Gopher, Darkel, Cosmo Vitelli and Demon) and luxury advertising (Dior, Cartier, Hugo Boss, Hermès and Lancôme). Since 1999, H5 has also worked as a collective of directors. They also made their first animated clips, such as animated typography for Alex Gopher, a cartoon for Zebda, digital animations for Super Furry Animals and Playgroup.2

The story

The H5 design studio was founded in 1993. He specialized at the beginning in the realization of graphic projects then the artistic direction of labels in the field of electronic music (in particular for artists and labels of the French Touch). This collective designs its first animated clips from 1999, in particular that of The Child by Alex Gopher based on 3D animated typography which makes them known and launches the activity of H5 in advertising.

Their 2002 music video for Remind Me Röyksopp, which depicts the day of an average office worker solely using animated infographics footage, is also noted, notably winning Best Music Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2002.

From Wikipedia’s article on H5 (French company), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1994Founded Founded1

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