Code Lyoko: Evolution
French teen drama science fiction live-action/computer-animated television series
Code Lyoko: Evolution is a French teen drama science fiction television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by MoonScoop for France Télévisions, Lagardère Thématiques and Canal J, in association with Sofica Cofanim, Backup Media, and B Media Kids. It is a live-action/CGI-animated continuation of the French animated television series Code Lyoko.
The series centers on a group of teenagers who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to battle against a malignant artificial intelligence known as XANA, who once again threatens Earth with its extraordinary abilities to access the real world and cause trouble via activating one of ten towers on each of Lyoko's five regions, excluding its Forest and Ice regions.
The scenes in the real world employ live-action with hand-painted backgrounds, while the scenes on Lyoko and the Cortex are presented in 3D CGI animation. It premiered on January 5, 2013 on France 4 and 30 November 2013 on Canal J. It blends live-action with 3D CGI animation, picking up where the original series left off. In addition to improving upon the CGI in the original series, the soundtrack has been overhauled as well.
Plot
One year after the events of the original animated series, Aelita Schaeffer, Jeremy Belpois, Odd Della Robbia, Ulrich Stern, Yumi Ishiyama, and newly welcomed member of the group William Dunbar return to their daily lives at Kadic Academy. XANA, an autonomous, sentient multi-agent system/artificial intelligence that they had succeeded in defeating previously, reappears, reborn with more power than before. The protagonists reactivate Franz Hopper's quantum supercomputer, which runs the virtual world Lyoko, and resume their former double lives in order to protect humanity from the threat of XANA once again. Joined by William Dunbar, who has finally been accepted as the sixth Lyoko Warrior, and unreliable girl-genius Laura Gauthier, the heroes seek to unravel the reasons for XANA's return and exterminate it.
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