Wikipedia:Tania Palumbo

Tania Palumbo is a French artist and animator who is responsible for creating the French animated television series Code Lyoko alongside Thomas Romain. She was a student of Gobelins animation school.

Works
She was a Gobelins student. In her second year, she partnered with Thomas Romain. In 2000, they made Les enfants font leur cinéma as a project for Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Antefilms liked the artstyle and gave the opportunity to Tania and Thomas to work with them on a new series. Together with Antefilms they made Garage Kids. From there, the duo worked on the series Literary and Graphical bibles. Four years later, Code Lyoko was born. Around this time, Thomas Romain chose to work on Oban Star Racers, rather than Code Lyoko. Tania stuck with Code Lyoko. She was the creative director of the first 4 seasons. She also worked on the original character designs. In 2009, she wrote the book "Aelita" alongside Fabrice Colin.

On October 1st 2020, Thomas Romain said in an interview with BFM TV that Tania is no longer in animation business. He said: "It seems that despite her immense talent, she left the world of animation. This one can be very hard. It is competitive and requires a lot of investment, sometimes beyond reason. Like other professional circles, there are also many cases of harassment and burnout. I know Tania has not been spared and may have suffered at times in her career."