Donkey Kong Country is the first television series that has been primarily animated with motion capture technology. The show was first introduced in France on September 4, 1996, on France 2, on a hybrid live-action and motion-capture-animated block titled La Planète de Donkey Kong (The Planet of Donkey Kong) It later became a full series and broadcast from August 15, 1997 to July 7, 2000. The second season was produced by Taiwanese CGI studio CGCG.