Carbulator is a tool designed to measure and manage the carbon footprint of animation studios and their productions.
It enables the preparation of certified carbon footprint assessments that comply with the CNC’s (France) eco-conditionality requirements. It is based on the Bilan Carbone® methodology and is compatible with the GHG Protocol – two reference frameworks that guarantee rigorous and reliable emissions calculations, while ensuring that the results are consistent with your regulatory reporting obligations.
Drive your business with a comprehensive carbon strategy!
Carbulator allows you to accurately measure the carbon footprint of your studios and the works you produce, transforming your operational data into carbon metrics.
Your studio’s annualized carbon footprint helps you understand your structural impacts, while project-specific carbon footprints reflect the impacts of the resources used for a given production over its entire duration.
Carbulator accurately reflects the realities of complex productions—including those involving co-productions—by allocating resources among studios, in-house teams, and external service providers.
Carbulator incorporates emissions factors specific to each region (energy, transportation, etc.). This allows you to obtain localized results—particularly for multi-site production or international co-production—while maintaining a consistent calculation method.
France is currently the only country represented; the international version is scheduled for release in 2027.
Carbulator’s metrics and charts provide a clear and structured overview of your carbon emissions. They allow you to quickly identify the main areas of impact, understand the interactions between different emission sources, and compare results across studios, projects, or time periods. These visualizations facilitate analysis and help teams make informed decisions.
Turn your inventory into actionable carbon data!
Digital infrastructure has a carbon footprint. This module consolidates all your equipment to provide you with an accurate measurement of that impact.
Every screen that’s on, every server that’s running: your digital infrastructure has a carbon footprint. This module consolidates all your equipment—workstations, servers, screens, and other IT hardware—across all studios and years to accurately measure the carbon footprint of your IT infrastructure.
Create your equipment inventory, then organize your equipment into standard configurations that reflect the actual setups of your workstations. Each configuration used in a workgroup automatically contributes to the carbon footprint of your projects.
Thanks to the advanced percentage-based distribution system, you can model heterogeneous setups without having to create multiple configurations—whether you’re dealing with multiple generations of graphics workstations or uneven distributions of additional monitors, for example.
New: Groups and Broadcasters Dashboard
Centralize, analyze, and manage the carbon footprint of your animation program catalog from a dedicated interface.
For Media Groups (tracking your internal subsidiaries) and Broadcasters (tracking your suppliers), consolidating environmental data is often a complex challenge. The Broadcasters & Media Groups Dashboard simplifies this process by automatically aggregating the carbon footprints of all the productions associated with you.
No more manual file collection. Every project tagged by your service providers or subsidiaries with your ID is automatically uploaded to your interface. You get real-time tracking, with a clear overview of the status of financial statements (in progress or delivered). All of this is supported by a dedicated, simple, and intuitive interface that you can access without having to use the calculation tool directly.
Average carbon footprint across all projects and by type (series, one-off), as well as the average CO2e-per-minute ratio.
Sort your projects by production company, time period, status, or internal reference number, then download the aggregated reports in Excel or CSV format.
Connect Carbulator to your tools using our API
Soon, Carbulator will offer an API that allows you to connect your business tools to our carbon calculation and reporting platform. Stay tuned!
