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Dec 28, 2023 · When Atlanta’s Adam Reed and Matt Thompson conceived “Archer” in 2009, they pitched it as “Arrested Development” meets James Bond, an adult animated spy spoof.
Jan 20, 2017 · 2016’s Voltron on Netflix isn’t made from cut-up footage, instead featuring completely original animation from Studio Mir that blends CGI with Japanese anime-esque designs and fluid action...
2 season, 19 episodes: 20–28 min. February 9, 2023 August 17, 2023 Dwarf Animation Studio Ended Skull Island: Brian Duffield: 1 season, 8 episodes: 20–26 min. June 22, 2023 Legendary Television Powerhouse Animation Studios Tractor Pants Productions Anime-style series; part of Legendary Entertainment's MonsterVerse Ended Captain Fall: Jon ...
- Housewives Painting Anime Cels
- The Road to Establishing An Individual Style
- New Era For Anime, New Era For The Studio
- The Goose That Laid The Golden Cartoons
- Self-Sufficiency and Complete Isolation
- Kyoani in 2018: 15 Years of Independent Creation
Yoko Hatta, a painter with experience on classic titles like Princess Ribbonat Mushi Production, left the studio and moved to Kyoto after marrying Hideaki Hatta. Once she was there, she gathered a few housewives from the neighborhood with time to kill under the name Kyoto Anime Studio, dedicated to painting cels for Tatsunoko Pro and Pierrot produc...
Proficient as they may have been, it’s impossible to develop much of a unique flavor if all you ever do is handle single elements in other people’s productions. Artists like Takeshi Kusakaestablished themselves as important figures in the studio’s infancy, and yet they were missing any personal flair. This would be a perfectly fine situation if you...
To understand how quickly things escalated after that, you have to keep in mind the changing landscape for anime as a whole. The industry was about to ditch traditional cel production, and despite their roots doing just that, Kyoto Animation seized the opportunity to grow at hand by getting acquainted to the new ways of production before the rest o...
If we’re talking about 2005 KyoAni titles though, the project that had the biggest impact was without a doubt the adaptation of Air. Which means we’ve got to switch protagonists back to Tatsuya Ishihara, who happened to be a big fan of Key visual novels and strongly pushed for this project. As it turns out, Ishihara’s preferences had massive indust...
What do you do when seemingly everything goes right, then? Stick to your path and do more of the same you say? Actually, you scrap your formula for success and make fundamental changes to your output to screw over your fanbase… or at least that’s how people who fell in love with their Kadokawa-era titles like Haruhiand FMPwould like to frame the si...
The latest stage in Kyoto Animation’s evolution is plagued with understated yet meaningful changes. The company’s kept on growing, having recently inaugurated a new building that includes a fancier store and animation Studio 5. As they recently passed the 200 employees landmark, KyoAni are now among the top anime studios in sheer size, let alone re...
Winx Club is an animated series co-produced by Rainbow SpA and later Nickelodeon. [note 1] It was created and directed by Italian animator Iginio Straffi. It premiered on 28 January 2004, becoming a ratings success in Italy and on Nickelodeon networks internationally.
May 11, 2021 · And last fall, Netflix announced a strategic partnership with a number of high-profile Japanese animation studios to produce top-tier anime (including Studio Mir and Mappa, the studio responsible for the recent series Yasuke), broadening the scope of what Netflix Animation means while diversifying the kind of stories they could tell. Thinking ...
Sep 13, 2021 · Powerhouse Animation has been getting close over the past few years with a slew of projects already on Netflix with more to come. The two companies signed a first-look deal in 2021 and below, we’ll walk you through all their projects you can watch right now and what’s coming up.
