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NEWS: Anime Studio Production I.G Forms Canadian Film Subsidiary




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Divineking



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:02 pm Reply with quote
Well this sounds potentially interesting. Guess we'll see what kind of productions come out of it...
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ParaChomp



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:12 pm Reply with quote
This is surprising. Marathon's productions come to mind but this is even better. As stated, we'll see what comes out of this, hopefully good and not more crappy 'toons by Canucks.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:26 pm Reply with quote
ParaChomp wrote:
This is surprising. Marathon's productions come to mind but this is even better. As stated, we'll see what comes out of this, hopefully good and not more crappy 'toons by Canucks.


I'm curious as to what you are referring. To my knowledge there aren't all that many Canadian produced cartoons out there.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:42 pm Reply with quote
Meanwhile, Ocean Group celebrates.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:05 am Reply with quote
ParaChomp wrote:
This is surprising. Marathon's productions come to mind but this is even better. As stated, we'll see what comes out of this, hopefully good and not more crappy 'toons by Canucks.


Reboot is not crap.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:31 am Reply with quote
Sunday Silence wrote:
ParaChomp wrote:
This is surprising. Marathon's productions come to mind but this is even better. As stated, we'll see what comes out of this, hopefully good and not more crappy 'toons by Canucks.


Reboot is not crap.


Indeed and neither is Beast Wars. In fact, both are quite awesome. Hence the reason I wondered what ParaChomp was talking about. Unless there are a bunch of other Canadian animated shows that I'm not familiar with?
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:40 am Reply with quote
Methinks Production I.G. wants to take advantage of the subsidies provided by the Canadian government to Canadian-labored animated productions.
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I suspect that this has something to do with the fact that there are incentives for animated/CGI production in Canada. Oops, I see enurtsol beat me to the informational punch. In any case, Production I.G is one of my favourite anime studios so welcome to the Great White North, peeps!
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:08 am Reply with quote
ikillchicken wrote:
Sunday Silence wrote:
ParaChomp wrote:
This is surprising. Marathon's productions come to mind but this is even better. As stated, we'll see what comes out of this, hopefully good and not more crappy 'toons by Canucks.


Reboot is not crap.


Indeed and neither is Beast Wars. In fact, both are quite awesome. Hence the reason I wondered what ParaChomp was talking about. Unless there are a bunch of other Canadian animated shows that I'm not familiar with?
Off the top of my head, 6Teen, Total Drama Whatever-the-hell-it-is-this-season and that one about surfers.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:44 am Reply with quote
Canada has a long history of quality animation. It's just that lately what the networks want is the cheap stuff. Mainfraime Entertainment, which produced Reboot, was bought up years ago by Rainmaker so it no longer exists. Nelvana has produced a lot of garbage but it's also a leading world animation producer.

I'm surprised it's Ottawa. That's not a place one thinks of for animation, let alone anime. I would have expected Vancouver would have been the most likely place with Toronto after that.
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Lycosyncer



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:43 am Reply with quote
Production I.G is forming a Canadian subdivision? Awesome! They make great quality stuff and I definitely be interested in seeing what they make with their Canadian partners and as long as it's better in quality than all of those Marathon shows, then they got a fellow Canadian fan like me to follow them all the way!
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Blood- wrote:
I suspect that this has something to do with the fact that there are incentives for animated/CGI production in Canada. Oops, I see enurtsol beat me to the informational punch. In any case, Production I.G is one of my favourite anime studios so welcome to the Great White North, peeps!
Being there is one thing. Actually doing something worth buying from there is yet another we eagerly anticipate. Maybe anime involving Native Americans and not in the stereotypical Western way either. That would be nice. But I have a deep suspicion anime will have nothing to do with any of it. Wink
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Polycell wrote:
ikillchicken wrote:
Sunday Silence wrote:
ParaChomp wrote:
This is surprising. Marathon's productions come to mind but this is even better. As stated, we'll see what comes out of this, hopefully good and not more crappy 'toons by Canucks.


Reboot is not crap.


Indeed and neither is Beast Wars. In fact, both are quite awesome. Hence the reason I wondered what ParaChomp was talking about. Unless there are a bunch of other Canadian animated shows that I'm not familiar with?
Off the top of my head, 6Teen, Total Drama Whatever-the-hell-it-is-this-season and that one about surfers.

http://www.elliottanimation.com/content/?page=productions
"Total Drama Island"(and sequels)
"6Teen"
"Stoked"
All animated in Flash by this Canadian studio. YMMV
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:13 pm Reply with quote
ikillchicken wrote:
ParaChomp wrote:
This is surprising. Marathon's productions come to mind but this is even better. As stated, we'll see what comes out of this, hopefully good and not more crappy 'toons by Canucks.


I'm curious as to what you are referring. To my knowledge there aren't all that many Canadian produced cartoons out there.

You'd be surprised how much is there up north. Much of it is to placate the CRTC rulings on "Canadian Content" as there has to be a certain percentage of original, homegrown works on TV versus American imports and elsewhere (though many anime dubbed in Canada tend to skirt the rules easily).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR7jD15-IWQ

enurtsol wrote:
Methinks Production I.G. wants to take advantage of the subsidies provided by the Canadian government to Canadian-labored animated productions.

I'm sure that's the only reason (I've followed Canadian Film/TV production long enough to see the reason).

penguintruth wrote:
Meanwhile, Ocean Group celebrates.

Well at least they have another reason to live, though I'm sure Japanese cartoons aren't the only biz they have.

writerpatrick wrote:
Canada has a long history of quality animation. It's just that lately what the networks want is the cheap stuff. Mainfraime Entertainment, which produced Reboot, was bought up years ago by Rainmaker so it no longer exists. Nelvana has produced a lot of garbage but it's also a leading world animation producer.

Their earliest work was far better in my book (if anyone remembers specials like "Cosmic Christmas" or "The Devil & Daniel Mouse").

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I'm surprised it's Ottawa. That's not a place one thinks of for animation, let alone anime. I would have expected Vancouver would have been the most likely place with Toronto after that.

There's always Montreal if they bother dealing with the Francophones!
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enurtsol



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Mohawk52 wrote:
Maybe anime involving Native Americans and not in the stereotypical Western way either.


As opposed to the stereotypical Japanese way? Laughing
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