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Japanese animation studios working with American animations.




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darkchibi07



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:53 pm Reply with quote
Out of curiosity, were there other Japanese animation studios that worked with U.S films besides the Animatrix, the most recent Linkin Park video, and that fight scene in Kill Bill? I've also been hearing stuff that Sunrise is the one who animated Batman Beyond, and Madhouse is the one who animated X-Men Evolution.
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shadow_guyver



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:07 pm Reply with quote
If memory serves, American companies have been sending show over to Japan to be animated for decades. Remember Thundercats? I'm pretty sure it was animated, at least the in-betwwens, in Japan. It's pretty common actually.

Of course I could be totally wrong Rolling Eyes .
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beverins



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:35 pm Reply with quote
Thundercats was an american produced and Japanese animated show. Everything visual you see on Thundercats is invented by Japanese artists (Rankin Bass had the same designer over and over again, they loved his work. You will notice that all the Rankin Bass cartoons look alike - I guess he was on Salary contract)

Look closely at the credits and then fire up some of the better known 80's anime. See any matches?

Transformers was also written in America, yet all the visuals were Japanese. Same for GI Joe. And M.A.S.K. And Pole Position. And Mighty Orbots. And The Littles. etc.

The credits tell you all you need to know, if you couldn't tell by looking at the Japanese particular aesthetics of composition, animation and movement.

I'm sure someone will say I'm wrong, that they were mostly American, blah blah blah... I have never seen any American animators able to "get" the Japanese aesthetic for composition, movement or animation completely. They get close, but never the full monty. Thundercats in particular has this "full monty".
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DaGreatKobe



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:12 am Reply with quote
What about Teen Titans? its seems to have an anime style to it. haven't had the paitence to look at the credit tho. and then again it has 2 versions to the opening theme, and 1 is completely in japanese. so i guess that a give up. can anyone confirm this?
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Requiem



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:04 am Reply with quote
DaGreatKobe wrote:
What about Teen Titans? its seems to have an anime style to it. haven't had the paitence to look at the credit tho. and then again it has 2 versions to the opening theme, and 1 is completely in japanese. so i guess that a give up. can anyone confirm this?


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343314/fullcredits
For the most part you actually see a lot of Western names in the credits for Teen Titans (and the show is primarily a production of WB Animation.) BTW both versions of the theme song are done by Puffy AmiYumi so otherwise there isn't that much of a difference.
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jfrog



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:12 am Reply with quote
I believe The Last Unicorn had lots of Japanese animators working on it, and apparently many of them later worked on Nausicaa and became Ghibli.
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kainzero



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:59 pm Reply with quote
isn't the simpsons animated in korea?

well, it's not japanese... but it's in the general area =P
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Animefan16



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:57 pm Reply with quote
I always thought TT was animated in Korea.
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