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Netflix is offering scholarships for about ten individuals between the ages of 18 and 25 who are interested in becoming animators. It will be a six month stint at WIT Animator Academy in Tokyo, created by none other than WIT Studio. Japanese fluency is not …Read more »
Low wages are a reality for many people working in anime, especially animators. Jun Sugawara, a CG specialist, has been working for years to change this. He started the Animator Dormitory, a place for animators to live that’s more affordable than regular places to rent. …Read more »
Being a professional animator for anime in Japan may sound glamorous, but the pay often leaves animators in the poverty zone. The Animator Dormitory Project, which both helps animators and gives them a more affordable place to stay, shared a video about a new animator …Read more »
ComicSmart, Inc., a Japanese manga company, is expanding. It has revealed that it’s started up the digital animation studio Qzil.la. If you’re wondering how to pronounce that, it’s the same as the Japanese word for “whale,” which is “kujira.” Shun Fukudome from Production I.G, whose …Read more »
It’s a well-known and unfortunate reality in the anime industry that animators typically earn very little, and directors and character designers often don’t receive royalties. The Japan Times did an article on Jun Sugawara, a CGI animator who’s trying to change this. Sugawara started NPO …Read more »
Vulture has put together a list of “The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation,” and anime plays no small role in the rankings. Vulture explained part of its criteria in the decision process: “Since this list is for an American audience, entries skew toward what influenced …Read more »
This past year Kyoto Animation has been through a number of trials and tribulations. When the company was attacked by an arsonist last year, more than 30 of its employees were killed, and a similar number were injured. The good news, though, is now it’s …Read more »
UNIQLO is always cooking up some awesome anime collabs, and the latest can be found in a new Evangelion UT line of t-shirts. The Japanese collection is up for order via UNIQLO’s online store ahead of the April 17 launch, and those who order between …Read more »
An interview with Terumi Nishii, Part 2 Terumi Nishii is an animation director and character designer who has had a long career working on such hits as One Piece, Pokémon, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable. In April 2019, Terumi made headlines when she …Read more »
At Otakon 2019 in Washington, DC I was able to see an advance screening of Promare, the first theatrical film offering from anime studio TRIGGER. Courtesy of the film’s US distributor, GKIDS Films, I was able to ask them collectively some questions leading up to the …Read more »
The last few years, running on a parallel track to the “regular” Lupin series and specials has been Lupin the IIIrd, a series of movie/OVA thingers helmed by Takeshi Koike, one of the coolest animators in Japan. Now we’ve got some details on the latest …Read more »
Two hundred thousand. That’s roughly how many people crowded into the Tokyo Big Sight each day for three days late last year for the largest fan convention in the world, Comic Market, a.k.a. Comiket. It’s a number that’s hard to really visualize. By comparison, the …Read more »
Despite how well known he is, many fans of Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki haven’t had a chance to see the anime legend in action. This officially changes with the theatrical debut of Never–Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki, a feature-length documentary that offers an inspiring, …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki is a household name at this point, but how many people are aware of the amount of work he puts into his passion for animation? Add the complex new element of CGI into the mix and you have a tale that could only …Read more »
What will be the number of Girlish Number Shura episodes? 0. Feeling some girlish disappointment over here. The anime, which was going to be based on the 4-panel gag manga of the same name, was canceled because of an inability to find enough staff members …Read more »
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