FeorgSep 27, 2024 10:17 AM
| Steamworks also produces stop-motion animations. https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/2682/Steamworks http://en.steamworks.cn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsBZ9CElcbkgrTscWtmD0sA |
| Thanks! I'll add new findings to the opening post. As a side note, currently the latest video on their youtube channel is LEGO stop-motion. I've come across maybe one or two brick films made by Japanese studios, but have found none in the database. I just remember one fake commercial, but apparently it was made digitally. It doesn't seem to be a common technique in Japan, and maybe it also doesn't qualify on the basis of character creation requirement (which is inconsistent anyway). They do have works that aren't currently on MAL, so we could try submitting some. |
| dwarf Staff: Tsuneo Goda Director / Character Design (Founder of dwarf) https://myanimelist.net/people/20570/Tsuneo_Gouda Takuma Aomatsu Director / Character Design https://myanimelist.net/people/47515/Takuma_Aomatsu Iku Ogawa Director / Character Design https://myanimelist.net/people/54488/Iku_Ogawa Jun Negishi Animator / Character Design Shuhei Harada Animator / Arts Rikuto Konagaya Animator Kan Sugiki TOKUSATSU Dept. DOP / VFX Yusuke Miyazaki TOKUSATSU Dept. Camera / VFX Artist Marie Shioda TOKUSATSU Dept. 2D / VFX Artist Remon Yoshikawa TOKUSATSU Dept. CG / VFX Artist Noriko Matsumoto Producer Yuriko Okada Producer Ayano Kinashi Producer Hiroki Ito Producer Kanako Nishiyama Associate Producer / PR Takana Goda Production Manager Masanori Iwasaki Production Manager Ayame Uchida Production Manager Misa Kiuchi Production Manager Nao Aoki Production Assistant Tomoko Kitazaki Production Secretary / Manager Yukika Kawagishi Production Secretary / Manager Robins（ロビン）：Management staff Masahito Kobayashi Director / Character Design https://myanimelist.net/people/52514/Masahito_Kobayashi Hirokazu Minegishi Animator P.S. The staff look like their characters on the staff page: https://dw-f.jp/service/index.html?page=staff Just click on the names to see actual photos of some of the staff. |
| Should Taiyo Kikaku also be listed here? They do have this entry: https://myanimelist.net/anime/49099/Taiyo_Kikakus_49th_Anniversary_Movie But it seems they are not yet listed as a company in the DB. https://myanimelist.net/company?q=Taiyo+Kikaku (Already in the DB. Thanks!) They were involved in some stop-motion and other entries in the DB. Note: not everything in this list are stop-motion. https://www.taiyokikaku.com/en/ It looks like they work closely with TECARAT as the titles above are on TECARAT's producer page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/2178/Tecarat P.S. I feel like I've seen some of the works in Kanjigram... https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ktqkPR2ONAE-8fQ17PboToztUFziSHj&si=yR14XdLfbcYsRt61 P.P.S. I discovered plenty of interesting MVs and CMs thanks to the site. |
IridescentJauneSep 23, 2024 10:21 PM
| I had a look at Taiyo Kikaku's website at some point, and it looks like they're a production company that may use different studios. Their main products are live-action commercials and music videos. The Tecarat website has the Taiyo Kikaku email address and copyright markings. So even if Tecarat was founded independently (not certain), they've now been acquired by Taiyo Kikaku. And for example on the TK page for one of the Metamon clips they take credit for animation which was done by Tecarat, so it's pretty likely that Tecarat is a part of the bigger company now: https://www.taiyokikaku.com/works/other/metamon?en I do think they ought to have a producer page on MAL. I wouldn't be surprised if everything done by Tecarat had Taiyo Kikaku as the producer. This one on the list doesn't look like it's animated, but just puppetry done with the help of strings & sticks, so I think it wouldn't be accepted to the db: https://www.taiyokikaku.com/works/other/gyoro?en The same perhaps here, though I'm less certain since I'm not sure how they moved the buck: https://www.taiyokikaku.com/works/web/gkb?en |
| I was updating my notes... I found this on the site: TAIYO KIKAKU's 49th Anniversary Short Movie https://www.taiyokikaku.com/newsentry/2910?en “TECARAT,” a division of TAIYO KIKAKU So that's why they appear together in most productions. --- Alright. I don't think everything I gathered in the list above would be accepted, anyways. |
| Added https://myanimelist.net/people/10541/Kousuke_Sugimoto to the list of directors. He uses all kinds of styles besides stop-motion. Our spreadsheet currently has 5 works by him, but I've only seen a fraction of his music videos, so there might be more. Currently I try to watch at least 5 shorts or music videos each day (on weekends could be more), so it might take a while before I've checked out everything, but eventually I'll get there. |
| Just updated the Taiyo Kikaku list above with labels: Stop-motion (SM), 2D, CG, etc. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2166900&id=71695245 Crossed off those that are in the DB. Also, included links to DB entries. Will try to submit some later on... |
IridescentJauneSep 22, 2024 6:25 PM
| Thanks, I've removed the titles which are not stop-motion from our list of things to be submitted. Looks much more manageable now. |
KwanthemasterSep 20, 2024 11:44 AM
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| Thanks, I'll add those to the list except I'll look into Saigo no Shudan more carefully, since of their medium-length list of works only 2 are currently in our club relations. I'll add Taiyo Kikaku and Nice Boat Animation in the section with Geidai Animation, Gakken and Shanghai Animation who use other techniques. That way the list can be used to browse studios which are predominantly stop-motion. I checked the home pages of these additions, and at least Studio Placebo and Shadow Steps have titles that are not on their MAL pages, possibly not in the database, so I'll list those in the submissions thread to be checked out: Studio Placebo: https://studio-placebo.jp/works_category/stopmotionanimation/ Shadow Steps: https://yuyustopmotion.wixsite.com/yuyu/films I also had a look at the studios on the spreadsheet, and this one was also missing with 5 entries: https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/375/IToon Also adding as a special case https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/1055/Yamamura_Animation_Inc since Yamamura used different techniques, but he does have 7 entries on the list. There are still a few studios there mentioned which only have 1 or 2 titles which are not on the list. Maybe I should create a separate section for them; there are some which only have 1 title on MAL, but also some that have produced mostly other kinds of stuff. I'm thinking it's possible they have more stop-motion to be discovered that hasn't been submitted here, so it might be worth listing them somewhere in case we want to keep an eye on them. [edit: done] |
FeorgSep 20, 2024 1:34 PM
| Added: https://myanimelist.net/people/77531/Katsuo_Takahashi He has only two titles on MAL, but he was a stop-motion pioneer at least from the 60s onwards, and founded the company Tokyo Central Production. His daughter frequently posts on the Facebook page dedicated to the studio: https://www.facebook.com/TokyoCentralProduction https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2023/08/katsuo-takahashi-featured-event.html More details in this possible submissions post. |
| https://myanimelist.net/people/78619/Shigeru_Okada has been added to the db, so I'm adding him to our list. So far there are no works listed, but he's worked as an animator on some recent dwarf projects (Rilakkuma) and has a long history of creating independent stop-motion animation. More details in the submissions thread. I also added little comments to the directors list so that we can see at a glance at least the period when they were active and maybe the genres they worked in. |
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