Nintendo Is Buying An Animation Studio

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Might Nintendo intend to create some form of animated Nintendoverse? The Japanese gaming behemoth simply introduced it’s shopping for CG animation and movement seize studio Dynamo Pictures, now to be referred to as Nintendo Pictures.

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Dynamo Pictures, primarily based in Tokyo, has been round for 30 years, offering CG work and movement seize for video games and anime. It not too long ago labored on movement seize for Persona 5, Nier Replicant, and Death Stranding, whereas creating pc graphics for the likes of Ghost within the Shell SAC_2045, Studio Ghibli’s Earwig and the Witch, and Nintendo’s personal Pikmin Short Movies.

Nintendo, after all, is at the moment making its first big-screen adaptation in a long time, the animated Super Mario Bros. film, not too long ago delayed into 2023. While there aren’t any public particulars suggesting Dynamo has been concerned with Illumination Entertainment’s manufacturing, the timing of the acquisition is definitely fascinating.

The deal is a whole buy-out, meant to finish by October 3, Nintendo says it’s buying “100 percent of the outstanding shares” so Dynamo turns into “a wholly owned subsidiary to strengthen the planning and production of visual content in the Nintendo group.” The firm additionally, fairly coldly provides, “The Acquisition will have only a minor effect on Nintendo’s results for this fiscal year.” Poor Dynamo, I’m certain it’s a giant deal for its fiscal 12 months.

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It’s price noting that Nintendo instructed Fast Company final 12 months that it was contemplating additional animated content material following the still-untitled Mario film, then a month later added Illumination’s Chris Meledandri to its board of administrators.

Now, after all, this might purely be a technique to deliver the manufacturing and movement seize of Nintendo video games’ introduction animations, cutscenes, and promotional materials, in-house. (We have reached out to Nintendo to ask.) But it’s tempting to hope it may very well be a part of larger ambition for cinematic releases, possibly even some TV reveals primarily based on the corporate’s extraordinary vary of characters.

Because, and I’ve checked, there’s by no means been a Metroid anime. Which is crazy-go-bonkers, proper? (Adi Shankar definitely thinks so. And Dynamo did some post-production work on Other M.) Nor is there an animated sequence primarily based on the misadventures of Superstar Saga’s Fawful, which is the universe’s best oversight.

Perhaps now this may be put proper. Right, Nintendo?

Update: 7/14/22, 1:54 p.m. ET: Nintendo tells Kotaku that “Dynamo Pictures will be producing CG video content based on Nintendo IP, but we have nothing to announce at this point on what exactly they will be involved in.”