Nintendo Just Bought Its Own Animation Studio

Nintendo’s shock collaboration with Illumination to deliver a couple of new animated Super Mario film just a few years in the past signalled a significant sea change for a video games writer that has, for essentially the most half, largely been reticent to deliver its gaming icons to different media after an explosion of tie-ins within the ‘90s. Now, that might be about to change.

The Verge reports that Nintendo has acquired CG production house Dynamo Pictures, with the intent of renaming it Nintendo Pictures. Dynamo has largely provided support work on various video games, including recently motion capture work on Atlus’ Catherine: Full Body and Persona 5—from the smash hit supernatural RPG franchise that Sega has recently confirmed it now desires to show into exhibits and movies past its myriad anime diversifications—and Kojima Production’s Death Stranding, in addition to media initiatives corresponding to Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance and a number of other episodes of the LGBTQ sports activities anime Yuri!!! On Ice.

It’s a giant step ahead for Nintendo taking the potential of creating its personal animated content material in-house. The take care of Illumination for the Chris-Pratt-starring Mario movie in addition to the Nintendo-adjacent Pokemon reside motion film, Detective Pikachu, in 2019 have been already massive steps ahead for an organization that has, regardless of eons of rumors about initiatives set within the worlds of Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, and different Nintendo hallmarks, largely stayed out of the difference sport within the twenty first century. That wasn’t at all times the case—as Nintendo exploded into gaming dominance within the ‘90s with the NES, SNES, and eventually Nintendo 64, so with it came a swathe of tie-in cartoons and movies, from the classic Super Mario and Zelda cartoons or Captain N: The Game Master, or of course the infamous live-action 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.

Could we about to see a similar explosion on the horizon? We’ll simply have to attend and see Nintendo’s plans for Nintendo Pictures.

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