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EXCLUSIVE: Japan’s Bandai Namco Filmworks is teaming pinch six starring animation studios connected short movie project, Pursuing The Future, to showcase nan latest technologies and imaginative ideas successful Japanese animation.
Led by Sunrise Studios, nan task brings together six original 3D CG animated short films, each 1 produced by Bandai Namco and a different studio. The six shorts person been commissioned pinch nan purpose of “carrying nan history of animation guardant into nan future”.
The first 2 shorts – produced by Sunrise Studios and Yamatoworks – person already been completed.
Dice With Demon, produced by Sunrise Studios, is directed by Hidekazu O’Hara, who worked arsenic a cardinal animator connected Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira and Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind. The movie has been inspired by Japan’s celebrated classical illustrated scrolls.
Set successful Heian-era Japan, nan communicative revolves astir 3 noblemen drinking successful a rain-slicked pavilion wherever 1 confesses that he played a high-stakes crippled pinch a demon to resurrect his precocious wife.
The 2nd short, Metafear, is produced by Yamatoworks and directed by Shuhei Morita, whose Possessions (Tsukumo) was nominated for nan 86th Academy Awards successful nan Animated Short Film category. Other talent connected nan movie includes Tatsuyuki Tanaka overseeing characteristic and ocular design.
Described arsenic a fast-paced fantasy, nan movie centres connected a woman haunted by nightmares and nan fears that return style from them.
“Created by immoderate of Japan’s astir distinguished seasoned animators and exceptionally talented creators, these 2 films correspond a uncommon task that could only person been realized astatine this very infinitesimal successful time,” Bandai Namco said successful a statement.
Details of nan remaining 4 films person yet to beryllium revealed, though Bandai Namco besides said “participation by internationally acclaimed creators has already been confirmed”. The task is being presented astatine Annecy International Animation Film Festival successful France adjacent week.
