Anime planning and production company Twin Engine (production for Vinland Saga, Dororo, Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku) announced on Monday that it has established two new studios: Studio Chromato and Crew-Cell. Both new studios are located in Tokyo.
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Longtime animator and director Shingo Yamashita (director of Pokémon: Twilight Wings, Blossom’s Dream; scriptwriter and storyboard director for the opening sequences of the first season of Jujutsu Kaisen) is the representative director at Studio Chromato. Producer Kazuki Enami (I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, FLCL Alternative, Gatchaman Crowds Insights) is a representative director at Crew-Cell.
Studio Chromato plans to bring together staff with the goal of “creating visual expressions that no one has ever seen before.” Crew-Cell’s slogan is “Creation and expression” and its strength lies in in developing digital tools and workflows as well as training human resources.
The studios will be part of Twin Engine’s EOTA studio group. Twin Engine has provided the updated schematics below from the EOTA studio team.
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Twin Engine launched a new studio in January called Nagomi.
Twin Engine founded the EOTA studio group in April 2020. EOTA enables studios to pool resources and work together to produce video content for worldwide distribution, creating short content for the network social and other platforms, and establish a team that can continue to produce works under flexible circumstances. The new studio group allows studios to collaborate and leverage each other’s strengths and expertise. Twin Engine founded two new anime studios in October 2021: BUG FILMS and Scooter Films. The studios are part of the EOTA group.
Representative director Kōji Yamamoto founded Twin Engine in 2014.
Source: Press release