Nintendo Animation Studios

Nintendo Animation Studios is an in-house animation company, which is known for providing animation services for series and previously movies. It stands out for its techniques of using Ink and Digital Painting animation since its inception, also for using various software that other animation studios do not use, this makes the animation take a week (two weeks until 2004), also apart from traditional animation, He also produces CGI animation and his own animated shorts. In 2006 he founded his film animation studio, which made Nintendo Animation Studios solely focused on animated television shows.

History
In 1985 Nintendo Studios ordered to manufacture animation software for a new company, the software was ambitious for that time, but Nintendo Studios said that it would send experts in animation and software, in order to have more hope to finish in 1987, currently it is not known Which company manufactured the animation software. In 1987 the manufacture of the software was specified, with it a total of 900 computers were sent, and with it the new company was founded, which was called Nintendo Animation Studios, the series that premiered in 1988, were animated in a total of 2 weeks, when. The company improved its software over time and with it changed computers in order to continue with its animation process. The company changed computers every 6 years, currently the processors they use are latest generation Intel processors.

Animation Process
The animation process begins when the main production company sends the main elements for the animation (such as the Storyboard) all the animation is completed in one week, this is done simultaneously with all the series in production (that's why the more than 1000 employees) to the The same is done simultaneously with the episodes in production, with a different team, but with the same animation director, this so that the animation style that the series has is not lost. When a series starts from scratch, everything is drawn from scratch, such as characters and backgrounds (currently the backgrounds are done in cel-shading, so they haven't been drawn since 2005) and when the rest of the episodes are made, the drawings and backgrounds they are recycled, this to save time, but when new backgrounds and characters are introduced, they are obviously made from scratch. During 2005 the animation had a drastic change, being more detailed in the backgrounds, characters and the sky, even in unimportant and small objects, this improved more when Nintendo Studios changed the aspect ratio to 16:9, this improved much more the animation, being more detailed, and the clouds in the sky became more detailed and no longer as solid as they were before.

Trivia

 * Nintendo Animation Studios provides some animation software to some companies, such as Rough Draft Korea, Wang Film Productions, among other animation companies (especially the shadow system)
 * It is the only animation company that has always used ink and digital paint throughout its history.
 * They currently use 5TB hard drives and latest generation Intel processors.
 * At the end of the 80s and during the 90s they simulated an animation made in cells, in order to facilitate production more, and spend less space on disks
 * During the late 1980s and 1990s they used computers that were very similar in style to the PCs of the late 1990s.
 * The motherboards of the computers were very expensive, but in the end they managed to pay for them to manufacture the company's PCs (this during the late 80's)
 * Computers and animation systems were provided by Silicon Graphics Inc.
 * According to John Griffin in 2014, Silicon Graphics was involved in the development of advanced digital animation software, although it was not the only one, but there were several, it is unknown which companies were
 * It has had a long association with Intel, who has also provided its most powerful processors during its history.
 * For the beginning of 2014, it used a 1TB storage disk
 * In 2017, 5TB disks began to be used
 * According to John Griffin, before the foundation of the company they were taught to use this animation technique, with test versions of the software that were still being finished, this lasted from 1985 to 1987, and it took place in a building in Los Angeles
 * To animate an episode of a television series, 15 to 25 animators are needed, out of the more than 1,000 in the company.
 * It is known that the first disk they used had a storage of 1.5 GB, something that was complicated at that time, the company that manufactured it is not known, but it was an HDD disk
 * Series take longer when they first go into production than when a new season is produced, because you have to do everything from scratch for the series.
 * Every time they change computers, they always pass the disks so as not to lose the important content, and when they have to change disks, all the files are transferred to that disk
 * The software is updated by the companies themselves, with the help of others, especially Silicon Graphics until its closure in 2009.
 * Since an unknown year, the production uses apple brand all-in-one computers, and with the Mac OS
 * The main partners of the company are and were, Silicon Graphics, Apple and Intel