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Nintendo is acquiring Dynamo Pictures a CG company, which will be renamed Nintendo Pictures

IbizaPocholo

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The Tokyo-based company specialises in the production of CG for movies, animation, games and television, as well as motion capture work and video distribution.

Nintendo plans to acquire 100% of Dynamo’s outstanding shares and make it a wholly owned subsidiary, in a deal which is expected to close on October 3.

Following the acquisition, Nintendo plans to rename the company Nintendo Pictures Co, Ltd, at which point it will “focus on development of visual content utilising Nintendo IP”.

n the past the company has produced CG for a number of movies and TV shows, including Yuri on Ice, Aya and the Witch and season two of Netflix‘s Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045.

Though the initial instinct would be to assume this acquisition will result in more Nintendo animated movies and TV series in the future, it should be noted that Dynamo also specialises in developing visual content for games too.

The company worked on the CG in Final Fantasy XIII-2, and has provided motion capture for such titles as Death Stranding, Nier Replicant, Monster Hunter World and Persona 5.

It has also worked with Nintendo in the past. The company helped with the CG cutscenes in Metroid: Other M, and produced a series of Pikmin ‘short movies’ in collaboration with Shigeru Miyamoto for display on Wii U and 3DS.
 

Mister Wolf

Gold Member
I would be down for a Zelda CGI animated series. I'm sure Netflix would buy the rights to it. Of course Xenoblade could use a series as well.
 
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Jinzo Prime

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So in June 2021, Nintendo hires Chris Meledandri, Illumination Animation head, to it's Board of Directors.

In June 2022, we find out that they had created M Brothers Productions and Nintendo Studios in California, but the company was established as early as 2019.

Now we have Nintendo buying an established animation studio.

This shows that Big N is definitely committed to creating new revenue streams for its famous IPs. I think that we're about to get the Nintendo movies, animations, and tv shows fans have been daydreaming about for years!
 

Kataploom

Gold Member
People who saw it said it was...bad. A musical with a song about plumbing.
Well, maybe it was, but having more creative freedom or centralizing that kind of production instead of outsource it could probably be the reason and MAYBE the movie was the inflection point
 

brian0057

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I won't expect Wall-E, Spider-Verse or Arcane levels of quality but If Nintendo can manage to produce animated content half as good as something like How to Train Your Dragon or the first two Kung Fu Panda movies, I'll be a happy camper.
 
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