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

Dynamo Pictures will strengthen “visual content in the Nintendo group”…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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]

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.

 

[NanaMiku]

Their portfolio is pretty good
anime: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=4648
game: https://www.mobygames.com/company/dynamo-pictures-inc

 

[Mister Wolf]

Their portfolio is pretty good
anime: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=4648
game: https://www.mobygames.com/company/dynamo-pictures-inc

Yeah I liked Kingsglaive FFXV. It was better than the game.

 

[lostinblue]

Yeah I liked Kingsglaive FFXV. It was better than the game.

That's wasn't hard though

 

[Mister Wolf]

That's wasn't hard though

Yeah it was certainly a low bar.

 

[Punished Miku]

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[justiceiro]

Doesn't seems like it's big enough to run animations projects on its own. Not holding my breath.

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What's wrong with you?

 

[Kataploom]

Does this have anything to do with Mario movie delaying?

 

[ManaByte]

Does this have anything to do with Mario movie delaying?

People who saw it said it was...bad. A musical with a song about plumbing.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

Theres more money im gaming than movies, but all these gaming companies want to get into movies.

 

[Griffon]

Good catch Nintendo.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

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]

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

 

[Ezquimacore]

They should make a movie of the hero of time, his final quest and last moments.

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

It's gonna be great for the CDI games and SNES CDROM!

 

[Salty Popsicle]

Future Nintendo movies and TV shows will be competing with the James Cameron Avatar franchise for best CG technology. Can't wait.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Metroid with Zero Suit Samus series

 

[Dream-Knife]

Games that purposefully are very light on story to focus on gameplay....are getting movies and TV shows?

 

[Umbasaborne]

Make mario porn now

 

[Moses85]

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[kiphalfton]

People who saw it said it was...bad. A musical with a song about plumbing.

Wouldn't surprise me if they're trying to imitate Disney's animated movie template.

 

[brian0057]

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.

 

[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

CG cutscenes for their games plz

 

[Kiya's Guard]

Theres more money im gaming than movies, but all these gaming companies want to get into movies.

They are probably in the "why not both" mindset. Big movies still produce a lot of revenue