The artist_unknown OPfest: Winter 2024

Welcome to a new column on this blog where we take advantage of the piecewise format to finally produce blogging that embodies the true spirit of the unknown artist. Ideally, future iterations will see increasing variety in participants, as people are matched to their specialties and interests. The nature of openings is such that there will always be something relevant to talk about. This season just happened to be loaded, and thus, a tradition has been born!

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Trying to Bridge the Gap between US and JPN Productions: An Interview with Will Feng

Join us as we interview Will Feng! An animation producer affiliated with Studio Trigger; he produced their video game openings (Shantae, Indivisible, Omega Strikers) along with scouting out overseas artists James Gilleard and Jasmin Lai for BNA. Get to know his early animation experiences working at Titmouse, what motivated him to work in anime in […]

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Trigger Fukuoka’s New Generation: Shunpei Gunyasu, Takuya Saitou, and President Masahiko Otsuka at Otakon 2023

For Otakon 2023, Studio Trigger president Masahiko Otsuka decided bring along two skilled but essentially unknown young animators from the Trigger Fukuoka satellite: Shunpei Gunyasu and Tatsuya Saitou. Otsuka has “big plans” for the digital branch, now hard at work on Dungeon Meshi. What are these new animators like, and how’s it going down down in Kyuushuu?

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Interview with Quintessential Quintuplets TV Special Staff at Otakon 2023

Veteran Shaft animator Kazuya Shiotsuki, freelance screenwriter Keiichirou Ouchi, and TBS producer Junichirou Tanaka came to Washington DC for Otakon last week – July 2023. Otakon was kind enough to arrange for me to sit down and talk with them alongside an interpreter to compensate for my questionable listening comprehension, and they were in turn kind enough to accept.

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