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NEWS: Forbes Covers ADV President




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Animefan16



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:45 pm Reply with quote
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That's why ADV has begun making its own content. Conceptual artists in Houston and animators in Japan and South Korea are now at work on 26 half-hour episodes of Mutineer's Moon, based on a sci-fi pulp novel that Ledford and Greenfield read a decade ago. Premise: that the moon is really a disguised spaceship from a distant star that, after a botched mutiny, has sat dormant for 50,000 years, its crew having abandoned ship for Earth. When a wayward astronaut gets sucked inside the ship and discovers the truth, the battle begins for its control


So ADV is now making their own anime, huh?
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beverins



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:00 pm Reply with quote
I trust that they will concentrate on story, and not try to "second guess" what gives "anime" its look and feel. Leave that to the artistic directors, which should have free reign.

Rather like Teen Titans or that spy show on Miguzi - they can TRY, but they just.... can't... seem.... to.... get the essence of Japanese aesthetics. To me, why bother trying, do your own stuff. I would love to see ADV make an animated series that fused the best of American comic book design with Japanese skills at composition and storyboarding, then bring some of the skills of the best Japanese and US animators to draw the thing without cutting corners. Use Lightwave 3D's celshader, and you wouldnt even have to draw countless frames and concentrate on getting the animations right - just animate it in celshade mode like in GITS:SAC or the new Appleseed movie.
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Sword of Whedon



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:15 pm Reply with quote
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So ADV is now making their own anime, huh?


They've been doing it for quite awhile, lots of co-productions. The SIN OVA and the Lady Death movie as well as Farscape and BGC 2041(both in development hell)

If it's concieved in Houston, it's not anime
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Renaisance Otaku



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:38 am Reply with quote
Is it me, or does this article make him sound, well, evil? I mean, selling a video game system he aquired for 150 for 1,500? I know that was some time ago, but it doesn't inspire the "we do this for the fans" stance ADV tries to take. Business is business I guess.

[q]If it's concieved in Houston, it's not anime[/q]

I agree there. Hopefully, they'll realize this, and not try to sour things.
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michelle



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:59 am Reply with quote
I was shocked at the description of Ledford's "entrepreneurial" start too. Sounds like scamming gamer fans to me. That's what earns you respect in the corporate world I suppose.

Also interesting to read about ADV's efforts in bringing over DHY and the Japanese company's understandable concerns about an unknown distributing it. Nowadays DHY would fetch a pretty sum =)
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Animefan16



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:06 pm Reply with quote
Here's a link to the Mutineer''s Moon website:

http://www.mutineersmoon.com
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Ataru



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:31 pm Reply with quote
Forbes Article wrote:
the network's (Cartoon Network) late-night Adult Swim block offers the racier and more violent stuff that is standard fare on the Anime Network.


Confused Racier and more violent. I know I haven't watch AS for the longest time, but I'm sure if they show stuff like Samurai X and Chobits, it will have more then a couple of things cut. I guess they only show like Azumanga Daioh and Angelic Layer.
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tcov



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:59 am Reply with quote
If I'm not mistaken, it was Ledford and Williams worked on Devil Hunter Yohko in a house or apartment, not even in a professional studio. It was quite a treat and that show rocked!
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dlw
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:52 pm Reply with quote
Actually all four titles you list, Azumanga Daioh, Angelic Layer, Samurai X and Chobits are showing on the Anime Network. If you want to see them bug your cable company to carry the Anime Network.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:55 pm Reply with quote
tcov wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, it was Ledford and Williams worked on Devil Hunter Yohko in a house or apartment, not even in a professional studio. It was quite a treat and that show rocked!


Sorta. We worked on DHY in my living room. But we just did the translation, subtitling/timing and such there. Once we had that all together we went to a studio to produce the actual master. That was a fun time. All of us, sitting down in one room to work on the show. Can't get us all into even one building these days. Smile
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Ataru



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:01 pm Reply with quote
dlw wrote:
Actually all four titles you list, Azumanga Daioh, Angelic Layer, Samurai X and Chobits are showing on the Anime Network.

Ahh, yeah, I kind of check the site yesterdya before I started to list titles at ramdom (Note that both Daioh and Layer were back to back. Razz), but I hope AN will be on DirecTV before the years end (or atleast when I get back.)
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