JAPANESE multinational video game company, Nintendo has plans to buy a Tokyo-based CG animation company, Dynamo Pictures.
The studio will be rebranded as Nintendo Pictures, according to the announcement made by Nintendo on Thursday, July 14, 2022.
The video game company has agreed to buy 100 percent of outstanding shares of Dynamo in order to speed up its focus on the “development of visual content utilizing Nintendo IP.” They also added that buying Dynamo would
“have only a minor effect on Nintendo’s results for this fiscal year.”
If all conditions are met, the deal is expected to close by October 3, 2022.
Dynamo Pictures which was started in 2011 specializes in CG and animation for video games and television. It has motion capture for Death Stranding, Persona 5, Monster Hunter: World and CG for Final Fantasy XIII-2; layout and CG production for anime series like the second season of Netflix’s Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 and Yuri on Ice; and animation for movies like Aya and the Witch. It has previously worked on a series of shorts based on the video game series “Pikmin.”
