Fundraising Begins on Kickstarter for Practical English Materials Collection for Studying Anime!

Fundraising has begun on the American-born crowdfunding site Kickstarter for a collection of valuable information that explains the behind-the-scenes details on production of the anime Santa Company. The fundraising period will end on Oct. 30.

Santa Company successfully completed a Kickstarter fundraising campaign back in January of this year. The work is a special animation themed after Christmas that was born from a gathering of voice stars and creatives in Japan. The promoter of the campaign, Kenji Itoso, bases his style on that of famous director Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli and has a long and varied list of experience including working on Transformers: Animated and Yu-Gi-Oh. The writer on Santa Company is Naohiro Fukushima who also worked on 009 Re:Cyborg and Eden of the East, and the director is Yumi Kamakura of Pokémon and Eureka Seven fame.

A highlight of the materials collection is that it’s a teaching aid to learn new techniques for those who want to seriously draw while also being reading material for fans of the anime to enjoy while learning about the inside stories of the anime’s production. In addition to data that follows the production process of the anime including storyboards, backgrounds, and various documents, there is also a direction map drawn out and explanations of the different software used with a focus on Adobe, all included on a DVD-ROM (compatible on Windows and Mac). After fundraising is completed, production will advance with a projected completion date of June 2015.

Director Itoso had this to say on the Kickstarter page: “Through this work, I hope that people will come to have a deeper understanding of the anime culture of Japan.”

[Art of Making Santa Company - A Complete Guide]
Chapter 1: Various Types of Occupations and Job Details
Chapter 2: Proposal
Chapter 3: Script/Plot Structure/World Building
Chapter 4: Character Design
Chapter 5: How to Draw Characters Using Adobe Photoshop
Chapter 6: Background Settings
Chapter 7: Storyboard
Chapter 8: Layout (Structure)
Chapter 9: Key Frames
Chapter 10: Background Art
Chapter 11: Animation
Chapter 12: Finishing Process/Color Model/Color balance
Chapter 13: Filming (Making the Video)
Chapter 14: Complete Production Progress of the Animation

Art of Making Santa Company - A Complete Guide Kickstarter Page
Santa Company Official Site
Santa Company Official Facebook

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Kickstarter Project: Santa Company: http://urx.nu/ctf4
Kickstarter Project: Santa Company: http://urx.nu/ctf4
Santa Company Key-frame Animation / Chapter of Departure
Santa Company Key-frame Animation / Chapter of Departure
Santa Company (No Dialogue Ver.) / Chapter of Departure
Santa Company (No Dialogue Ver.) / Chapter of Departure
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