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Nintendo Pictures Co., Ltd. (formerly Dynamo Pictures, Inc.) is a Japanese animation studio owned by Nintendo that develops "visual content" using Nintendo properties.
History[]
Dynamo Pictures logo.
The company was founded by Hiroshi Hirokawa on March 18, 2011, in Tokyo, Japan under the name of Dynamo Pictures.
Nintendo announced their intent to acquire Dynamo Pictures and change its name to Nintendo Pictures on July 14, 2022, citing the focus of the company to strengthen the planning and production structure of visual content. The deal closed on October 3, with the company becoming a full subsidiary of Nintendo, as well as adopting its new name. Many fans of the 2006 video game Elite Beat Agents noticed that a mission in the game references a then-fictional company called Nintendo Pictures.
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Prior to its acquisition and renaming by Nintendo, Dynamo worked on a lot of video game-related works. Those listed here are limited to the ones using Nintendo's own IPs and 3rd party games that were released on a Nintendo platform at some point.
- Opoona (2007)
- Metroid: Other M (2010)
- The Last Story (2011)
- LovePlus+ - Nintendo DS (2011)
- Pikmin Short Movies - 3DS/Wii U (2014)
- Devil's Third - Wii U (2015)
- Monster Hunter Stories - 3DS (2016)
- Catherine - Motion capture from the original 2011 version - reused in the 2019 Nintendo Switch version
- Persona 5 - Motion capture for the original 2016 version. Reused on the 2022 Nintendo Switch version.
Game Development[]
After Nintendo's acquisition of the company, the company was used to assist Nintendo-developed titles. These include:
References[]
External links[]
- Nintendo Pictures at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Official Website (JP)
- Dynamo Pictures Website (JP)