Studios working on Naruto (list)

[artondrius]

Just another mini-guide on how Naruto handles their episodes.

These ~8 teams work in a constant rotation in order to finish a Naruto episode every week. The reason for 8 full teams is because it takes approximately 6-7 weeks to produce *one* average episode, so it is the only way to keep up.

Normally, every rotation contains 4 Pierrot teams, and 4 outsourced teams. So I will use the most reent 8 episodes as the examples below:

#413: Studio Pierrot (group #1)
#414: Studio Drop
#415: Studio Pierrot (group #2)
#416: Studio Mouse
#417: Studio Pierrot (group #3)
#418: Studio Piggy
#419: Studio CJT
#420: Studio Pierrot (group #4) - 420 unconfirmed, but certainly Pierrot

The four outsourced studios (Drop, Mouse, CJT, and Piggy) are all low budget studios, used to save time and money. These 4 teams will NEVER produce a high quality episode, the best they can put out is average quality. This is the reason why about 50% of all episodes are low-to-mediocre quality.

All Studio Pierrot episodes can range greatly from Average, Good, Great, or Excellent quality. It only depends on how much budget they want to put into a given episode. For example, they gave a great budget to episodes 322 and 375 (Madara vs Alliance, Kakashi vs Obito) just to name a couple.


On a side note, episode 420 may contain the 8 gates vs Madara section of the fight. Since 418-419 is already doomed, we have to hope 420 gets a high budget, or else the entire fight will be doomed.

 

[Yanks]

I'm just hoping 8th gate episode doesn't have crappy quality

 

[Sasori]

Let's hope there isn't crappy animation

 

[Joon]

We know how this is going to turn out.

 

[King of Camelot]

Studio Pierrot is gonna release crap animation because the fanboys will eat it up either way.

 

[Angelic.]

interesting

 

[artondrius]

We know how this is going to turn out.

Is that because I just told you how it is going to turn out? haha. 418/419 are both going to be mediocre *at best*

But I think 420 has a good chance, we will have to wait until July 8~ to get the credits

 

[123fire]

I just hipe so , but who will animate this fight? I thought the good animators are away animating Boruto the movie! Who else can do it?

 

[milkydean]

they should be over with the boruto movie already, since the trailer is out and all
i hope they extend the fight

 

[artondrius]

I just hipe so , but who will animate this fight? I thought the good animators are away animating Boruto the movie! Who else can do it?

Boruto is 6 weeks away from theaters. There might be some animators doing finishing touches, but majority of them should be finished.

But I do not think Hiroyuki Yamashita will come back until later, since he is the main director.

 

[artondrius]

I know for a fact that hiroyuki yamashita is one of the animation directors for that movie so I dunno if we will get him for episode 420.

Hiroyuki Yamashita is the main director for the entire movie, just like Hayato Date is the main director for the entire anime.

I don't think he will be back until after the movie is out, because there are things that neeed to be done even after the animation is finished

 

[Darkboy85]

Hiroyuki Yamashita is the main director for the entire movie, just like Hayato Date is the main director for the entire anime.

I don't think he will be back until after the movie is out, because there are things that neeed to be done even after the animation is finished

It's kind of a shame because his style would've fit the fight perfectly IMO. But heh, I'm sure he's not the only really good animator that SP has so either way, I don't really mind

PS: There must've been some stupid bug cause the post you quoted is not here anymore xD

 

[123fire]

Hiroyuki Yamashita is the main director for the entire movie, just like Hayato Date is the main director for the entire anime.

I don't think he will be back until after the movie is out, because there are things that neeed to be done even after the animation is finished

Where is Hirufumi Suzuki???

 

[artondrius]

Where is Hirufumi Suzuki???

The list of animation directors is unknown, but Hirofumi Suzuki is always one of the animation directors for every single movie.

Right now these are the only credits released

Director: Hiroyuki Yamashita
Script/Screenplay: Masashi Kishimoto, Ukyō Kodachi
Music: -yaiba-, Yasuharu Takanashi
Character Design: Masashi Kishimoto, Hirofumi Suzuki, Tetsuya Nishio


I also would not be surprised if Hiroyuki Yamashita is part of both the animation team and storyboard team, the same way he fills all of these roles in his anime episodes.

 

[123fire]

The list of animation directors is unknown, but Hirofumi Suzuki is always one of the animation directors for every single movie.

Right now these are the only credits released

Director: Hiroyuki Yamashita
Script/Screenplay: Masashi Kishimoto, Ukyō Kodachi
Music: -yaiba-, Yasuharu Takanashi
Character Design: Masashi Kishimoto, Hirofumi Suzuki, Tetsuya Nishio


I also would not be surprised if Hiroyuki Yamashita is part of both the animation team and storyboard team, the same way he fills all of these roles in his anime episodes.

Even Hirufumi Suzuki T_T

 

[Billi Tomoose]

so, the eight gates fight is not going to be in next episode i.e. 418? Is it in 420?

 

[sage1999]

I hope Naotoshi Shida animates it so the epic fight would hv high quality graphics and animation like this [video=youtube;aNRvpLgUjSk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNRvpLgUjSk[/video]

 

[Byron123]

Have all the anime studios a fetish with animals?

 

[Reboryushon]

Mr.Takanashi is a master. Without his music, Naruto would not have the emotional impact it has most of the time. I just hope everything is in sync for Gai. Damn, this final arc deserves to go out with a bang.

 

[Beyond the Horizon]

I actually did not know this. That explains why the quality's always changing.