Ammonite (design group)
Design studio " Ammonite " (English name: Studio "Ammonite") was founded in Tatsunoko Production in 1983 with the intention of reviving the independent section " Character Room " which the founder Tatsuo Yoshida directly controlled. Originating from a Design division[1] as design group. Mainly responsible for work related to the series program of animation, especially television animation , work corresponding to mechanical design in Japanese-made English words and setting text related to the same design.
Staff consistently consisted of three members: the leader Hiroshi Ogawa (小川 浩), Hiroshi Okura (大倉 宏俊), and Takashi Ono (小野 隆) from the establishment to the dissolution.
Later, he became independent from Tatsunoko Production as "Studio Santa Claus" [2][3][4]and participated in the first production work of Production I.G " Zillion (TV series) " and so on. [2][3][5]
"Studio Santa Claus" disbanded after the completion of "Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato", each staff personally worked as an individual Mechanic design related to various animation productions afterwards (which also undertook product design after the "Santa Claus" dissolution) they are joining.
Origin of naming and episode
The name of studio Ammonite is not the Ammonoidea of Cephalopods , but it is a masochistic nomenclature arising from experiences of struggling due to inexperience with regard to the production work in the initial design division start-up process, "The person without drafts" in Kanji "案も無い人" transfer to Katakana notation ( "Ammoni" (H) ito ", 「アンモナイ "ひ" ト」). As described above, the production work was done in the following role division[1][5] .
- Summary of design, Hiroshi Ogawa
- Hiroyoshi Okura, who controls the function
- Takatoshi Ono, responsible for the action presentation
Their work sharing and actual design production situation remained in the eyes of the main production staff of the " Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross ", and information, judgment, and actions of ﾞthe Zor peopleﾞ,or ﾞthe Robotech mastersﾞ in the Robotech universe (" The way to control attracts corresponds to the role of Monozygotic triplets is shared, their works sharing is referred to. [6]
Major art works
Described in chronological order of participation.
- Okawari-Boy Starzan S
- Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
- Alpen Rose
- Zillion (TV series)
- Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato
- Tekkaman Blade (Representative 'Hiroshi Ogawa' in the name. Mechanical setting)
- Darius Gaiden
- Tekkaman Blade II (Representative 'Hiroshi Ogawa' in the name. Mechanical setting assistance)
- Robotech II: The Sentinels: Designed such as The Sentinels (Various types of ground combat vehicles [7]of the United-Earth Expeditionary Force , UEEF Earth and Guardian mode ( or GERWALK , Ground Effective Reinforcement of Winged Armament with Locomotive Knee-joint ) transformable VTOL communication aircraft [8] , Enemy Invid side unmanned combat mechanism "Inoganic" [9]. )
Footnotes and sources
- ^ a b Bi-monthly publication Animec 1984 July issue, page 80 andBi-monthly publication Animec 1984 July issue, page 81 - "Mechanical designer's view <5> - Specialist"(Accessdate : February 15 2019)
- ^ a b Tri Charger - Robotech Chronicles(Accessdate : February 16 2019)
- ^ a b Tri Charger (Transformation Sequence) - Robotech Chronicles(Accessdate : February 16 2019)
- ^ Separate volume Animedia Red photon Zillion perfection version
- ^ a b Studio Ammonite - Robotech Chronicles(AccessdateFebruary 16 2019)
- ^ Shogakkan This is animation. The Select ⑩ "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross Special Guidebook" Main Staff Roundtable Discussion Page 109
- ^ Ground-based gravity limited area / Outside aerospace transport correspondence / Mobile front movement Unitbase (GMU) - Robotech · Chronicle(Accessdate : February 16 2019)
- ^ VERITECH Fighter Master File SVR-1 Voyer , SVT-1 Vixen - Robotech Chronicles(Accessdate : February 16 2019)
- ^ Inoganic (Invid) - Robotech Chronicles(Accessdate : February 16 2019)
External links
- Ogawa Hiroshi - Anime @ wiki - At Wiki (小川 浩 - アニメ@wiki - アットウィキ)(Japanese language)
- Profile of Ogawa Hiroshi - allcinema (Japanese language)
- Hiroyoshi Okura - Anime @ wiki - At Wiki (大倉宏俊 - アニメ@wiki - アットウィキ) (Japanese language)
- Profile of Hiroyoshi Okura - allcinema (Japanese language)
- Takatoshi Ono - Anime @ wiki - At Wiki (小野隆嗣 - アニメ@wiki - アットウィキ) (Japanese language)
- Profile of Takatoshi Ono - allcinema (Japanese language)
