Topcraft

Topcraft
Industry Animated films, Animated television shows
Successors Studio Ghibli
Founded 1971
Founder Toru Hara
Defunct June 15, 1986
Headquarters Japan
Products Anime, animated feature films, Television animated series

Topcraft (トップクラフト, also written "Top Craft") was a Japanese anime studio established in 1971 by former Toei Animation producer Toru Hara. It was famous for doing animation for hand-drawn animation titles by Rankin/Bass and for the production of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Macross: Do You Remember Love?. The studio went bankrupt and dissolved in June 15, 1986 essentially splitting the studio in half, Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata bought the studio when laying off most of its animation staff and changed its name to Studio Ghibli.. Topcraft's animators later formed another studio called Pacific Animation Corporation to continue to work with Rankin/Bass on shows like ThunderCats and Silverhawks but eventually joined Ghibli once the studio was bought out by Disney and became Walt Disney Animation Japan.[1] Some animators like Tsuguyuki Kubo went to work for other anime studios such as Studio Pierrot working on Naruto and Bleach for them, in the end the buy out of Topcraft made the studio into the birth of Studio Ghibli. Topcraft's founder Toru Hara became Studio Ghibli's first manager.[2]

Anime

Production

Co-productions

with Eiken
with Tatsunoko

Contributive works

Non-anime

Cooperative

Animation

(with Rankin/Bass)

(with other Studios)

References

  1. ↑ http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fedgrame/english.htm,
  2. ↑ http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/miyazaki/miyazaki_biography.txt

External links

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