Draft of training young animator Anime 4 selected for 2011

On Friday, the Association of Japanese animation (JAniCA) creators announced the four works of anime who each receive 38 million yen (about US $470,000) of the "2011 young animator formation project." Like last year, the Group of animation work was 214.5 million yen (US $2.65 million) of the Japanese Government for Cultural Affairs Agency, and distribute most of those funds to studies that are trained in the employment of young animators this year.
11 production companies submitted tenders of proposal for funding, and study of response, Shirogumi and Telecom and Production I.G animated were selected.
Each of the following projects will receive 38 million yen:
Study of response
Director: Hiroshi Kawamata (Otona Joshi not Anime Time "Kawamo o Subelu Kaze")
Producer: Yukari Kiso
Title: "Nankai not Juju" (provisional)
Shirogumi
Director: Ponte Kozutsumi (director of the episode to Rita et Machin)
Producer: Kenichiro Hayafune (Beyblade - film, outline, Les Misérables - Shoujo Cosette)
Title: "shiranpuri"
Telecom animation film
Director: Kazuhide Tomonaga (animation director for Cybersix, Little Nemo - adventures in Morfeo, Sherlock Hound)
Producer: Koji Takeuchi (Chiko, heiress of the Phantom thief, Cybersix, Lupin III: the Fuma conspiracy)
Title: "Buta" (provisional)
Production I.G
Director: Toshihisa Kaiya (character for immortal Grand Prix Designer, ruin explorers)
Producer: Hidekazu Terakawa (immortal Grand Prix, Jin-Roh - Brigade of the Wolf, tales of Vesperia ~ the first strike ~)
Title: "wasurenagumo"
The production of the four original shorts of 24 minutes, each with 38 million yen (about $400,000 in the United States.)(UU.) for expenses, will launch this month until January. Each short animation production is necessary to rely on Japan, and professionals will impart their knowledge to young animators through on-the-job training. One of the reasons the Agency of Cultural Affairs is supporting this initiative is the concern that most of the Japanese animation process is being outsourced foreign, causing a fall of opportunities to teach animation in Japan techniques.
The trailer for four projects of anime from last year is transmitted online:
Update Name of the corrected Shirogumi. Thank you, rti9.
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Independent animator Nobuhiro Aihara passed away

Animator Nobuhiro Aihara died on April 30 on a trip in a hotel in Denpasar in Bali, Indonesia. He was 66. It was discovered by a fellow traveller at the hotel, and the local police determined that he died due to natural causes.

Aihara was born in Kanagawa Prefecture during World War II and since the mid-1960s, he worked on Obotchama kun, Moomins and other titles in the studies of anime, such as the production of study zero and influential Oh. However, he became best known in the communities of local and international art for his work in experimental, independent animation. His one-man animation sample travelled from Tokyo and Kyoto to Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany and the Czech Republic. Among his works were "Stone", "Private," "eizo (kage)," "Line" and "Rain".

Aihara served as a judge in Seoul and Hiroshima international animation festivals, and also taught as a Professor of cinema at the Kyoto University of art and design.

Sources: Yomiuri, Sankei, Jiji Press, Anido
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