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Netflix animation is not only Horse Man and Love Death, the strong hand outside of Disney, it is being swept away. Netflix will work with major animation companies around the world to launch 30 new works with different styles. In contrast to these, Love, Death and Robots is like a half-proposition essay to select new animation partners.
On March 20, Disney announced the official completion of its acquisition of Fox (Disney's $71 billion abacus: the acquisition of Fox officially went into effect, making up for the shortcomings of adult content and channels).
A large part of Disney's heavy acquisition is to win the channel war for streaming. After years of preparation, Disney has created its own streaming troika: ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+, and it's trying to build a Netflix of its own.
Disney's weapons in addition to their own family content with Pixar, the superhero IP acquired from Marvel, Star Wars bought from Lucasfilm, plus Fox's heavy flavor content--- these are not enough.
In order to defeat Netflix and eliminate troubles, Disney even began to recruit executives directly from Netflix to build its own streaming business. For example, Tehmina Jaffer, who was originally responsible for the self-made content strategy such as Netflix's "Narcos", recently jumped to Disney as a senior vice president, responsible for Disney+.
Netflix is not idle, in addition to poaching people from Disney to fight back, it is also cooperating with various powerful people outside the Disney camp, hoping to produce high-quality content that can compete with many strong IP in Disney's hands.
In the field of animation, Netflix's partners include DreamWorks Animation, Hasbro, Nickelodeon, Warner, and major Japanese first-line animation companies. As Disney's own streaming launch approaching, Netflix's home-made space has accelerated significantly, with 30 known animations coming online and planned at the beginning of the year. "Love, Death and Robots," co-produced by "Fight Club" director David Finch and "Deadpool" director Tim Miller, is one of them.
30 new Netflix animations
Compared to these recent and upcoming Netflix animations, Love, Death and Robots is like using a 15-minute short film as a half-proposition essay title to test and select new animation partners.
Let's take a look at the 30 known animation content and production companies.
1. Birdman Girlfriend (Tuca & Bertie)
On May 3, "Bojack horse man" producer Lisa Hanawalt's new "Tuca & Bertie" will be launched on Netflix, and the first season will have 10 episodes. The story is about two 30-year-old "Birdman" girlfriends who live in the same apartment.
Tuca is a toucan that knows nothing, and Bertie is a songbird who is often worried and dreamy. Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong will voice Tuca and Bertie respectively.
The animation's team is basically the same as that of Bojack the Horseman:
Production was led by Michael Eisner's Tornante, who served as Disney CEO for 21 years (1984-2005), and animation by ShadowMachine, along with Raphael Bob-Waksberg (producer of Bojack and Friends), Steven A. Cohen (who worked on Bojack the Horseman, Jack & & Jack, Jack & Cohen) Bobby》）。
Other voice actors include Steven Yeun (starring The Walking Dead), Nicole Byer, Richard E. Grant, John Early, Reggie Watts, Tig Notaro, Amber Ruffin, Jermaine Fowler and Tessa Thompson.
2. Battle Kitty
The recent Goose fire in Disney Marvel Studios' "Captain Marvel" and Netflix's "Meta-Eater" are also on the schedule.
Battle Kitty is an adaptation of some of the illustrations posted on Instagram by animator Matt Layzell, featuring a muscular kitten with a bow and equipped with various monster fighting props.
Melissa Cobb, Netflix's vice president of children and family, said the animation will break with the traditional narrative framework and take an interactive form. No further details have been revealed yet, but Netflix says kids around the world will unfold their stories in the vast universe set by Battle Kitty. They will explore the world of the futuristic-medieval in the Middle Ages.
Veteran producer Matt Layzell is also a producer of the animation, having previously served as an animated producer for The Amazing World of Gumball, a producer for Sanjay and Craig, a producer for Apple and Onion, and a producer for Pinky Malinky on Netflix.
3. The Last Kids on Earth
The film, produced by Atomic Cartoons, is expected to be released on Netflix later this year.
Based on the novel of the same name, The Last Kids on Earth is set after a catastrophe in which 13-year-old Jack Sullivan lives in a tree house with a group of students, playing games, snacking and zombies every day. The story style is more exaggerated, with children full of witty words, strange weapons and equipment, and zombies that can't be beaten.
Cyber Group Studios, an animation production and distribution company, will be responsible for global distribution. Atomic cartoons acquired the rights to The Last Kids on Earth in 2017 and subsequently sold the animation to Netflix in February 2018.
The animation was bought from Atomic cartoons, and the original author Brallier was also involved in the production of the film, along with chief producer Scott Peterson, as well as producers Matthew Berkowitz and Jennifer Twiner McCarron, who represented Atomic cartoons.
Voiced by: Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Catherine O'Hara, Keith David, Bruce Campbell, Garland Whitt, Montse Hernandez and Charles Demers. The lead actor, Jack Sullivan, is voiced by Nick Wolfhard.
4. Gods & Heroes
Gods & Heroes is an original anime set in Greek mythology. The protagonist of the story is the illegitimate son of the abandoned Zeus, who has the ability to save the world and fight against the evil goddess who joins forces with the demons on the way to save the world.
Powerhouse Animation, the animation studio that produced Castlevania, will be in charge of the animation.
Two brothers, Charley Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides (the latter being the writers of the Netflix version of the Death Note comic adaptation) will serve as executive producers for the animation.
"Fertile ground for the creation of animation of myths and folklore, we are excited to experiment with the epic setting of Greek mythology in Gods & Heroes." John Derderian, a Netflix animation director, said, "The brothers Charley and Vlas are very good at telling a gripping story in a fantasy worldview. We're thrilled to be able to take in Netflix members around the world through their fantasy of the gods of Mount Olympus. ”
Jason O'Mara (Agent s.H.I.E.L.D.), Mamie Gummer (True Detective), Derek Phillips (Friday Night Lights), Chris Diamantopoulos (Silicon Valley), Jessica Henwick (Luke Cage), Melina Kanakaredes (The Resident), Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), and Elias Toufexis (The Expanse) were voiced in the anime.
5.Hilda
Hilda is an animation co-produced by Silvergate Media and Mercury Films. As soon as it aired last September, Netflix booked a second season.
It currently airs on the Netflix platform in 130 countries and territories around the world. The anime shined at this year's Annie Awards Animation Awards, winning best character and best scripting in the Best Children's Television Animation and Broadcast Television Animation categories, making it the most awarded television animation of the night.
The first season of "Hilda" has 13 episodes, each 22 minutes long, mainly aimed at audiences aged 6 to 11, the heroine Hilda is voiced by Bella Ramsey, the lord of Bear Island in "Game of Thrones", and the theme song is composed by Grimes.
This 2D animation tells the story of the adventures of the blue-haired girl. She sets off from the magical wilderness full of elves and giants to the busy city of Trolberg, where he meets new friends and magical creatures. With an adventurous story and a vivid fantasy worldview, Hilda captured fans of the original comics and gained new audiences around the world.
6.Green Eggs And Ham
Green Eggs And Ham is based on the beloved novel of the same name by author Dr. Seuss ( Author of "The Story of Old Reiss" with Jared Stern as producer and Warner Bros.
The film is expected to go live on Netflix this fall. Executive producers include Ellen DeGeneres, Jared Stern, Sam Register, Mike Karz, and David Dobkin and Jeff Kleeman.
The story of Green Eggs And Ham is:
Two people who don't deal with each other, Guy (voiced by Michael Douglas) and Sam (Adam Devine), go to a place far away from the zoo to save endangered animals. Along the way, they found hope, friendship, and delicious food.
7. War For Cybertron
Transformers: War For Cybertron is a new Transformers animation co-produced by Netflix and Hasbro and produced by Rooster Teeth. The story launches a brand new worldline, which is expected to go live in 2020.
FJ DeSanto, who has worked on Transformers: Titan Returns and Transformers: The Force of The Celestials, will serve as the producer of the film, with George Krstic, who worked on Legend of the Chrono Robot, Gavin Hignight, who worked on Transformers: Cyberverse, and Brandon Easton, who worked on Transformers: Rescue Robots.
8.Pachamama
Nominated for the César Award for Best Animation, Pachamama, produced by author-type director Juan Antin, tells the story of the adventures of a young boy living in a remote village in the Andes. Netflix is expected to launch this year.
The film's producer is Oscar-nominated Didier Brunner, who has worked on films and television productions such as The Old Lady and the Pigeons and Kirikou and the Sorceress.
The soundtrack for the film is from Pierre Hamon, using instruments from the Thousands of Years of America. The theme song was written by Juan Antin himself.
The protagonist of the film is tepulpaï, a very naughty 10-year-old child who dreams of becoming a shaman. When the villagers gathered to perform a sacrifice ceremony for their deity Pachamama, a bully landlord snatched the golden statue used for the sacrifice. Tepulpaï and his friend Naira decide to reclaim their treasure. So together they embarked on a journey full of unknowns.
9. F Is for Family
The adult-oriented anime "F Is for Family" was inspired by the life experiences of talk show actor Bill Burr, and Netflix has booked a fourth season, which is expected to air in 2020.
"We take the audience back to the '70s, when there was no political correctness, parents didn't interfere with their children and could smoke indoors." Such a manifesto has a taste of South Park, and Disney's family fun and political correctness are two styles.
Bill Burr is also a voice actor for the anime's protagonists, with other voice actors including It also features the voices of Laura Dern, Justin Long and Sam Rockwell.
Bill Burr and Michael Price are the film's co-executive producers, Wild West Television and Gaumont International Television are involved, along with Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley, Katie O'Connell, Elisa Todd Ellis, Sidonie Dumas and Christophe Riandee.
10. True and the Rainbow Kingdom
True and the Rainbow Kingdom is co-produced by Guru Studio and Pharrell Williams' label "i am OTHER," with the participation of arts agency FriendsWithYou and California-based entertainment company Home Plate Entertainment.
The anime tells the story of 8-year-old girl True and her kitty, Bartleby, who save the Rainbow Kingdom. True is the only one who can get the Wishing Tree to unleash the power of Magical Wishes. True and Bartleby's adventures allow children to gain bravery, a sense of responsibility, and respect for life, as well as empathy, critical thinking, and curiosity to explore the world.
The second season of the anime was a huge success last summer, and the video music collection Dance & Sing with True Vol: 2 will be released in the near future. From 2019 to 2020, around the "True and the Rainbow Kingdom" IP, there will also be new episodes, quarterly specials, a 44-minute movie, a short comedy collection and a music collection.
11.The Dragon Prince
"The Dragon Prince" was released on Netflix on February 15.
It was co-created by Aaron Ehasz, lead writer of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and game director of Uncharted 3, with Giancarlo Volpe, director of Incarnation: The Last Qi, once again becoming executive producer.
In the second season, Rayla, Callum and Ezran will continue their journey to Xadia. But there are still many difficulties and obstacles ahead: they will meet new enemies, old rivals, encounter betrayal, face the temptation of ferocious dragons and black magic, and protect the dragon prince Zym, who has just broken out of his shell.
The visuals of cartoon rendering plus 3D modeling are still as gorgeous as the first season. In an interview last summer, the creator revealed: "This way of combining traditional animation and CG animation absorbs a bit of both, CG technology allows the characters to have more details, and the animation rendering adds the charm of the hand-drawn style." The dragon prince's visuals are rich and complex, achieving the effect we expected, and many fans love the style. ”
12. Carmen Sandiego remake
A remake of the classic old IP "Carmen Sandiego" was launched on Netflix on January 18 this year. The film was produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and the animation was produced by Chromosphere.
This new Carmen Sandiego is not only an exciting action scene, but also a delves into the protagonist Carmen's past, telling the audience who she is and why she became a transnational thief.
Jared Lee Gosselin wrote a new theme song for the new Carmen Sandiego, which was sung by Raquel Castro. Gina Rodriguez, an actor who starred in Jane the Virgin, will voice the main character, Carmen Sandiego, and Finn Wolfhard will voice Carman's accomplice and friend Player.
13. Pinky Malinky
"Pinky Malinky" is about the daily life of Pinky Malinky, an optimistic hot dog living in the human world, with a unique worldview and powerful appeal.
However, this animated comedy produced by Nickelodeon is a fateful one, first planned to premiere in 2016, and the structure goes around and around with various jumps, until January 1, 2019, when it finally landed on Netflix.
The film was co-produced by Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjoern, who co-produced The Amazing World of Gumball, and Scott Kreamer, who worked on Kung Fu Panda: Legends of the World, all three of whom came to the Artist Collective, a free veteran artist. As a producer, Nickelodeon has worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender and SpongeBob SquarePants.
14. King Kong: Legendary Defender
Voltron Legendary Defender is an action, comedic, adventurous and space epic produced by DreamWorks Animation Television that premiered in 2016 with an hour-long first episode and a final season of 13 episodes at the end of 2018.
15. Trolls: The Beat Goes On! )
《Trolls: The Beat Goes On！ " is a drama version of DreamWorks Animation's "Trolls" IP, and the fifth season was officially launched on Netflix on January 18 this year.
In the fifth season, Queen Poppy will compose a new hymn, Branch will overcome her "moa disorder", Guy Diamond will not be in the flash, and all the villagers of Trolls will gather to celebrate the snow.
The film's theme song was produced and voiced by critically acclaimed music producers Alana Da Fonseca (who worked on Pitch Perfect and Alvin and the Chipmunks) and voiced by Amanda Leighton, Skylar Astin, Ron Funches, Gary Cole and David Koechner.
16. Dragon's Dogma animation
On March 11, Netflix announced that it will cooperate with three Japanese animation companies, including Anima, Sublimation and David Production, to release several animation works worldwide.
Netflix will collaborate with Supreme on the Dragon's Creed animation. Dragon's Creed was originally an ARPG console game released by Capcom in Japan in 2012. Sublimation specializes in CG animation and has produced works including the theatrical version of the anime Evangelion New Theater Edition: Q.
Atsushi Koishikawa, Representative Director of Sublimation, said he was very fortunate to be working with Netflix and was excited to bring their unique hand-drawn animation renderings to anime fans around the world.
17. An animated version of Altered Carbon
Netflix will be working with Anima on an animated version of Carbon Change.
Carbon Change was originally a new live-action cyberpunk series from Netflix, with the first season launched in February 2018 and the second season in production.
18. SPRIGGAN animation
Netflix partnered with David Production to animate the comic strip SPRIGGAN.
David Production has produced works such as "JOJO Fantastic Adventure Season 1", "Super Dimensional Game Neptune", "JOJO Fantastic Adventure Season 3 Stardust Fighter: Tarot Card Chapter", "Working Cell" and so on.
In September 2007, GDH (now GONZO) producer Takuto Okiura and representative director Koji Kajita established David Production on August 1, 2014, after the independence of GDH, and was acquired by Fuji Television on August 1, 2014.
Previously, Netflix has reached cooperation with top Japanese animation companies such as Production I.G and BONES, and has produced a number of original animations.
19. Ghost in the Shell: SAC _2045 )
In December 2018, Netflix announced that it would be exclusive to the world (except Chinese mainland) in 2020 with the full 3DCG animation Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045.
The new anime will be 12 episodes × 2 seasons, with Kenji Kamiyama (superintendent of the TV version of The Shell Animation) and Nobushi Arama (overseer of Apple Nuclear War and EVA: Top Secret Shock original art + setting) each responsible for one season.
20.Super Crooks
The anime is adapted from the comics by Mark Millar and Leinil Francis Yu and will be produced by Bones.
Mark Millar is also the author of the "Ace King" and "Ace Agent" comics, and the Millarworld he founded was acquired by Netflix (recall: following Disney's acquisition of Marvel, Netflix or the $100 million acquisition of "Ace Agent" and "Sea Flat King" publishing company Millarworld).
Millarworld's new comic book is about crime and superpowers, and it seems that Netflix's tactics of imitating Disney's acquisition of Marvel to acquire the superhero universe are still steadily advancing.
21.Vampire in the Garden
Originally created by WITT STUDIO, it tells the story between a human girl and a vampire girl (Momo and Fine).
22. Anime adaptation of the manga Levius
Polygon Pictures is responsible for the production, the core team is derived from the "Yaren" animation, and will have Hiroyuki Setoshita, Keisuke Izumi, Hiroshi Seto, Yuki Moriyama, Mikazu Iwanami, and Yugo Sugano as the core production staff, and will be exclusive to the world through Netflix in the winter of 2019.
Levius is a fighting comic currently serialized in Shueisha's Ultra Jump, where the protagonist, Lebius, loses his right arm in the war, his father dies in battle, and his mother makes up a vegetative state to protect her son. Under the guidance of his uncle, Lebius began to come into contact with the fighting technique "mechanism boxing", which combined the human body with machinery, and with his flesh and the prosthetic hand of his right arm, he began to emerge on the field as a young boxer.
23. Animation of Easy Bear
The animation is produced in the form of a muppet stop-motion animation, and starting on April 19, Netflix will be able to distribute this stop-motion bubble noodle fan to the world. In the anime, Easy Bear, Chicken, Sweet Bear, and Kaoru will appear, and Kaoru will be voiced by a number of unwashed rules.
24. Manga 7SEEDS anime adaptation
Due to production reasons, Netflix will postpone the credit distribution until June
The 7SEEDS manga has been serialized for 16 years, and Yumi Tamura has been serialized in the elementary school magazine "Bikura Girl Comic" since 2001 and moved to the monthly magazine Flowers in 2006.
Set in response to the impending end of the world (a series of catastrophes caused by a huge meteorite falling to Earth), governments around the world decided to launch a 7SEEDS program to freeze healthy young people until the end of the world to thaw, allowing humanity to survive. Japan's 7SEEDS plan is to form 5 squads of 7 people each. The 7SEEDS teenage girls who have woken up after the end of the world are faced with a completely different Environment from the Earth they were before they were frozen.
25. Pacific Rim animation
Netflix announced in November 2018 that it would animate Pacific Rim. The anime will be co-produced by the U.S.-Japan team, with the plot led by Craig Kyle, screenwriter of "Thor 3" and Greg Johnson, screenwriter of the Marvel animated series "X-Men: Evolution".
The anime will tell the story of two brothers and sisters driving an abandoned mech hunter to survive in a monster-infested world and fight against the evil people who abuse mech technology. There are many mech hunters with special settings in the animation.
26.Trese
The animated Trese series features Jay Oliva, who has worked on the Justice League Junior animation and Batman animated films, as executive producer, and Shanty Harmayn and Tanya Yuson from BASE Entertainment in Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore.
Based on the novel of the same name by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo, the game is set in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and tells the story of the legendary creatures living in the Manila crowd who hide their identities, Alexandra Trese confronts the evil creatures of the underground society, and appears to be a Philippine version of Batman.
27.Cagaster of an Insect Cage
Cagaster of an Insect Cage is an anime based on a Variation of Japanese Manga and produced by Gonzo Animation Studios. The film creates a post-apocalyptic world in which the mysterious virus "Cagaster" turns humans into vicious giant insects, and tells the story of a young couple struggling to survive in this desperate world. The film was directed by Koichi Chigira, who had previously made ull Metal Panic and Last Exile.
28.YASUKE
YASUKE is set in war-torn Japan, where the world is constructed of mechanics and magic. The protagonist of this film is a ronin whose task is to escort a child who is hunted down and killed by evil forces.
The anime is produced by MAPPA, the protagonist is voiced by Lakeith Stanfield, and the protagonist is set in the context of YASUKE, a black samurai who fought with Oda Nobunaga in history.
The film's director/executive producer is LeSean Thomas, who has produced The Boondocks and Cannon Busters, and Grammy-nominated musician Flying Lotus is responsible for the arrangement of the film, and he is also one of the film's executive producers, along with Stanfield and Colin Stark.
29.Maya and the Three
In a Netflix animation studio in Hollywood, Jorge Gutierrez, director of The Book of Life, showed reporters a small clip of an animation they were working on, "Maya and the Three."
The studio is confident in its future, and currently has two hundred employees who are working on more than a dozen new projects at the same time, both animated films and series.
"Maya and the Three" is expected to go live on Netflix in the summer of 2021, and the four-and-a-half-hour epic anime will air in the form of a 30-minute episode. Inspired by Mesoamerican legends, the protagonist of the story, Maya, is a Mesoamerican female warrior who embarks on a journey with three warriors to save the gods and humanity. "A Caribbean wizard, an archer, and a savage giant from the mountains." The director said.
In the pilot clip, Maya and the Caribbean wizard get into an argument. "We want to take audiences from all over the world to experience america that has not yet been conquered." Gutierrez said.
30.Trash Truck
Trash Truck is an animated film for preschoolers, produced by Max Keane. Trash Truck consists of 28 episodes of 11 minutes each, featuring a 6-year-old kid named Hank whose best friend is a garbage truck. Keane said: "At the heart of this animation is friendship. ”
Keane's father, Glen Keane, is a Disney veteran and Oscar winner who serves as a character design and executive producer in the film. The film is expected to go live on Netflix in 2020. Glen Keane also directed an original animated film for Netflix, Over the Moon. The film will be produced by Oriental DreamWorks in China.
Also in the studio is Elizabeth Ito (Emmy winner), who is working on a CG animation, and Rikke Asbjorn and Chris Garbutt, who are working on an interactive narrative. In this work, the cat and dog wake up to find that there is no one in the house, and the child can choose to follow the cat's perspective or the dog's perspective.
There's a reason Netflix's efforts with children's content, and more and more users are starting to watch children's content on Netflix. According to Cameron Johnson, director of TV product innovation at Netflix, more than 50 million users are now watching children's content every Friday. Netflix's vice president of children and families also emphasized the importance of "family fun" content: about 60% of viewers watch children and family content every month.
And Netflix has been ramping up children's content lately. According to incomplete statistics, Netflix has 11 children's animations that have been broadcast this year and have been broadcast this year, including many high-quality Netflix original animations such as "Hilda", "Dragon Prince" and "Next Gen".
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