A few months ago, Nintendo announced that it would acquire Japanese company Dynamo Pictures and make it a wholly owned subsidiary. The big N also mentioned that following the acquisition was set to go under the name of Nintendo Pictures Co, Ltd. At that point, the goal was to “focus on developing visual content utilizing Nintendo IP”. The deal was expected to close today.

And today, Nintendo has officially launched the website for its new animation studio, Nintendo Pictures.

The site is in Japanese, but according to VGC, it displays the following message: “Through our videos, we aim to make Nintendo characters known worldwide and create one-of-a-kind videos that will remain in their memories forever.

To this end, each and every one of our employees will work hard to create an organization that can continue to grow by always considering what could be interesting to customers around the world and engaging in production work that they enjoy themselves. In addition, we will continue to take on the challenge of providing unique and surprising images to customers around the world, transcending generations and eras.”

One would think that this new company will be dedicated to animated movies and TV series. But let’s remember that Dynamo also develops visual content for video games. The company previously worked on the CG in Final Fantasy XIII-2, providing motion capture for titles such as Death Stranding, Nier Replicant, Monster Hunter World, and Persona 5. Surprisingly (or not), Dynamo has also worked with Nintendo in the past. For example, the company helped with the CG cutscenes in Metroid: Other M and produced a series of Pikmin short movies alongside Shigeru Miyamoto.

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