DR Movie
DR Movie is a South Korean animation studio (Offices also exist in Los Angeles, California and Tokyo, Japan). First established in 1990 and bought by Madhouse close to a decade later (having done work with them beforehand). The studio mainly specializes in in-between animation, ink and paint and CG animation for anime and North American animation. Their clients aside from Madhouse have included Studio Ghibli, GONZO, Sunrise, TMS Entertainment, Sony and Warner Brothers.
They've recently[when?] ventured out to work with Chinese companies, making it highly possible to see co-productions with either Hong Ying or Wang Film Productions sometime in the future.
See also Toon City, Production I.G, Rough Draft Studios and Digital E Mation who, alongside GONZO, use CG in their animation and AKOM, JM Animation, Dong Woo Animation, Sunwoo Entertainment, Saerom and Hanho Heung Up, other South Korean animation studios (JM and Dong Woo also having worked on Anime). Their website can be found here.
North American Projects DR Movie animated include:
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (early episodes only)
- The Batman
- Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot (opening and two episodes)
- Godzilla: The Series (plus the opening)
- Justice League
- Men in Black
- Redakai: Conquer the Kairu (with Digital eMation)
- Teen Titans
- X-Men: Evolution (Madhouse episodes only)
- The Zeta Project
Anime worked on by DR Movie include:
- A Channel - finish and in-between animation
- Agent Aika - finish and in-between animation
- Angel Sanctuary - in-between animation
- Aria - key and second key animation, paint
- Beck - background art, finish and in-between animation, production cooperation
- Black Cat - background art, in-between animation.
- Black Lagoon - in-between animation, tracing, paint
- Bleach - background art (as well as background art, in-between animation and paint in Bleach: Memories of Nobody and Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion)
- Blood+ - in-between animation, paint
- Blue Submarine No. 6 - in-between animation, paint
- Boogiepop Phantom - key and in-between animation, Ink and paint
- Casshern Sins - finish and in-between animation, paint
- The Cat Returns - production cooperation
- Code Geass - in-between, clean up, key and second key animation
- Cowboy Bebop - paint (in-between animation and tracing in Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door)
- Cyber City Oedo 808 - finish animation
- Death Note - background art, clean up and in-between animation
- Devil Hunter Yohko - in-between animation, paint
- Eureka Seven - in-between animation
- Flame of Recca - backgrounds
- Gad Guard - background art
- Gankutsuou - key, second key and in-between animation, paint
- Gantz - second key and in-between animation, paint
- Gate Keepers 21 - finish animation
- Ghost Hound - in-between animation
- Gungrave - background art, key and in-between animation
- Gunslinger Girl - in-between animation
- Gun X Sword - finish animation
- Hellsing - animation
- Highschool of the Dead - second key, finish and in-between animation
- Ichigo 100% - backgrounds, production cooperation
- IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix - key animation
- Iron Man - Production assistance
- Kaiba - key and in-between animation
- Kurokami - production cooperation
- Macross Plus - in-between animation
- Monster - animation assistance, backgrounds, finish, in-between and key animation
- Najica Blitz Tactics - animation, paint
- Nana - background art, key and in-between animation, paint
- Naruto Shippuden - background art
- Ninja Scroll - in-between animation
- Ninja Scroll the Series - backgrounds, key and in-between animation, paint
- Noein - in-between animation, paint
- Oh! Edo Rocket - second key, key, finish and in-between animation, in-between supervision, photography, special effects
- Paradise Kiss - background art
- Paranoia Agent - background art, in-between animation, tracing, paint
- Pokémon Films:
- Pokémon: The First Movie - in-between animation
- Pokémon: The Movie 2000 - clean up and in-between animation
- Pokémon 3 - finish animation assistance in-between animation
- Pokémon 4Ever - finish animation, in-between animation assistance
- Pokémon Heroes - animation assistance
- Pokémon: Lucario and The Mystery of Mew - animation assistance
- Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions - in-between animation assistance
- Real Drive - finish and in-between animation
- Red Line - second key and in-between animation cooperation, paint
- Rozen Maiden - finish and in-between animation
- Saber Marionette J - animation Co-production
- Saiyuki - backgrounds
- Samurai 7 - in-between animation
- Sonic X - in-between animation, paint
- Supernatural: The Animation - finish and in-between animation
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - in-between animation
- Tenjho Tenge - animation cooperation
- Tokyo Babylon - animation assistance
- Tokyo Godfathers - finish and in-between animation
- Trigun - in-between animation, paint, production cooperation (second key, in-between and finish animation in Badlands Rumble)
- Vandread - animation, paint
- ×××HOLiC Kei - in-between animation
- X-Men - in-between animation
- Yu Yu Hakusho - finish and in-between animation
DR Movie provides examples of the following tropes:
- Animation Bump: Somewhat often.
- Conspicuous CG: Particularly with their work for Madhouse (They're called upon for CG in addition to the jobs listed above).
- Medium Blending
- Off-Model: Due to working on several Anime, often at the same time.