Studio 4°C
Studio 4°C is an animation studio located in Japan. Their name refers to the temperature in which water is most dense.
Established in 1986, the company has mainly done work for various anime and North American related projects. Particularly Transformers Animated and Tekkon Kinkreet.
See also Toei Animation, TMS Entertainment (maybe), AKOM, Mainframe Entertainment, Studio Gallop, Dong Woo Animation, Wang Film Productions, GONZO, Industrial Light and Magic, Digital Domain, Sunwoo Entertainment, and Mook DLE; other studios that worked on a Transformers series.
Compare DR Movie, JM Animation and Studio DEEN for being primary outsourcees to other anime studios.
Major projects:
- Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (inter-mission cutscenes)
- Amazing Nuts! (includes Kung Fu Love)
- The Animatrix ("Beyond", "Detective Story", "Kid's Story", "Second Renaissance" segments)
- Asura's Wrath (DLC episodes set in between episodes 11-12 and 15-16)
- Batman Gotham Knight
- Berserk (2012 movie trilogy)
- Catherine (cutscenes)
- Detroit Metal City
- Genius Party
- Green Lantern Emerald Knights
- Halo Legends
- Lil Pri (second series)
- Memories
- Mind Game
- Rogue Galaxy (cutscenes)
- Spriggan
- Steamboy
- Street Fighter IV (cutscenes)
- Sweat Punch (includes Kigeki)
- Tekkon Kinkreet
- ThunderCats (2011)
- Transformers Animated (Stock Footage, American opening and internet shorts)
- Tweeny Witches
- Untitled Kid Icarus short
Other projects:
- The Borrower Arrietty (Animation Assistance)
- Fairy Tail (In-Between Animation)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2nd Key and In-Between Animation)
- Gosick (In-Between Animation)
- Heroman (In-Between Animation)
- House of Five Leaves (In-Between Animation)
- Macross 7 (Animation Assistance)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (In-Between Animation)
- Noir (In-Between Animation)
- Pokémon the Rise of Darkrai (In-Between Animation Assistance)
- Rurouni Kenshin (In-Between Animation)
- Sora no Manimani (In-Between Animation)
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Animation Cooperation)
- Toradora! (In-Between Assistance)
Studio 4°C provides examples of the following tropes:
- Design Student's Orgasm: A few of their more zany short films fall into this category.
- Scenery Porn: Almost everything they've ever made.