TMS Entertainment: Difference between revisions

* [[Seoul Movie]]

* [[Shin Ei Doga]]: After A-Pro split off from TMS, they got 98% of their stocks, 90% of it was sold to TV-Ashai, 8% of it became Shin-Ei Doga. The 2% TMS did not give out to A-Pro was put into Telecom. As of 2010, the studio is now 100% owned by TV-Ashai.

* [[KKC and D Asia]]: Formed by Tetsuo Katayama and Shigeru Akagawa in 1983 because of the way [[Little Nemo]] was going, the studio mostly did shows for [[DiC]] (but the studio did shows for other studios as well) with their biggest project being ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''. The studio went down in 2000 due to becoming too expensive for the US to ship off productions to Japan and failing to compete in the anime market. Most of the staff now work for [[Production I.G]].

* [[Spectrum]]: Formed in 1988, the studio's first job was to supervise the Korean studios responsible for Dic's [[Captain N: The Game Master]]. The company's first (and only) big break was on [[Batman: The Animated Series]], providing animation to episodes like "Robin's Reckoning Part 1" and to the movie ''Mask of the Phantasm''. The studio also did some other work for Cinar and [[DiC]] as well. But, much like KK C&D, they were unable to compete in the anime market and shut down in 1998. Most of their staff, like KK C&D's, now work for Production IG.

* [[Walt Disney Animation Japan]]: Founded by Motoyoshi Tokunaga in 1988 as Michael Eisner was opening up a unit in Japan (after he bought out Pacific Animation Corp.) and was giving him more money to him to run the studio, the studio did works for Disney until 2004 when Disney was getting rid of there traditional animation units (however, Roy E. Disney and [[John Lasseter]] did save the Los Angeles units). After that most of their staff members went to work for Madhouse, [[Studio Pierrot]] or Production IG. The ones who did stick with Tokunaga went on to become...

** [[The Answer Studio]]: Formed by Tokunaga after Walt Disney Animation Japan went down in 2004, The studio did a number of shows and DTV movies like'' [[Transformers Animated]]'', ''[[Golgo 13]]'' and ''[[Batman: Under the Red Hood]]''.

Noteworthy TMS staff members include (also counting their Telecom unit).

* Yutaka Fujioka: Founder of TMS, he left to retire in 1992 (some say that he left in 1989 because of Little Nemo's bombing, however he was in a Tiny Toons staff photo, which was shot in 1990, which debunks that. [[media:fujioka sama 9191.jpg|Here's]] a picture of him, and [http://cartoonatics.blogspot.com/2010/09/warner-bros-animation-staff-circa-1990.html the full photo]; to compare with older pictures of him, [http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm10232072 here] is a photo of him and other TMS staff members during production on [[Little Nemo]]; the latter photo is a video, but he is in the very start of the video). He died in 1996.

* Koji Takeuchi: Came to TMS in 1977 from A-Pro. He is the president of TMS's Telecom unit.

* Shigeru Akagawa: He worked for TMS in the 70's and eary 80's. Like Tetsuo Katayama, he left TMS in 1983 to work for KK C&D Asia.

* Motoyoshi Tokunaga: He did some stuff for TMS, then left the studio in 1988 to find Walt Disney Animation Japan, where he stayed until the studio closed down in 2004. After that he founded The Answer Studio.

* [[Toshihiko Masuda]]: Coming to TMS in 1980, he's mostly known for the ''Istanbul, Not Constantinople'' music video of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''. He helped made the [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Tom]] [[Animaniacs|Ruegger]] shows what they are today, and no, he is not related with Junichi Masuda.

* [[Nobuo Tomizawa]]: He came to TMS from Nippon Animation in 1977 for more money, mostly known for being the animation director of The Great Anvil Chorus of Tiny Toons, he was one of the animation directors of Little Nemo, as well as the chief director of ''[[Ramen Fighter Miki]]'' and ''[[Daughter of Twenty Faces|The Daughter of Twenty Faces]]''.

* Sadakazu Takiguchi: Yet he came to TMS in 1983 when a batch of people were leaving TMS to go work for [[KKC and D Asia]] or went with Hayao Miyazaki to work on ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'', he did not became a director until 2003 when Hiroyuki Aoyama left Telecom to became a freelancer, he has worked on ''The Daughter Of Twenty Faces'' and ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' (stationed at Telecom of course).

* Kenji Hachizaki

* Yoshinobu Michihata

* Hiroyuki Aoyama: He came to TMS in 1980. He left in 2003 to become a freelance staff member for other studios, but came back in 2006 (but still does some freelance work now and then). He's mostly known for ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'' and ''[[Summer Wars]]'' for [[Madhouse]] and ''A Letter To Momo'' for [[Production I.G]].

* Osamu Nabeshima: Worked at TMS as early as the early 80's, doing key animation on ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''. He is the chief director of ''[[Kaitou Saint Tail]]'', ''[[Hamtaro]]'', ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' and ''[[Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light]]''.

* Masatomo Sudo: Worked at TMS as early as the 1980's, doing key animation on ''[[Mighty Orbots]]''. He is the creator of Laura Haruna.

* [[Steven Spielberg]]: Saved TMS after their [[Little Nemo]] bombing.

* Tom Ruegger: He made TMS what their are today.

* Bruce Timm

* ''[[Big X]]'': TMS's 1st production, the only production that TMS got from [[Osamu Tezuka]] when he was still alive, only done by them because Mushi (the studio that most of Tezaka's productions were done by when he was still alive) was full at the time.

* ''Obake No Q-Taro'': TMS 1st production from Fujiko Pro as most productions came from them until A-Pro split off from TMS in 1977 and became Shin-Ei Doga.

* ''[[Attack No. 1]]''

* ''[[Tensai Bakabon]]'': 1st and 2nd series only, the 3rd and 4th series are done by [[Studio Pierrot]].

* ''[[Panda Go Panda]]''

* ''Ganbare!! Tabuchi-Kun!!''

* ''Mu No Hakubai''

* ''[[Tetsujin 28]]''

* ''[[Adventures In The Magic Kingdom]]'': Unaired pilot, the only thing that came out for it was a [[NES]] game by [[Capcom]].

* ''[[Far East Of Eden]]'': 2 OVAs, based on the [[Hudson Soft]] game of the same name.

* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'': 19 episodes, plus the opening, ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation|Tiny Toon Adventures How I Spent My Vacation]]'' and ''Night Ghoulery''. Other episodes were done by [[Star Toons]], [[Wang Film Productions]], [[AKOM]], [[Freelance Animators New Zealand]], [[Kennedy Cartoons]], and [[Encore Cartoons]].

* ''Karakurizoshi Ayatsuri Sakon''

* 2D in game animation for the [[Nintendo 64]] game ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]-Disney Dancing Museum'', TMS's fist production with Disney in over 10 years.

* ''[[Hamtaro]]'': Along with 4 OVAs, 4 Movies, an all CGI show thru Hai (Hai's episodes were only 5 minutes though), a rebroadcast thru Dechu, a sing along DVD, 2 Hiragana specials, a school special and a numbers special.

* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'': 2 OVAs, the rest of the series is done by Toei.

* ''[[Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri]]'': 1st series only, the 2nd series ([http://lilpri.tv/story/story2_01_10.html yes, there is a 2nd series]{{Dead link}}) is done by [[Studio 4°C]].

* A music video from the UK called ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeoW2Jptu0g Cartoon Style Fighting Kids]'' aka ''It's Tropical'': Live action X animation cross breed, produced by in the UK by Elnino and Studio 7-Machine Molle, but the live action was shot in France and the animation is done in Japan by TMS (Telecom Unit), however this video is NSFW due to all the blood shed that goes on in it.

** Additional Animation Studios under contract for TMS/Telecom: Studio Ace (CGI Animation).

* ''[[Winnie the Pooh|The Tigger Movie]]'': Animation Cooperation for [[Walt Disney Animation Japan]] (through the Telecom unit).

** Animation (through Telecom) by: Nobuo Tomizawa, Kenji Hachizaki, Keiko Oyamada, Teiichi Takiguchi.

* ''[[Professor Layton and The Eternal Diva]]'' (Background art, In-between animation; both through Telecom)

* ''[[Patlabor|Patlabor WXII]]'' (Key Animation)

** ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'' (Key Animation by Kazuhide Tomonaga)

** ''[[Pom Poko]]'' (In-between & clean-up animation, key animation)

** ''[[Whisper of the Heart]]'' (In-between and key animation)

** ''[[Ponyo]]'' (Key Animation by Toshihiko Masuda and Atsuko Tanaka)

** ''[[From Up on Poppy Hill]]'' (Key animation by Atsuko Tanaka and Hiroyuki Aoyama, the later who did some freelanced work in the past is stationed at Telecom for this)

* [[Animation Bump]]: Like most studios in Japan, the work of the chief studio (in this case TMS) tends to be shiped off to other studios from time to time, one studio in particular (Telecom) tends to do such gorgeous animation. It's also one of the reasons why most of their western productions are done by them. Telecom still ships off to other studios (like with [[Lil Pri]]), but not as often like other Japanese studios.

** Other commonly praised studios that TMS did use include [[Studio Jungle Gym]] (They're sometimes off key, but there are the closest studio TMS uses that is close to Telecom's quality, The studio worked with TMS on Hiroyuki Aoyama's ''A Ditch In Time'' of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' and Toshihiko Masuda's ''Clown And Out'' of ''[[Animaniacs]]'', they also worked on other TMS shows as well like Hamtaro (watch episodes 27, 32 and 37)).