ALUCARD CASTLEVANIA ANIME MOVIE
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Given the nature of the source material, there is an extensive amount of onscreen blood and severed limbs. It took some iterations to get there, and somewhere I have a long email chain discussing the amount of eyelashes a character should have, but in the end I think our director and Production Designer Sam Deats really captured the essence of her work and did it in a way that that we could actually animate.вЂќ All of our characters had to be beautiful.

We focused in on KojimaвЂ™s work and pushed the designs in that direction. Beautiful gothic women and maybe even more beautiful gothic men.

ALUCARD CASTLEVANIA ANIME SERIES

вЂњEvaluating those designs and looking for a recognizable visual entry point for fans to the series, we realized that for most Castlevania fans, when they thought about the look of the game series, they probably thought about the stunning art that Ayami Kojima had created for the series over the years. вЂњThe early character design passes for the series were somewhat bland,вЂќ recalls Kolde. Tiger Animation in Seoul, Korea is our overseas animation partner.вЂќДЄnime and the artwork of Ayami Kojima for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night were influential in deciding upon the animation style. We never looked at another studio after that meeting. Powerhouse really hadnвЂ™t done series work before, but did their homework on the history of the Castlevania project and came armed with an awesome pitch and deck that they had put together specifically for the project. Brad showed up for the meeting with a large entourage of people that he had flown out from their studio in Austin, Texas. Brad name-dropped someone I knew, so I ended up responding and we set up a time to meet in our Burbank office. One day I got an unsolicited email from Brad Graeber at Powerhouse Animation wanting to pitch his studio for Castlevania. вЂњOriginally,вЂќ Kolde says, вЂњwe tried to find a Japanese studio to work with, but they were all booked or busy or wanted to try to convince us to use CGI animation. HeвЂ™s the creator of the series, but understands that animation is a collaborative process and encourages and respects the contributions of everyone from the actors to the artists and animators, to the sound designers and the composer.вЂќД¬astlevania was always going to be 2D hand-drawn animation. In regards to how his relationship has evolved with Ellis over the course of the three seasons, Kolde remarks, вЂњWarren is a great partner and producer. Fortunately, they agreed, and with the additional episodes we had the space we needed to expand the story and find a comfortable rhythm and pace for the series.вЂќ But we got on a call, talked about it, and decided to go to Netflix and ask them to increase the episode count to eight. In hindsight, I probably should have given him some context as to why I was asking him to stop. I emailed Warren and asked him to stop writing. The character count had also more than doubled over Season 1 and it really felt like we were rushing through the story. вЂњWhen the third script came in,вЂќ Kolde admits, вЂњI started to panic when I realized how much story was left to cover in the last episode. The second season was originally supposed to be four episodes as well.

ALUCARD CASTLEVANIA ANIME MOVIE

The four episodes of the first season of Castlevania are pretty much the original movie script with some surgical edits and additions that Warren did to adjust for the series format. They were just starting to roll out the early Netflix Originals, so we shifted gears and pitched Castlevania to them as a series. вЂњAround the same time, we were having discussions with Netflix about another project. вЂњWhen we started talking about Castlevania again back in 2015, we were thinking about crowdfunding a movie from the original script,вЂќ notes Kolde. Initially, producer Kevin Kolde and his company Project 51 Productions had contracted Ellis to write a script for a film version in 2007, but things did not move forward until Adi Shankar got involved in 2015. A creative partnership forged between Frederator Studios, comic book icon Warren Ellis, Project 51 Productions, Shankar Animation, Powerhouse Animation Studios, MUA Film and Netflix produced an anime inspired adaptation that debuted in July 2017 and has been renewed for a fourth season. Furthering the mythology of Dracula is the gothic fantasy video game franchise Castlevania launched in 1986 by Konami that introduces a clan of vampire hunters known as the Belmonts.

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