Nintendo Pictures Co., Ltd. (ニンテンドーピクチャーズ株式会社) (formerly Dynamo Pictures, Inc. (株式会社ダイナモピクチャーズ)) is a Japanese animation studio based in Tokyo. Owned by Nintendo since 2022, it primarily works on video games, anime films and television series, including but not limited to Nintendo properties.[1]
History
As Dynamo Pictures
Dynamo Pictures originated as the CG and motion capture production department of Visual Science Laboratory, Inc., a computer graphics and virtual reality research and development company founded in 1991 by Kenji Yoshida.[2] Though the studio would start being credited as Dynamo Pictures, Inc. in October 2004, it wasn't formally established as an independent animation studio by department head Hiroshi Hirokawa until March 18, 2011.[2]