IcareAlot
06-26-2009, 12:04 PM
Baton is a new anime from director Ryuhei Kitamura (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457565/) (Versus, Azumi) and Shunji Iwai (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412517/) (April Story, All About Lily Chou-Chou) that is being produced by US animation studio titmouse (http://www.titmouse.net/) (huh?). There’s not much known about the story at the moment See update below!, only that Aya Ueto (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1475754/) and (Hayato Ichihara (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1130046/) will play the two main characters Apollo and Micha(?)l who live together with intelligent robots on a future Earth.
The three, about 20 minutes long Episodes of Baton will be shown during the 150th anniversary celebration of the city of Yokohama from April 28 to September 27.
http://blog.affenheimtheater.de/en/2009/03/12/baton-trailer-rotoscope-anime-versus/
http://www.baton-y150.jp/
Trailer and footage in links. Its basically blends rotoscoping and trad 2d stuff.
Hmmm.
The three, about 20 minutes long Episodes of Baton will be shown during the 150th anniversary celebration of the city of Yokohama from April 28 to September 27.
http://blog.affenheimtheater.de/en/2009/03/12/baton-trailer-rotoscope-anime-versus/
http://www.baton-y150.jp/
Trailer and footage in links. Its basically blends rotoscoping and trad 2d stuff.
Hmmm.