KADOKAWA Opens Studio One Base Hub For Five Group Anime Studios
The stated premise is hiring and retention rather than capacity: Studio One Base Corporation president Tsuyoshi Kikuchi said creative production staff are not receiving sufficient benefits while the number of young people entering the industry falls, so the hub is built around working conditions and training space.
Reporting from 1 source: Real Sound Anime.
KADOKAWA will open Studio One Base this autumn, a production hub that gathers five group studios: ENGI, Studio KADAN, Chiptune, Bellnox Films, and Raging Bull. A September 17 media briefing showed the interior, including creator desks. The Main Studio building is split into three areas: Focus for individual immersion, Tuning for information sharing, and Resonance for meetings and screenings. A Creator Academy building sits inside Sunshine 60.
The desks were the point of the walkthrough. KADOKAWA's Studio One Base adopts custom-made adjustable desks whose width changes with the task, built so vibration from one station does not reach another. Partitions and other elements use dark tones to cut visual information, and indirect ceiling lighting is meant to reduce reflections on monitors.
Network infrastructure runs on a 10 Gbps backbone, sized for the large data volumes anime production generates. Away from the desks, Studio One Base Corporation president Tsuyoshi Kikuchi framed the project around the people doing the work, saying creative staff are not receiving sufficient benefits and that young people are entering the industry in declining numbers.
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- Real Sound Anime KADOKAWA、グループアニメスタジオ合同拠点の制作現場を公開 “没入”の環境を整備