Yona Yona Penguin

Yona Yona Penguin (よなよなペンギン) is an animated film currently in production by the Japanese anime studio Madhouse and sister company Dynamo Pictures. It will be Madhouse's first fully 3D CGI film. Famed Madhouse staff director Rintaro, known for Galaxy Express 999 and Metropolis, will helm the project. French production company Denis Friedman Productions is collaborating on and helping fund the film. Madhouse has announced this film as being a "3D a... more

Yona Yona Penguin (よなよなペンギン) is an animated film currently in production by the Japanese anime studio Madhouse and sister company Dynamo Pictures. It will be Madhouse's first fully 3D CGI film. Famed Madhouse staff director Rintaro, known for Galaxy Express 999 and Metropolis, will helm the project. French production company Denis Friedman Productions is collaborating on and helping fund the film. Madhouse has announced this film as being a "3D anime," or a film which brings an anime sensibility and design structure into the 3D CGI world. Unlike in other Japanese CG productions, such as Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, photo-realism is not emphasised. Rather, attention has been focused on giving the feel of a traditionally-made anime to a completely computerized production. As Madhouse's expertise has long been in the creation of traditional 2D animation, much of the actual 3D animation is to be done by the French animation studio Def2shoot, the Thai studio Imagimax, and the... less