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It may surprise you to learn that all the key animation frames were drawn by one person: Masaaki Iwane.
The Japanese version of the video has a partial staff list for the animation. It credits OLM Team Kato for the production, the same studio behind the Pokémon TV anime, and Yuji Asada and Masaaki Iwane as director and character designer respectively.
Although the staff does not list the key animation role, Iwane took full credit for it on Twitter. When a fan tweeted at him asking if it was a one-man key animation job, Iwane responded, "As usual, I drew it all by myself."
As Iwane's response may imply, this is far from the only occasion he has drawn large amounts of key animation by himself. He has been a key animator on the Pokémon TV anime since the very beginning of the series in 1997. According to the Japanese animator wiki, he has drawn entire episodes by himself since 1998. Nowadays, he is credited as the solo key animator on every sixth episode or so of the TV anime. His most recent credited solo key animated episode was on episode 126 of Sun & Moon.
On Twitter, Iwane described the production on the Pokémon Masters trailer as "relatively business as usual" for OLM. Animation producer Hiroyuki Kato described the work as a "full digital production, including the storyboards."
The Japanese version of the video has a partial staff list for the animation. It credits OLM Team Kato for the production, the same studio behind the Pokémon TV anime, and Yuji Asada and Masaaki Iwane as director and character designer respectively.
Although the staff does not list the key animation role, Iwane took full credit for it on Twitter. When a fan tweeted at him asking if it was a one-man key animation job, Iwane responded, "As usual, I drew it all by myself."
As Iwane's response may imply, this is far from the only occasion he has drawn large amounts of key animation by himself. He has been a key animator on the Pokémon TV anime since the very beginning of the series in 1997. According to the Japanese animator wiki, he has drawn entire episodes by himself since 1998. Nowadays, he is credited as the solo key animator on every sixth episode or so of the TV anime. His most recent credited solo key animated episode was on episode 126 of Sun & Moon.
On Twitter, Iwane described the production on the Pokémon Masters trailer as "relatively business as usual" for OLM. Animation producer Hiroyuki Kato described the work as a "full digital production, including the storyboards."
