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brocko · 2012-09-30, 21:02

Everybody in the industry outsources to each other.

Shaft is probably just the biggest example for it since they're notorious for crapping up production deadlines and need all the help that they can get. Even if most of the animation is still not done by them, they're still the creative forces behind all the storyboards, scene composition, animation direction and all that jazz. The other companies still get listed within the credits anyway, it's just that Shaft is the production studio who put it all together so they get the biggest name plaster.

It's like how companies design a product in one area of the world, but outsources the manufacturing halfway across the globe because it's cheaper or the infrastructure is already there to do so.

If a studio manages to do everything in-house, then great, more power to them. Not every studio is large enough to be able to do so though.

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brocko Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ¯\(º_o)/¯	Everybody in the industry outsources to each other. Shaft is probably just the biggest example for it since they're notorious for crapping up production deadlines and need all the help that they can get. Even if most of the animation is still not done by them, they're still the creative forces behind all the storyboards, scene composition, animation direction and all that jazz. The other companies still get listed within the credits anyway, it's just that Shaft is the production studio who put it all together so they get the biggest name plaster. It's like how companies design a product in one area of the world, but outsources the manufacturing halfway across the globe because it's cheaper or the infrastructure is already there to do so. If a studio manages to do everything in-house, then great, more power to them. Not every studio is large enough to be able to do so though. __________________ http://www.freerice.com/ - For each word you get right, 10 grains of rice is donated through the UN to help end world hunger.