Nintendo To Acquire Dynamo Pictures, Will Rename It 'Nintendo Pictures'

Hopefully they will do something crazy and make a Zelda movie?

That's an interesting development. I hope they'll make some beautiful and fun animations for us to enjoy!

Finally time for my Wario treasure hunting movie

They also did they CGI for FF13-2 and Kingsglaive FF15 and the motion-capturing of Nier Replicant, Persona 5, Death Stranding etc

So it's not necessarily only for (short-)movies

Go go Nintendynamo!

Hmmmm, Nintendynamo.
Now that sounds like a game I would like to play.

That sounds great. Those Pikmin Shorts from so long ago were pretty cool. I hope we get to see some of those reapings soon, like perhaps before the Mario movie begins.

I hope that sometime in the future the trailers of Nintendo will have the same quality Blizzard has.

They could also work on cutscenes for games. Pretty exciting news, I really liked the Pikmin shorts.

Whether this ties into their attempts to get into film is anyone's guess, but I did like the Pikmin shorts.

Probably for marketing materials and cutscenes rather than them making their own movies.

@Friendly That was the first thought I had when I saw this. Would we get more elaborate trailers and footage for upcoming games? Didn't we get a bunch similar for Smash Bros character reveals?

While I'd be down for more full production stuff like the pikmin movies, or even something as extravagant as their Kingsglaive work, I'd imagine it's more the former. Plus if it was going to be more the latter, wouldn't it of made more sense to have the Mario movie done in house with these guys?

If this gets us closer to actual, animated Nintendo series then I am ALL for it. Great stuff for Dynamo as well, I imagine they're probably over the moon about this.

I don't want shorts--I want full, animated series. Pleeeease, Nintendo.

I wonder if the Mario movie is a flop, would they move video production content in-house? I recall Miyamoto wanting to expand their media presence through video and film

Where are they based? Japan?

I'm happy for this. I loved those shorts we used to get on the 3DS. The Kid Icarus ones were my favorite, though I don't think that was this same company.

How about Hotel Mario HD with fully re animated cutscenes?

@Friendly I started diablo 3 last year, and the cutscenes blew me away. I do hope that Nintendo's cuteness could eventually be that stunning.

A Zelda and Metroid movie would be nice or at least some gaiden OVA that tie to the story of their games.

Predicted in Elite Beat Agents?

Maybe, they can produce Pokemon Movies, anime, and shorts. oh? They have!?! That was maniacal Nintendo! 😉 Next stop a Mario Bros. anime running 25+ years!!!

NCU(Nintendo cinematic universe) is coming

Probably use these guys for CGI game trailers

Hoping for more Pikmin Shorts.

They need to put those 3d shorts back on the eShop before it's really to late.

Nintendo plans to spend up to ¥59 billion on "Non-game entertainment." The purchase of Dynamo Pictures only costed them ¥34.5 million, so it seems like Nintendo still has a long way to go with regards to their non-gaming entertainment investments.

Have my doubts any movies will come from this, just an in house means of producing cut scenes and promotional animations. They have a deal with Universal/Ilumination so the movies will come from them for the foreseeable future.

Another step to getting back into animated/filming business. I loved the 2000's shows like Kirby and F Zero. I think I would've liked those 80's Mario cartoons if I grew up with it. Hope they do stuff like the Star Fox short and the Links Awakening HD opening/ending. I'd pay anything for that.

Shorts like those are my favorite video format for a lot of Nintendo's franchises, so hopefully we'll see more of them now. Though it's more likely they'll just be put in charge of ads, supporting work on cutscenes, or something else boring like that.

May it be for marketing or in game visuals, this is a good move!

Hope the company thrives under Nintendo.

Sounds like a cool move to me!! Looking forward to see what this leads to!

@mariomaster96 yeah, I was wondering if they might do some cg cutscenes for Nintendo games.

I'm all for Nintendo expanding their IP's to other mediums as long as it doesn't take away from the main priority of making new games for said IPs.

One of my fave memories as a kid was coming home from school and catching the Donkey Kong Country show on TV. Even the Kirby: Right Back At Ya! & Sonic X shows on Saturday mornings was cool just to see video game characters in cartoons/anime.

Exploring different mediums could potentially build less popular franchises up like F-Zero, Star Fox, Metroid, Earthbound, Wario, Kid Icarus, Little Mac etc... not only lore wise in which it could help with expanding the scope of each property, but which could also subsequently drive interest in developing, supporting and gaming with those IPs. Not to mention the product, merch & licensing opportunities... as well as potential future attractions now (Super Nintendo World expansions).

Sidenote: The anime shorts Nintendo had Production I.G. make for Star Fox a couple years were amazing and continuing that endeavour along with another new series for F-Zero again could be dope. In terms of live-action, of course Zelda & Metroid are no-brainers though I’d prefer a series for each before movies to start.

... Wun can only hope.

I think they will help in producing cinematics for their games or cinematics for commercials. I don't think it is something as big as some other comments are suggesting