A-1 Pictures

A-1 Pictures is a Japanese Anime studio first established in 2005 by Aniplex (Technically Sony) to animate their productions. They have since grown enough to produce content for the Japanese market.

Noticeable for having CG in some of their shows.

See also Rough Draft Studios, Toon City, GONZO, Digital E Mation, DR Movie, Xebec, Satelight and Production I.G; all of whom also use CG in their works. Also see Sony Pictures Imageworks, another studio formed by Sony; Do not confuse with A 1 Production, A South Korean studio and A-1 Steak Sauce.

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Anime created/co-created by A-1 (among others)

• Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
• Big Windup
• Birdy the Mighty: Decode
• Black Butler
• Blue Exorcist
• Fairy Tail (With Satelight)
• Fractale
• The Idolmaster
• Kannagi
• Night Raid 1931
• Senran Kagura (Opening, animation outsourced to Toon City under contract)
• Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin
• Togainu no Chi
• Uta no Prince-sama
• Valkyria Chronicles (Animated Adaptation)
• ~WORKING!!~

Other Anime worked on by A-1

• Afro Samurai: Resurrection (Paint)
• El Cazador de la Bruja (Finish Animation)
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Production Assistance)
• Real Drive (Finish Animation)

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A-1 Pictures provides examples of the following tropes:

• Conspicuous CG
• Medium Blending: In The Making of Kuroshitsuji, there's a scene in which Hand-Drawn "CG Animators" were in a live action environment (presumably their own CG Department).
• Off-Model: Happens at times. This example from Kuroshitsuji with waist-less Claude for instance.