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Founded by Sugito Atsuhiko in 1985, '''Studio OX''' (スタジオ OX) is a feelance art studio that produced more "anime styled" Transformers art for ''[[TV Magazine]]'' and ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' throughout the early years of [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generatiion 1]] in Japan. They continue to provide production and conceptual artwork to this day, primarily for feature film animation, such as ''Gunhead'' and ''Android Kikaider''. | |||
[[Image:Springerstudiooxcharactermodel.jpg|left| | Their Transformer character designs are notable for being far more detailed than [[Floro Dery]]'s models, as well as borrowing visual elements from Japanese mecha designs. Being an actual ''studio'' comprised of numerous artists, the quality and details of Studio OX's ''Transformers'' often fluctuated wildly. Both scale and proportions were often brutalized to horrific effect, while other pieces boasted more technically pleasing, dynamic action. | ||
Although the character designs created by Floro Dery and the animators at [[Toei]] were typically the ones used in the ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers]]'' animated series, a lone exception was made for the episode "[[Call of the Primitives]]". For reasons unknown, this single episode chose to use the more detailed Studio OX character designs and is often praised for its beauty. A long-standing rumor is that the episode was animated by [[Tokyo Movie Shinsha]], who only worked on this single episode for the series, which might lend an explanation as to why they used alternate character models from the other studios. Regardless, no proof has surfaced to explain this oddity. | |||
[[Image:Springerstudiooxcharactermodel.jpg|left|200px|thumb|]] | |||
Studio OX's participation in the ''Transformers'' franchise was gradually phased out as the popularity of the series died down. By the time of ''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]'', nearly all [[story page]]s and magazine artwork was provided by [[Ban Magami]] with additional pieces of box artwork from [[Hidetsugu Yoshioka]] to round out the decreased page space. | |||
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==External link== | |||
*[http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AAOX Studio OX at Wikipedia (Japanese)] | |||
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Revision as of 22:40, 2 February 2010
Founded by Sugito Atsuhiko in 1985, Studio OX (スタジオ OX) is a feelance art studio that produced more "anime styled" Transformers art for TV Magazine and Comic Bom Bom throughout the early years of Generatiion 1 in Japan. They continue to provide production and conceptual artwork to this day, primarily for feature film animation, such as Gunhead and Android Kikaider.
Their Transformer character designs are notable for being far more detailed than Floro Dery's models, as well as borrowing visual elements from Japanese mecha designs. Being an actual studio comprised of numerous artists, the quality and details of Studio OX's Transformers often fluctuated wildly. Both scale and proportions were often brutalized to horrific effect, while other pieces boasted more technically pleasing, dynamic action.
Although the character designs created by Floro Dery and the animators at Toei were typically the ones used in the Transformers animated series, a lone exception was made for the episode "Call of the Primitives". For reasons unknown, this single episode chose to use the more detailed Studio OX character designs and is often praised for its beauty. A long-standing rumor is that the episode was animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, who only worked on this single episode for the series, which might lend an explanation as to why they used alternate character models from the other studios. Regardless, no proof has surfaced to explain this oddity.
Studio OX's participation in the Transformers franchise was gradually phased out as the popularity of the series died down. By the time of Zone, nearly all story pages and magazine artwork was provided by Ban Magami with additional pieces of box artwork from Hidetsugu Yoshioka to round out the decreased page space.
