What if we paid Japanese Animators fairly? - Animator Supports Presents: "Back to You"
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Hello! We’re Animator Supporters, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the lives of financially struggling Japanese animators through the help of anime fans. One of our initiatives at Animator Supporters is creating high-paying jobs through the creation of original anime, and our first anime, a music video called “Back to You,” was recently completed!
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We at Animator Supporters would like to give a big shoutout to Mason Lieberman and Caleb Hyles, as well as all 24 musicians on the Western side of the world who donated their skills to this project.
Thanks to them and everyone who helped fund this project, we were able to pay our animators our highest goal of 180 dollars per keyframe which is 2~4 times more than the industry standard.
This was Animator Supporters’ first attempt at making a music video, and we used this film as a way to train some of our new animators while making it, so from a technical standpoint, we feel that it has some shortcomings. That said, we still feel that it’s a charming piece of animation.
Our plan moving forward is to sustainably create about 1 music video per year as we spend some time gathering the personnel and know-how to open up a studio of our own, which will cater to the needs of its creators.
Now, as the next step toward that goal, we’re partnering with voice actress Aya Hirano who you might know as Haruhi from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucy Heartfillia from FAIRY TAIL to create our second music video where she’ll be joining us as a vocalist.
If you'd like to help us fund the music video, we have an on-going crowdfunding campaign that you can donate to at the link below.
If you’re interested in supporting our cause, please consider making a donation!
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Back to You
Animation Staff
Storyboard Artist, Director, Character Designer, Editor
Kenichi Kutsuna
Animation Directors
Kenichi Kutsuna
Ota Akihiko
Yuta Araki
Background Artist
Yuki Funagakure
Colorization Planning & Stylization
Junko Tsukidate
Compositors
Tatsuya Fukumoto
Rikei
Aozora Maeda (STUDIO COLORIDO)
Key Animators
Yuta Araki
Ayane Nakamura
Miku Kaneko
Taishi Fujiki
Ryoko
STuDio PaTHoS
Ota Akihiko
Oyama Aiko
Ogawa Tomoki
Kawanami Yuzuki
Shimada Mina
Shirakawa Kanna
Sugita Mai
Sudo Rumi
Nakamura Kimiyo
Nagamori Airi
Nishizawa Eri
Miyagishi Junko
In-between Animators
STuDio PaTHoS
Teshigahara Tubasa
Nagura Yasuko
Animation Clean-up
ULY DOUGA
Asistant Compositor
Sotta Shunichi
Production Assistant
Shunsuke Fukui
Production Manager
Kakui Yoshiaki
Planning and Development
Animator Supporters
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Back to You
Music Staff
Director, Producer, Song-Writer, & Lyricist
Mason Lieberman
Orchestrator, Co-Arranger
Kevin Penkin
Lead Vocalists
Dawn M. Bennett
Morgan Berry
Donna Burke
Adriana Figueroa
Amelia Jones
Amanda Lee
Jason Paige
Caleb Hyles
Casey Lee Williams
Brina Palencia
Electric Guitar
Jules Conroy
Acoustic Guitar
David Gibson McLean
Saxophone
Carlos Eiene
Trumpet
John Robert Matz
Violin Ensemble
Jeff Ball
Diwa De Leon
Patti Rudisill
David Morales Boroff
Zack Rapp
Drums
Fabrizio Cavallaro
Mixing Engineer
Matthew Templeman
Mastering Engineer
Jett Galindo
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Kickstarter Backers
Anime Forever!
FranticRain
Allen Mak
Aja Alano
Geoff Thew
Elliot Jones
CommanderSqueaks
Joshua M Dreher
Kyle A Banks
Matthew Nash
Ricky Layes
Anthony Hanses
Carlos Castillo
Michael Harrison
Darius Engineer
Isaac Folzenlogen
Enrique Beltran
znobodyz
corey pack
Tony Gialdini
Claire Knight
Denn
James
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Sepalani
Chris
The Animator Supporter
Edjinchi
Jason Chance
Joshua Ward
placoly
Christian Steudtner
Wyatt
Collector
Girish Menon
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Gogetfunding Backers
Anime Forever!
David Lubling-Kolbow
Alex Schumacher
Juliane Martin
The Animator Supporter
Luis Olmeda
Charisse James
Collector
Madison Parker
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CAMPFIRE Backers
Anime Forever!
Toshihide Shimono
Hidenori
Shinichiro Tanaka
K-KO
Eri Eisu
TSURU Shota
Hyosoku Nishigaki
ITK
FUJITA Katsutoshi
The Animator Supporter
Masayasu Ueda
Koji Saeki
Shuji Yamauchi
Tomoro Iwabuchi
Otaku King!
Manga Sozai Kōbō
SHIRO“AO”TAKAGI
Koujirou Aoki
Yamata no Orochi
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Special Thanks To
Geoff & Yazy
Tristan Gallant
Random Watcher
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Translation and Interpretation
Garrett Hudspeth
Kiyomi Ong
Maggie Jennings
Production Facilitator
Noa Kurase
Producer
Jun Sugawara (Animator Supporters)
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Our sincerest thank you to all of our amazing backers, animators, and the musicians who donated their efforts to this cause!