Inside the inspiring studio of Linnea Kataja and Bellamy Luna Brooks - the anime artists bringing magic to life
Briefly

Linnea Kataja and Bellamy Luna Brooks are artists in the Japanese anime industry. They work as keyframe supervisors and character designers, contributing to TV anime and online creators. Their workspace features douga and sakuga desks typical of traditional anime studios. They aimed to create a cute and comfy atmosphere for collaboration. Their tasks include maintaining character consistency and quality control in the animation pipeline, as well as redrawing frames to align with the show's style. They mainly utilize digital tools but have traditional equipment like light tables.
"When I'm not in-person at an anime studio helping out with their projects, this is where I do most of my work," Linnea explains. "My partner Bellamy and I have our work desks together, mine is on the left and hers is on the right."
"We wanted to create a cute and comfy atmosphere to work on our projects together. Our main work is as keyframe supervisors, helping quality control the drawings of the animation in the Japanese anime pipeline to make sure that the characters are on-model, the perspective is correct, and so on."
"In order to do this, we'll partially or fully redraw animation frames to make sure they match the look of the rest of the show. We also help to correct parts of the animation on request of the director and assistant director for the shows we're working on."
The desks we are using are douga and sakuga desks, normally found in traditional anime studios in Japan. They have a few small shelves on the right side to hold animation paper, and a light table underneath to help with traditional animation.
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