Studio Pterano

Studio Pterano Co., Ltd. (株式会社スタジオプテラノ) was a Japanese animation studio, which was known for specializing extensively on limited animation—meaning reused animation, stiff animation, rotoscoping, and stock footage—in its OVAs and TV shows. It was founded on 25 November 1985 by animator Shūhei Yamazaki, and was headquartered in,.

From 2001 to February 2007, Studio Pterano was the owner of the animated video creation platform, YamaAnime (formerly known as Yamazaki Anime Maker).

Bio
Studio Pterano was founded on 25 November 1985 by Shūhei Yamazaki, following the critical and commercial failure of Twinkle Nora Rock Me! in which he worked on. He invited his close friends, fellow animators Seiichi Ihara, Shōta Yoshioka and Yūta Nishida, to the studio afterwards. From its early days, the studio concentrated on OVA production.

On 29 September 2001, Yamazaki founded the animated video creation platform called Yamazaki Anime Maker (now known as YamaAnime since 2004), and the first version of Yamazaki Anime Maker went live on 31 October.

On 9 June 2004, after Yamazaki's daughter Keiko announced his death caused by the yesterday, she decided to take over his position as the president and CEO of the studio.

Studio Pterano closed its doors on 29 April 2007. In more recent years, most of the studio's productions (OVAs and TV series) have become online sensations, due to mockery of its limited production values.

Planners

 * Takahiro Ueda
 * Momoka Morimoto
 * Kazuya Yamazaki

Producers

 * Shūhei Yamazaki
 * Seiichi Ihara
 * Shōta Yoshioka
 * Yūta Nishida

Screenwriters

 * Daiki Miyazaki
 * Takahiro Hayashi
 * Ai Matsumae
 * Noriyuki Fujii
 * Shizuo Wakabayashi

Storyboard Artists

 * Tamiko Takagi
 * Noriyuki Fujii
 * Daiki Okamura
 * Natsumi Yamashita

Character Designers/Animation Directors

 * Yōji Kinjō
 * Tatsuo Fujikawa
 * Tetsu Nomura
 * Akane Uchida
 * Susumu Hamasaki
 * Yōko Nakayama

Art Directors

 * Reiko Kawasaki
 * Natsuki Satō
 * Keiko Takeda
 * Akira Nomura
 * Naoki Miyake
 * Naoto Doi

Directors of Photography

 * Mitsuru Suzuki
 * Kazuhiko Yanagi
 * Toshio Taguchi
 * Kazuki Miyake
 * Daisuke Shibata

Key Animators

 * Yōji Kinjō
 * Daichi Nakamoto
 * Kazuki Nomura
 * Kazuyuki Ogata
 * Keiji Shibata
 * Susumu Hamasaki
 * Shōhei Kimura
 * Kazuki Kubota
 * Takumi Takahashi
 * Naoki Kawasaki
 * Kazuya Watanabe
 * Kazuya Matsumura
 * Ryohei Matsumoto

Inbetweeners

 * Takashi Nakamoto
 * Seiichi Matsuzaki
 * Harumi Yoshioka
 * Susumu Sugita
 * Shōichi Sugita
 * Kotono Sasaki
 * Yūdai Hinata
 * Shōhei Ishida

Color Coordinators

 * Kazumi Doi
 * Kazue Fukui
 * Hiromichi Matsumoto
 * Daiki Fukuda
 * Kenta Mori
 * Kenji Fujii

Cel Painters

 * Kōhei Matsumoto
 * Shōhei Nakajima
 * Naoko Nishihara
 * Kayoko Kuwabara
 * Hisako Gori
 * Hanako Nagao
 * Michihiro Ōmori (checker)
 * Hiroko Seki (checker)
 * Kiyoshi Yoshida (checker)

Background Artists

 * Teruhiko Ichikawa
 * Takahiro Hatakeyama
 * Taichi Ota
 * Takahiro Yagami
 * Daisuke Aoki
 * Jun Suzuki
 * Takahiro Yamamoto

Photographers/Camera Operators

 * Isamu Matsuzaki
 * Sukehiro Wakamatsu
 * Daiki Hamaguchi
 * Takae Ōnishi
 * Norihiko Suzuki
 * Toshiaki Takasu
 * Kenta Uchida
 * Kazuki Miyake
 * Daisuke Shibata

Editors

 * Yoshinori Itō
 * Hirohide Kabata
 * Yoshihide Ida
 * Katsunori Akagawa

Actors and Actresses

 * Kotone Suzuki
 * Akio Hori
 * Katsuyuki Nomura
 * Hiroyuki Morine
 * Hiroaki Umeda
 * Akihiko Takeuchi
 * Kazuhiro Gōda
 * Makiko Kobayashi
 * Yoshiko Arai
 * Toshiko Kamata

Sound Directors

 * Akihiko Oda
 * Daiki Hasegawa
 * Kazuki Uchida
 * Naoki Hayashi
 * Daiki Endo

Sound Mixers

 * Sadaharu Yoshino
 * Sadao Yoshino
 * Kanako Kadoguchi

Recording Engineers

 * Yasushi Muraoka
 * Kiyoshi Murano
 * Takahiro Morimoto

Production Managers

 * Reiji Ogata
 * Takahiro Morimoto
 * Momoko Saito
 * Ami Takeuchi
 * Haruka Fujita
 * Ayaka Shibata