What if we paid Japanese Animators fairly? - Animator Supports Presents: “Back to You“

It’s time to change the Japanese Animation Industry... ► 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! -------------------------------- 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! -------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- 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 st Sepalani Chris The Animator Supporter Edjinchi Jason Chance Joshua Ward placoly Christian Steudtner Wyatt Collector Girish Menon -------------------------------- Gogetfunding Backers Anime Forever! David Lubling-Kolbow Alex Schumacher Juliane Martin The Animator Supporter Luis Olmeda Charisse James Collector Madison Parker -------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- Special Thanks To Geoff & Yazy Tristan Gallant Random Watcher -------------------------------- Translation and Interpretation Garrett Hudspeth Kiyomi Ong Maggie Jennings Production Facilitator Noa Kurase Producer Jun Sugawara (Animator Supporters) -------------------------------- Our sincerest thank you to all of our amazing backers, animators, and the musicians who donated their efforts to this cause!