Halo: Legends now available at Take2 and Kalahari
Halo Legends is a collection of seven animated short films set in the Halo science-fiction universe. Financed by Halo franchise overseer 343 Industries, the stories were created by five Japanese production houses: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation. Shinji Aramaki, creator and director of Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina, serves as the project's creative director. The idea for an anime compilation existed for years before there was momentum for the project. 343 Creative director Frank O'Connor produced story outlines or finished scripts that the production houses animated in a variety of styles
Well the topic pretty much states the obvious, now ordinarily I would be pretty skeptical about something like this due in part to the failures of other game titles that tried to make the jump from gaming platform to animated media format. Especially when Western and Eastern animation studios come together, Deadspace being a prime example of such a failure but on the flip side you get great success stories like The Animatrix and Batman Gotham Knight. Good examples of what can be done when Western and Eastern companies come together.
And when they announced the upcoming anime based of the Halo franchise they threw some pretty big Japanese animation studio names around “Halo Legends” is an anime produced by Studio Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G , Studio4 C, and Toei Animation. A trailer for the project has been released which you can find below. What makes this even more epic is that Mamoru Oshii, director of the landmark anime Ghost in the Shell movies, borrowed his creative support for this collaboration. The street credit for this project has just shot up by a 100%, now all doubt that this is going to fail has all but left my thoughts completely.
You can find it on Take2 here and on Kalahari here.
Originally Posted by Tank
