"We each take what we need."
"Sunrise needs Sega's experience in digitization, and Sega needs Sunrise's visual expressiveness. Combine the two, and under the premise of controlling costs, we can produce the top visual effects of the era."
"Once the first level of generational training succeeds, it can benefit frontline staff such as key animators."
"It's not just technical exchange, but also the deep reuse of digital assets."
"After an anime is finished, what else can those cels and setting drafts do besides sit in a warehouse gathering dust?" Nakayama Takuya asked.
Yamaura Eiji could not answer.
Occasionally publish a settings book and earn a little pocket money from the fans?
Otherwise, at most, they could add a bit more work and put out a few posters to make some small change, but the ratio between manpower invested and returns simply could not be widened.
"After digitization, it's different." Nakayama Takuya painted a grand picture. "The Gundam 3D models Sunrise builds can be taken directly by Sega and put into games. The battle scenes made in the game can be rendered a little and used as distant shots in the anime.
"One set of materials, used on both sides, even reused across multiple product lines. The time costs and art expenses saved by that will definitely be no small number."
Yamaura Eiji listened, entranced.
This kind of industrialized production logic completely shattered the traditional workshop-style thinking of Japanese animation.
"Mobile Suit Victory Gundam from a few years ago had average ratings, but the mobile suits sold very well." Nakayama Takuya suddenly changed tack, cutting into concrete personnel arrangements. "The series of machines from Victory Gundam and V2 Gundam had good battle presentation in the anime and good quality as models, didn't they?"
Yamaura Eiji answered almost on reflex.
"Extremely outstanding.