Polygon Pictures
is a CGI-based Japanese studio first established in 1983. Their claims to fame are Transformers: Prime and The Sky Crawlers.
The Canipa Effect has produced an Anime Studio Spotlight about Polygon Pictures. Watch it here.
Shows, films and games worked on by Polygon:
- Ajin
- Bakujū Gasshin Ziguru Hazeru (with Ashi Productions)
- Blame!
- Drifting Dragons
- Fate/stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- GAMERA -Rebirth- (with ENGI)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (CG outsourced by Production I.G)
- Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
- Happily N'Ever After (rigging; with Mr. X, Nitrogen, Bardel Entertainment, The LaB Sydney, Elliott Animation and Quadriga FX)
- Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (rigging)
- Knights of Sidonia
- Levius
- Lollipop Chainsaw
- Lost in Oz (sans pilot; with Xentrix Studios for season 2)
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate Of Two Worlds (trailer)
- Mech Cadets
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Metroid: Other M (cutscenes)
- My Friends Tigger & Pooh (63 episodes)List
- Super Sleuth Christmas Movie (with Ittina Animation Studios)
- Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (CG outsourced by Production I.G)
- Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
- Pacific Rim: The Black
- Pingu in the City
- Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
- Random! Cartoons (1 short)List
- Resident Evil 5
- Ronja the Robber's Daughter (with Studio Ghibli)
- Show by Rock!!!! Mashumairesh!! (with Kinema Citrus)
- The Sky Crawlers (CG outsourced by Production I.G)
- Space Battleship Yamato (Live-Action Adaptation)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (seasons 3-6; with Lucasfilm Animation, Lucasfilm Singapore and CGCG Inc)
- Star Wars Resistance
- Stillwater
- Street Fighter IV (Opening Movie)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) (2D sequences; 9 episodes with Inspidea)List
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan (additional cinematics)
- Thief
- Transformers
- Transformers: Prime (won them 3 Emmys)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise (with drop and GONZO)
- Transformers: Devastation
- Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy
- TRON: Uprising
- Ultraman Cosmos (movies 2 and 3)
- Valiant (rigging and character modeling)
Tropes associated with Polygon:
- All-CGI Cartoon
- Animation Bump
- Animesque: Transformers Prime.
- Creator's Oddball: Although most of Polygon's work are action based, My Friends Tigger & Pooh was one of their more lighthearted work.
- Darker and Edgier: For anime works where they are the primary producer, they seem to have a special preference for dark and gritty shows, and they have a fittingly gritty art style to reinforce the tone.
- Cel Shading: A variant was used for TRON: Uprising that was soon adopted for their anime works. More traditional techniques can be seen in Ronja and Transformers: RiD.
- Medium Blending: Several of their works, most noticeably seen on Sky Crawlers and Transformers: RiD.
