{"id":138714,"date":"2025-11-03T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=138714"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:49:58","slug":"a-1-pictures-cloverworks-set-up-flint-base-studio-for-aspiring-animators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/11\/03\/a-1-pictures-cloverworks-set-up-flint-base-studio-for-aspiring-animators\/","title":{"rendered":"A-1 Pictures, CloverWorks Set Up FLINT BASE Studio For Aspiring Animators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Anime production studios <strong>A-1 Pictures<\/strong> and <strong>CloverWorks<\/strong> (formerly A-1 Pictures&#8217; Koenji Studio) have teamed up to establish <strong>FLINT BASE<\/strong>, a Tokyo-based animation outfit that&#8217;s aimed at providing newcomers with training and experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Entrants&#8217; time at FLINT BASE (up to two years) will begin with them learning the basics of the animation medium and picking up in-between animation skills. The work there is primarily related to in-betweening, with a focus on CloverWorks and A-1 Pictures projects.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">FLINT BASE will open its doors in April 2026. Recruitment is scheduled to begin within that year, with plans to take on more than 10 people. FLINT BASE is a part of CloverWorks, so those who get in will be signed on as contracted employees of the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">When explaining the background for FLINT BASE&#8217;s creation, <a href=\"https:\/\/flintbase.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its website<\/a> says that CloverWorks and A-1 Pictures have been striving to take on new graduates and cultivate in-house staff. However, the limited number of bodies to serve the purposes of recruitment and training narrowed the scope.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A-1 Pictures and CloverWorks are subsidiaries of the&nbsp;Sony Music Entertainment-owned Aniplex.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p-recruit__lead-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CloverWorks\/status\/1985557874475745674\"><span style=\"color: initial\">@CloverWorks<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anime production studios A-1 Pictures and CloverWorks (formerly A-1 Pictures&#8217; Koenji Studio) have teamed up to establish FLINT BASE, a Tokyo-based animation outfit that&#8217;s aimed at providing newcomers with training and experience.\u00a0 Entrants&#8217; time at FLINT BASE (up to two years) will begin with them learning the basics of the animation medium and picking up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":138715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,14,626,12064],"class_list":["post-138714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-a-1-pictures","tag-anime","tag-cloverworks","tag-flint-base"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FLINT-BASE-e1762240676518.png?fit=730%2C411&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-A5k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138793,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138714\/revisions\/138793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}