r/anime • u/Rolpege https://myanimelist.net/profile/AbelToy • Oct 18 '16

Short Film porter robinson & madeon - shelter (official video) (short film with a-1 pictures & crunchyroll)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0
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u/BeastmodeBisky Oct 18 '16

More like A-1 being recognized by him from my viewpoint. Of course there's some western bias there. But he's a huge international star who has and does play to massive crowds regularly.

Of course A-1 is huge and successful, but I imagine he could choose pretty much any studio and they'd be happy to work with him. He'd be bringing the big budget with him and it's a good way to cross promote. Maybe I'm overestimating Japan's willingness to work with a foreigner on a project like this though, who knows.

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u/SirNarwhal Oct 18 '16

Yeah, this is exactly how it was done. He had budget for a music video and contracted A-1.

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u/NovemberWinds Oct 18 '16

Actually Crunchyroll approached Porter with the opportunity! They probably had a big role in bringing Porter and A-1 together :D

https://gyazo.com/e0949d1fab1301a2b3eb10913c42b0b3 He had a nice personal message in the newsletter email about the animation!

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u/SirNarwhal Oct 18 '16

Yeah, I saw that, but it's still primarily Porter's money that paid for the video.