Linnea Kataja and Bellamy Luna Brooks

Tokyo for two The Japanese-based duo take us inside their shared home studio and explain how it all came together

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“When I’m not in-person at an anime studio helping out with their projects, this is where I do most of my work,” Linnea explains. “My partner Bellamy and I have our work desks together, mine is on the left and hers is on the right.

“We wanted to create a cute and comfy atmosphere to work on our projects together. Our main work is as keyframe supervisors, helping quality control the drawings of the animation in the Japanese anime pipeline to make sure that the characters are on-model, the perspective is correct, and so on. In order to do this we’ll partially or fully redraw animation frames to make sure they match the look of the rest of the show. We also help to correct parts of the animation on request of the director and assistant director for the shows we’re working on. Bellamy also does character designs and I do storyboarding for some other indie animation projects.