Tokyo Animation Studios, Elffire City
Wednesday, June 16th
It was another high-intensity day of production at the studio. This week, the Naruto pipeline officially surged into an exciting new phase. After passing through a series of rigorous, multi-layered quality control checks, the final animation frames for the very first episode were completely finished and approved. The quality control process had successfully isolated and corrected every detectable anomaly, rendering the frames fully ready to be compiled into a smooth, definitive sequence.
Because of this milestone, the energy inside the Compositing Department had reached a thrilling new high. Ever since the studio wrapped up production on the Sword Art Online (SAO) anime, the department had been restricted to compiling rough, low-fidelity sketches for basic movement tests. After weeks of handling placeholder assets, the entire team was ecstatic to finally work on the real, finalized footage.
