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Is [Anime Studio](http://anime.smithmicro.com/) used by any popular Anime
studios for actual, commercial Anime production?

I know it's fairly common with amateurs and quite a few Western Animation
professionals, but has it ever been used to produce a full season of an
_anime_ series that was aired in Japanese TV, or some Anime of comparable
scale? Or is just a marketing twist, and only ever Western animation of
professional quality has been made in it?


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Is "Anime Studio" animation software used professionally in making anime?


If Japanese anime studios do use this software, you'd think [their user
stories](http://anime.smithmicro.com/user-stories.html) would consist of at
least someone from Japan or someone who's done work with a Japanese studio.

The software itself seems more geared towards a small team (or one person)
production which doesn't seem to fit in a large scale production involving
dozens of animators, in-betweeners, story-boarders, etc.

I know that Makoto Shinkai (Voices of a Distant Star, 5cm/s) uses _Celtx_ ,
_After Effects_ and stuff like _Photoshop_ and _Illustrator_. He's done one
person projects. I also see [Comic Works](http://www.comic-works.com/)
mentioned a lot on Japanese blogs. But it seems most large productions use
software called "RETAS". I can't provide any sources to substantiate this
claim but it's probably unlikely Japanese studios would use this software that
looks like it's geared for smaller productions and use it for commercial anime
production, it's more likely that they use a lot of different types of
software to facilitate the process of writing->story-boarding->key-
frames->inbetweens on a much larger scale. [This blog post about AIC's
animation process](http://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-
detailed-guide-to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-it/) makes it out to
be pretty complex.


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