AD Vision Announces Start of Lady Death Movie

AD Vision has issued a new press release that includes detail on the start of production for the Lady Death animated movie. Written and directed by Carl Macek, best known to anime fandom as the writer and director of Robotech and co-writer of Heavy Metal 2000, the feature length film will be digitally animated by Korean animation studio SunMin Image, whose previous work includes Batman: TAS, Gargoyles, Disney’s Hercules, MTV’s The Maxx, and Pearl Jam’s music video “Do The Evolution.” The production is not being produced by a Japanese studio because AD Vision apparently wants to avoid the “clichés” of Japanese animation.

“This is not an attempt to clone anime production techniques,” says executive producer John Ledford. According to Carl Macek, “Over the last 10 years, Japanese animation techniques have become accepted norms around the world… But what is apparent in any survey of anime is that, in many instances, it has become a case of style over substance. Working to take projects out of clichéd design cycles and produce a unique vision based on subject matter and core audience is key to ADV’s plans.”

Source: Anime on DVD