Nintendo has shed extra gentle on the Near You movies it launched this week, seemingly cooling expectations that they referred to an upcoming recreation or film.
On Tuesday, Nintendo posted the primary Near You video with no clarification or description, providing an animated brief a few child chasing a dummy / pacifier which seemed to be floating round their bed room.
The next day, Nintendo posted one other video, once more known as Near You, on its Nintendo At present app. This model is a shot-for-shot duplicate of the primary, however this time all of the Pikmin within the scene, which had been beforehand invisible, can now be seen.
The movies seemingly performed on the lore set by the Pikmin Bloom cellular recreation, which means that Pikmin inhabit present-day Earth however can’t be seen by the human eye.
Followers had beforehand been speculating about what the primary video meant, and when the second video was launched that hypothesis turned as to whether it meant a brand new Pikmin recreation, film or animated collection could possibly be on the best way.
Nevertheless, in a brand new put up on the corporate’s official Japanese X account, Nintendo has said that each animations had been brief movies created by its Nintendo Photos animation studio, implying that they aren’t essentially teasing any future venture associated to them.
“We hope you loved the 2 Near You movies launched on October 7 and eight,” the corporate’s assertion reads. “The second video is out there on Nintendo At present, a free app accessible in your good system.
“These are the primary brief movies created by Nintendo Photos Co., Ltd. Nintendo Photos will proceed to discover new artistic potentialities via video content material.”
Nintendo acquired Japanese CG firm Dynamo Photos again in 2022, then renamed it Nintendo Photos. Previously, earlier than its Nintendo rebranding, the corporate created CG animation for various films and TV reveals, together with Yuri on Ice, Aya and the Witch and season two of Netflix‘s Ghost within the Shell SAC_2045.
It additionally labored on CG in Ultimate Fantasy XIII-2, and has supplied movement seize for such titles as Loss of life Stranding, Nier Replicant, Monster Hunter World and Persona 5.
This week’s animations weren’t the corporate’s first work on Pikmin. Below its Dynamo Photos title, the studio helped with the CG cutscenes in Metroid: Different M, and produced a collection of Pikmin ‘brief films’ in collaboration with Shigeru Miyamoto for show on Wii U and 3DS.
An organization message posted on the rebranded Nintendo Photos web site in 2022 learn: “By means of our movies, we goal to make Nintendo characters identified to clients all over the world and create one-of-a-kind movies that may stay of their reminiscences without end.”
