TAKASHI MURAKAMI, is now poised to become the country’s modern version of Walt Disney after news this week that he’s poised to set up a new animation studio in LA in summer 2009.
Operating under the umbrella of KAI KAI KIKI, his artist management & personal production company, the studio will be located on North Highland Ave in close proximity to the nexus of Hollywood studio activity.
Having proved his studio’s formidable animation chops with the Kai Kai Kiki-produced video for Kanye West’s “Good Morning,” and the “Superflat Monogram” short for Louis Vuitton, the company’s first pursuit will be the expansion of Murakami’s playfully fecal-friendly “Planting the Seeds” shorts starring his signature characters Kai Kai and Kiki that debuted at his “© Murakami” show in LA and Brooklyn last year into a feature-length film. Said Murakami about his new move into cartoons, “Animation and film have always been among my greatest influences, ever since I first saw ‘Star Wars’ and Hayao Miyazaki’s films. This studio represents a great step in the evolution of Kai Kai Kiki and gives me a closer proximity to the community of artists with whom I hope to collaborate as I continue my explorations of animated and live-action film.”
This was the best news I heard all day. I always figured that was the next step with him was getting into directing as Andy Warhol before him. It amazes me to even be alive the same time as him because he is this generations biggest artist. Nowadays being an artist doesnt bring you the fame it once did due to every other faucet of entertainment we had. We need to remember Da Vinci, Picasso, and Dali were the superstars of their time. To see Murakami have such mainstream success is very exciting to me because we are exposed everything he does. He was also Time's 100 most infuential people of 2009 and the only artist that can say that this year.
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