If you're interested in how anime is made and you're on Twitter, you need to follow Thomas Romain, a French artist living in Japan, working on designs for series such as Symphogear and the new Macross Delta. One of his recent, insightful explanations of how the industry works started with a clarification of what exactly an "art director" does in the anime production process. This lead to him diagramming the creative structure in a way that, you probably won't say "simplifies" the structure, but certainly illustrates it.
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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