Crimson Studios

Crimson Studios is an American film/television production studio based in El Paso, Texas. It is responsible for the production of Crimson and OverShadowed, their main flagship franchises, as well as other unnamed productions. It was initially founded in late 2020, with the original premiere of the YouTube version Crimson: Season 1 but used its current name Crimson Studios professionally for its high school UIL animation entry Fake Gangsters in February 4, 2021. The chief executive officer (CEO) and founder is Ame Matoi known legally as Raul Michael Fernandez and its co-founder and chief operations officer is Georgalin Mitchell, who is also the voice actor for Amanda Del Santo since Season 1.

Leo Caldera was a co-founder of Crimson Studios, as of 2022, he unexpectedly left without any apparent reason, explanation, or warning.

## History

Formerly known as Crimson Team, it was founded in Socorro High School when Ame Matoi was a senior, along with aforementioned Leo Caldera and Georgalin Mitchell inside a media room with a green screen and a minimal echo room. In this room, voice lines were recorded for Season 1 of Crimson, or Crimson Origins.

## Crimson Season 1

was the first aet of animations put out by the studio, mainly consisting of the Crimson trio finding themselves in stupid situations, such as the middle of a desert for a cactus to win a cooking competition, or being harassed by their local GameStop employee. Episode 0 debuted on May 21, 2021 but Season 1 Episode 1 of Crimson officially debuted on May 22, 2021 and ended on May 18, 2022. Season 1 had 13 episodes excluding the UIL version of Fake Gangsters and the Season 1 special episode where each curse word was counted for the hell of it.

## Crimson Season 2: Ame in the Multiverse of Crimson

On June 17 of 2022, Crimson Season 2, often known as Ame in the Multiverse of Crimson, or AITMOC for short debuted. It didn’t go smoothly, and was not completed but completely retconned, it only had two episodes and introduced the Crimsonverse, the multiverse into the Crimson story. It followed the animation universe variant of Ame, A1770 and her older variant, Ame Ryuko Soria from ARTX3090 as they both jump through random universes to clone a version of Ame's furry self that A1770 killed before A1770 is deleted from the system.

## Crimson Season 3

On July 29, 2022, Season 3 made it's debut with Drive Thru, the first animation to be made outside of the school and in Ame Matoi's house. Season 3 had 7 episodes and was the first season in the series to have it's own story that pertained to the Crimsonverse canon, Pokémon Crimson. This three part subseries follows A1770 Ame and her Pokémon universe variant PKMN2000 Ame on a journey to become the best trainer around. This subseries had much firsts for Crimson Studios, such as the first fully hand-drawn episode, first animation to have it's own original soundtrack and having the longest animation on the channel, with Pokémon Crimson Part 2 being 10 minutes and 3 seconds, beating Cacti from Season 1 which had 8 minutes and 13 seconds then with Pokémon Crimson Part 3 setting a record high of 15 minutes and 17 seconds. Pokémon Crimson was so popular and successful, Crimson Studios created Pokémon Crimson: XPEDITIONS, an individual story set after the main story focusing on PKMN Ame, Yua and Gardevoir with a goal on becoming best in the nation while looking into PKMN Ame's personal issues further.

Season 3 ended on April 18, 2023.