Animex Producciones (2000-2015, 2019-present)

**Animex Producciones** is a Mexican animation studio, established in Puebla, which specializes in digital animation productions for film and television. It was founded in 2000 by Ricardo Arnaiz. The studio utilizes the Toon Boom Animation software for 2D productions.

## Why It's An Underrated Mexican Digital Animation Studio?

1. This is the first Mexican digital animation studio founded by the filmmaker Ricardo Arnaiz.
2. One of the studio's earliest works was a series starring a trio of dogs called Diti, Don Pepi and Dom; which both the design, humour and characters seem to be slightly inspired by the 90's Nicktoons like Rocko's Modern Life and Ren & Stimpy.
3. For the early development of The Legend of Nahuala, the sketches and storyboards of the characters looked to be inspired by Tim Burton's drawings.
4. They were supported by the animator Phil Roman who participated in the creative consultancy.
5. As well as Ánima, they teamed up with a renowned company such as Universal Pictures for distributing Nikté.
6. The Revolution of Juan Escopeta is possibly their best film because of the atmosphere surrounding it and the message of growth.
7. While K9 World Cup may not be a great film because of its animation, it doesn't have such a bad story and the character design is passable.
	* It also has a message about partnership, teamwork and achieving goals.
8. As a fun fact, they made a pilot for the animated adaptation of El Chavo because at the beginning it was thought that they would do the series, however Televisa rejected it due to the low quality and ended up hiring Ánima Estudios.
9. They created the 2019 San Andrés Cholula film festival.
10. They are expected to return to animated film production in the future, with the feature film *The Last Colossus*, which could come out between 2025 and/or 2026.

## Bad Qualities

1. Meanwhile K9 World Cup is considered decent, their next animated feature is a disaster (Americano) due to wrong classification, the simplicity of the story, the poor handling of the migration issue in the script, the message that predicts the end of the film, the actions of the characters that give wrong morals to the children, the multiple mistakes on screen that are noticeable due to the low quality of the animation and the excessive product placement.
	* As well as an immense number of unstable characters for the audience such as: García, Lori, Dovo, Vovo, Martín, etc.
2. Nikté was a film that went into production hell for the following reasons:
	* Ricardo Arnaiz was sued by cartoonist Rolando Tamayo for allegedly using the names of characters Tamayo had created and altering them for the film.
	* All the names and places seen in the film are actually Mayan and not Olmec in origin, this could be because in the past, originally the first film that Animex was going to create focused on that culture and was to be titled Maya: The First Great Story. But due to creative differences between the actor Bruno Bichir and the singer Emmanuel during the making of the film, the film did not materialise and ended up being cancelled.
	* The film failed at the box office due to the competition it faced against major titles at the time: Avatar and The Princess and the Frog.
3. Heroes, its first live action film, was not liked by many due: Fictitious historical facts, very unnecessary moments of comedy, romance, idioms, the locations are not entirely accurate and at times the setting lacks reality.
4. The company has now ceased producing animated content, with its latest work being the short film Arts and After released in 2019.
	* Although, as mentioned, there is a possibility of their return.

## Movies who are on this wiki

### Animated

1. The Legend of Nahuala (2007)
2. Nikté (2009)
3. The Revolution of Juan Escopeta (2011)
4. K9 World Cup (2015)
5. The Last Colossus (TBA)