Who were the founders of the studio acquired on February 1, 2017 by the owners of Arkane Studios?
ZeniMax Media ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American media company. The company is known for owning Arkane Studios (developer of "Dishonored" and "Prey"), BattleCry Studios (developer of "BattleCry"), id Software (developer of the "Doom" and "Quake" series, and "Rage"), MachineGames (developer of ""), Tango Gameworks (developer of "The Evil Within"), Bethesda Softworks with its Bethesda Game Studios (developer of "The Elder Scrolls" and "Fallout" series) and ZeniMax Online Studios (developer of "The Elder Scrolls Online"). ZeniMax is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, with offices in Asia / Asia Pacific, Australia and Europe (Germany, France, Benelux).
Topcraft Topcraft (トップクラフト, also written "Top Craft") was a Japanese anime studio established in 1971 by former Toei Animation producer Toru Hara. It was famous for doing animation for hand-drawn animation titles by Rankin/Bass and for the production of "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" and "". The studio went bankrupt and dissolved in June 15, 1985 essentially splitting the studio in half. Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata bought the studio when laying off most of its animation staff and changed its name to Studio Ghibli. . Topcraft's animators later formed another studio called Pacific Animation Corporation to continue to work with Rankin/Bass on shows like "ThunderCats" and "Silverhawks" but eventually joined Ghibli once the studio was bought out by Disney and became Walt Disney Animation Japan. Some animators like Tsuguyuki Kubo went to work for other anime studios such as Studio Pierrot working on "Naruto" and "Bleach" for them. In the end the buy out of Topcraft made the studio into the birth of Studio Ghibli. Topcraft's founder Toru Hara became Studio Ghibli's first manager.