Nethertales LLC
Anime for Games & Beyond
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2024
- Employees
- 1-10
- Offices
- 1
About Nethertales LLC
Nethertales Studio is a boutique animation production and creative marketing studio serving independent and AA game developers, digital entertainment publishers, and comics clients. Founded in 2024, it uses anime-inspired visual language to create cinematic storytelling and promotional work for games, books, and digital campaigns.
The studio’s work spans in-game cutscenes, pre-rendered narrative sequences, launch and announcement trailers, character-action reels, animated comics, and full anime opening sequences. Its approach draws on expressive character art, dramatic pacing, kinetic typography, parallax depth, and sound-synchronised motion to help clients present their IP in a compelling format.
Production capabilities
- Pre-production: IP discovery, audience and visual-pillar analysis, concept art, storyboarding, and animatics.
- 2D animation: Layout, key animation, in-betweens, animation direction, character design, background art, and colour styling.
- 3D and technical art: Animation, modular game-asset animation, rigging, and in-engine implementation.
- Post-production: Compositing, lighting, visual effects, colour grading, and final mastering.
- Collaboration models: Art-production outsourcing, milestone-based co-development, and creative marketing campaigns.
Nethertales has worked across gaming and comics, with credits including animated cutscenes and a reveal trailer for Dead as Disco; a Kickstarter trailer for Seed of Nostalgia; promotional animation for Kamen America; and an animated opening for Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago. Other reported projects include trailers or animation for Scarlet City of Devils, Witchy Business, Detained: Too Good for School, and Demon's Ascension.
The studio operates under the tagline “Anime for Games & Beyond” and combines animation production with creative marketing intended for digital distribution, including game launches, event reveals, and social-facing campaigns.
More about Nethertales LLC
Leadership and operating model
- Carlin Michel founded the studio and leads its creative vision, story development, and visual direction from brief through final delivery.
- Nas Nakarus is the marketing lead, overseeing commercial outreach, client growth, and campaign strategy.
- Nethertales uses a lean core team supported by a distributed roster of more than 10 anime specialists and technical artists. The company describes this model as allowing it to scale production for projects while serving independent and AA developers.
Production method
Its documented workflow is organised around four phases: Discovery, Concept & Storyboard, Animation, and Compositing & Delivery. The animation stage can include layout, keyframe genga, in-between douga, and sakkan supervision before lighting, visual effects, cinematic grading, and final delivery.
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Where Nethertales LLC is based
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Philadelphia office
HeadquartersActive operating and leadership base for the remote-first studio; creative direction and production management originate here.
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