Witch Hat Atelier: A Gallery of BUG FILMS Key Animation

Inside the drawings of Witch Hat Atelier

Throughout the run of Witch Hat Atelier, the studio producing the anime, BUG FILMS, has been quietly opening its sketchbook. Across the series it has released key animation, the raw genga drawings that capture a character's movement before color and compositing arrive, and this gallery gathers those cuts in one place, from the first teaser PV through the most recently aired episodes.

The art centers on Coco and her teacher Qifrey, with the fellow apprentices around them, including Agott, Riche, and Tartah, turning up as the story moves through its first arc. Several of the later cuts place the rough key animation next to chief animation supervision corrections, a rare side by side look at how a drawing is tightened on its way to the screen.

A note on coverage: BUG FILMS shares key animation for selected episodes rather than every one, so the set jumps from the teaser PV to episodes 1, 4, 7, 9, 10, and 11. Every image here comes from the studio's own account.