Funimation Films

Project Role:Front-end developer

Coming off of the 2014 success of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Group 1200 Media launched its theatrical division appropriately titled FUNimation Films in December 2015. Group 1200 strives to deliver the best possible experience for it’s fans and the creation of the theatrical division is a key initiative to deliver on this promise. With the record breaking release of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, Attack on Titan: Part 1 & 2 and the upcoming release of Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie, 2015 has already proved to be a successful launch for FUNimation Films. In the future we look forward to continuing the enhancement of our fans experience by giving them the opportunity to enjoy premium anime and live action content in movie theaters with the company of friends and family.

Relationships between pages

Being able to create a single movie post and use that information across a multitude of widgets and pages was one of the fundamental tasks for this website

Slider Options

Start from scratch or use a movie

Image sliders for FUNimation Films needed to be robust enough to make announcements not related to a single movie; but obviously be able to talk about theatrical dates. In order to do this, both movie post and normal slide post each shared meta tables to print information to the page.

Smart pages

CHANGING AUTOMATICALLY

Options such as how many links an image slide has or whether a content link is in-bound, same page, or outbound all affect how a user explores a site. Built into the themes are post that look for these options and edit page hooks accordingly.

Flexible Content

Grow with the campaign

Working with a licensor we never know how much content we're going to receive from them; and how much we'll have to create ourselves. In order to expand a movie page with its campaign content needed to be flexible and grow as the theatrical run goes on.

Finding Theaters Near You

Fans need a place to find tickets for their favorite anime movies and having a locator built into each movie page was a must have.

Tickets on the go

Smart phones are a major part of our lives and FUNimation Films needed to cater by being responsive on every device.

Fan Destination

While the site centers around movies, there are other features built into the site such as theater locators and vendor downloads.

Scheduling movies

Date options are included to run movie campaigns on a starting date, between a set of two dates, or when to take it down.

Flexible Campaigns

Movie campaigns tend to take a long time to finish out so FUNimation Films was built with the thinking of taking a campaign from its announcement all the way to home video release.