Notice: the studio is no longer active.
Founding
I founded the studio in May 2016 and named it Ant Studio.
Work
Ant Studio began as a Minecraft discussion group. Its purpose was simply to entertain both ourselves and others. The studio also took responsibility for operating Minecraft servers.
The studio later explored video, animation, servers, and other fields. It became inactive after July 2017 and has remained dormant ever since—in practice, it ended.
Between 2016 and 2017, we completed many collaborative tasks, including server projects, website projects, and Minecraft map-planning projects. We tried to expand into different fields rather than limiting ourselves to Minecraft.
History
- September 29, 2015
- The Ant discussion group was created
This was AntJun’s first Minecraft discussion group, intended as a place for Minecraft enthusiasts to communicate. At the time, I created and released many of my own projects as a Minecraft player. After those projects attracted some attention in 2016, I created this group to bring more players together.
- The Ant discussion group was created
- May 1, 2016
- The Ant discussion group was renamed Ant Studio
I wanted to expand the team quickly, so Ant Studio became the name of the organization. It remained an entertainment-oriented, nonprofit group with few members, a small scale, and no legal registration. - Studio collaborations
The studio began communicating with other Minecraft studios, including Xuanlingyi Studio, Yanlin Studio, and Phantom Studio. There were no formal joint projects, only limited discussions and exchanges.
- The Ant discussion group was renamed Ant Studio
- October 1, 2016
- Ant Server began operating
Ant Server, also known as the Minecraft “Sunset Valley” server, was a small-to-medium public Minecraft server built by studio members. It ran on Alibaba Cloud and supported Ant Skin. Members continued updating and maintaining it while it was online, but the server closed after a little more than six months because of insufficient funding.
- Ant Server began operating
- January 1, 2017
- Ant Skin was launched
Ant Skin was a Minecraft skin site built jointly by dzpaji and AntJun and powered by Blessing Skin. It later closed when the hosting plan expired and nobody renewed it.
- Ant Skin was launched
- July 2017
- The studio became dormant
I may eventually publish a detailed blog post about June 26, 2017 and what happened afterward.
- The studio became dormant
- 2018–2019
- No activity
Members
The membership history is not entirely clear. Some people joined and left quickly, some withdrew for long periods, and some were only short-term collaborators. The list below records everyone who joined or collaborated with us, in memory of the unlikely friendships we formed in such a vast world.
Member List
The names are not ranked or ordered by importance.
- AntJun
- WHK
- dz_paji
- Star_leap
- Xin_Ruan
- AN
- Divine Jade
- Little Lie
- Dream Knower
- Dark
- Snoopy Wanderer
- JinQiu
- Pinefield Landwind
- Sheep
- dy
- db
- huanghun
- LSP