Sakuga Thread #1

So here's an attempt at to get some long term Sakuga discussion going here.

Some Links:
The Sakuga Wiki [JP] - http://www18.atwiki.jp/sakuga/
ANN - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/

English Sakuga Blogs:
http://aninomiyako.wordpress.com/
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/

English Sakuga Twitters:
http://twitter.com/raito_kun
http://twitter.com/Duune99
http://twitter.com/kyouray
http://twitter.com/catsuka

To start things off, here's a Summer Wars MAD with Key animator's listed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpoHxWV3IG0

>>640
Kenichi Kutsuna?

Sometimes I wonder why we actually care about the animators so much, they really don't care much, if they would, they would do their own showreel, japanese animators are kind of different from americans. Americans are proud of their works, but the japanese ones are kind of just doing it because there is no other choice...well at most of the studios. I'm not talking about animators like Nishio or Ohira.

I wish people in japan would care more about their animators.
Animators are like slaves in japan....

>>642
Animators aren't treated like superstars over there, but they still have an active fandom. Most of the high-profile animators we know today started out as mere fans of animation, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzxe2eXDLJI

Notice for theater
http://fainaru.maeda-keiji.com/

>>642
I'd say the situation isn't THAT bad, many of the popular directors of anime started out as mere animators, see Hideaki Anno as a great example. There is a situation and the animators are trying to do something about it, but as with many things that are tradition in Japan, changing the system for animators is going to be a tough challenge. A few studios like KyoAni & Gainax are going in the right direction by nurturing their young talent and giving them good pay, good work hours and interesting projects to work on. But yeah, there are many studios out there that still run on old models based on pre-digital era animation processes and many budgets are also very badly planned and so on.

>I wish people in japan would care more about their animators.
You say that, but how many actual American or European Aniamtors do you know off the top of your head? Unless you are into the American cartoon industry, you probably won't know much. Same applies here.

Eiji Nakata（中田栄治） MAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpbqayWfgAE
Looks like a very good BONES and Sunrise Mecha animator.

Shingo Abe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzxe2eXDLJI

So BLEACH Need This Animator

Why did the English sakuga discussion die (more or less)?

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>ep#06 (camping part)
I completely forgot about trips. Anyway that was the best part.

Fate/Zero PV

http://www.fate-zero.jp/movies/index.html

THIS GONNA BE A LEGEND

>>648
I don't know. It certainly picked up a lot towards the end of last season when a lot of shows were ending, but after that, everything lost steam.

>>648

not to mention there hasn't been much interesting animation to speak of lately. Not very many shows this season are sakuga heavy. X-men, Nichijou and maybe AnoHana/Hanasaku are the only shows with consistently intriguing animation, composition or direction.

>>650
Uhhhhh...

Well has any body seen Colorful yet

>>655
I'm waiting for the subs

Colorful is a title I've been really waiting for. It looks so much different than anything Hara Keiichi directed so far. And the animator list, although rather small for a feature film, is heavy on top names. Matsumoto Norio, Itou Nobutake, Makihara Ryoutarou, Sueyoshi Yuuichirou, Yamashita Hiroyuki (his first non-Naruto work for years?), Saitou Takuya, etc.

>>656
Makihara and Sueyoshi are kinda expected, I guess, since it's a Hara film. And Ito came aboard because of the both of them? Norio Matsumoto is welcome everywhere. I'm just curious why Sunrise of all people tapped Hara for this movie.

an new  Shingo Yamashita MAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Xvzjzi9cw

:D

Hello! I'm author of "Wagon no Kamisama". Please call me Merry!
I am glad to be a person who likes japanese animations in other countries!

>>660
Oh hello, I've read your blog a few times. Well, I look at the pictures, but still a nice blog.

This is your site, right http://alien701.blog117.fc2.com/ ?

>>661
Yes.Thank you for watching my blog!

>>662
To be honest, I was mainly following your blog for SRW OG and Star Driver, but you stopped your SRW coverage after a few eps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Fc5qgE9PM&feature=feedf

>>664
Thats Hiroki Tanaka's bit.

there was a Sushio cut in this week's X-men, but it wasn't terribly exciting lol

>>666
I hear the visual direction or post processing on the show is so bad that you can't see anything lol.

Anybody have the rest of this book?

http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1129327

>>668

Some anon posted this on /a/ a few weeks ago.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tny9el1kdbi2ndd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHoU-4FROxM

>>669
That was me actually (OP of the thread)
Here's the second volume: http://www.mediafire.com/?551ul6vy47aaogx

First volume has art from:
SGT = Shigeto Koyama
超人体系 = You Yoshinari
2019 NEO-TOKYO = Sushio
志宇舞 = Hiroyuki Imaishi
西村キヌ = Nishimura Kinu
ロミ夫 = Hiromi Wakabayashi
ゴリ☆PON先生 = Atsushi Nishigori

Second volume has art from:
SGT = Shigeto Koyama
コザキユースケ = Kozaki Yuusuke
ことぶきつかさ = Kotobuki Tsukasa
政尾翼 = Tsubasa Masao
濱元隆輔 = Hamamoto Ryousuke
志宇舞 = Hiroyuki Imaishi
超人体系 = You Yoshinari
2019 NEO-TOKYO = Sushio
ロミ夫 = Hiromi Wakabayashi

>>669
>>671
Thanks!!

Masashi Kudo MAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BLmaMb6JGY

[c] this week had a cut from Tanaka and Yoshihiko Umakoshi

>>674
if u r talkin' about ep06
i don't think tanaka and yoshihiko worked in it
those whom worked in the ep are Sushio and Ryo-timo

Star Driver Visual Materials vol. 1

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CYV4VIO5

>>676
Awesome, thanks!

Sakuga panel at a USA anime con - Surprisingly the people know their stuff and talk about the animation process and the history of it and how Japanese Animation went from Disney-like full motion 24 fps to what it is today.

http://www.youtube.com/user/te2rx

>678
KUNAHDUH
BAHKAYMONOGATURI

>>678
Great watch.