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

I still feel Madoka lacks any kind of coherent sense of art direction. And the draftsmanship feels cheap as fuck, but without the appealing roughness of Birdy.

Also, I wasn't here for the P&S 13 discussion, but I will still put in my two cents: the art direction and storyboarding were better than the animation, or rather: the art direction and storyboarding called so much attention to themselves that the animation was completely overwhelmed by how good the overall visual composition was.