It lacked a lot of the regular Gainax modern animators that have been prominent in Gainax productions since Diebuster, people like Sushio, Nishigori, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Yuka Shibata, Shouko Nakamura, Shouko Nishigaki, Akemi Hayashi and Hiramatsu. The first 4 all have heavy involvement in IM@S and the following 3 have heavy involvement in PenDrum.
Is Amemiya really still with Gainax? Wouldn't he be the first to follow Imaishi to Trigger? He even animated Imaishi's storyboard for IM@S!
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Anonymous2011-10-19 13:16
Akitoshi Yokoyama's ep of IM@S confirmed yet?
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Anonymous2011-10-19 13:31
With Gainax, animators always had a certain amount of liberty. Remember Imaishi directed Dead Leaves at IG when he was still part of Gainax. Sushio beign chara designer on One Piece & Kiss Dum etc...
Amemiya, Hiramatsu, & Hayashi are still credited as staff member on the Gainax HP. So Hiramatsu might still come back after Eva 3.0.
& as far as we know Nishigori might go back after Im@s(or go to Trigger).
We just have to wait and see who will show up on their next orginal project but it will not be out before 2013. So we can wait.
The IM@S staff listing stuff that is posted with the scan and everything is released in Megami; Megami is released the 28/29 of every month. The confirmed staff listing for future episodes will be posted in 2ch next week, in either Thursday or Friday.
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Anonymous2011-10-19 18:23
Like the other anon said, Gainax allow lots of freedom to their staff on allowing them to work on other projects.
And If I remember correctly, Imaishi and co won't simply stop working on Gainax shows, they will still be there, doing KA, AD, Storyboards and episode directions. Its just unlikely that Imaishi will be creating another project at Gainax on his own.
Potentially he could create the project at Trigger, then bring in Gainax to help him animate it. This is likely given Trigger is just starting out, so they'll need a helping hand to get their foot onto the bigger world.
This is often the case with Studios born out of other Studios. It happened when BONES were born out of Sunrise. Xebec out of Production IG. Khara out of Gainax and so on.
IM@S 16 was pretty bad, like I feared. IM@S is a show that relies a lot on the staff involved caring for it. Not even the Mochizuki storyboard could save LOLOUTSOURCING, LOLANIMATION (by ADs whose main work has been in shit like Cardfight Vanguard or YuGiOh) and LOLDIRECTION. Oh well; Sushio as AD with Yuka Shibata directing and storyboarding next week! FUCK YEAH!
Next week, besides getting the SushioShibata episode, we should be getting the confirmed IM@S staff listing for episodes 18-21. I'm interested to see what Goripon's connections have in store for us next month.
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Anonymous2011-10-21 10:56
Am I the only one kinda disappointed with Guilty Crown? It looks good, but the animation isn't particularly impressive at all. There was only one cool-looking explosion in episode 2 despite the episode being filled with explosions. The acting isn't particularly great, either. I certainly didn't expect Fate/Zero to have much better character animation, at least.