Animation Appreciation Thread #3

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

Animation Blogs [Eng]:
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/
http://aninomiyako.wordpress.com/

Animation Twitters [Eng]:
http://twitter.com/raito_kun
http://twitter.com/Duune99
http://twitter.com/kyouray
http://twitter.com/catsuka

Previous threads:
#1 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1291816034
#2 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1314681601

I want to move away from using the term "Sakuga" as it often alienates people and can be misleading. There has been a bit of backlash against the Sakuga movement lately, and I'd like to think many people come to this thread to talk about the animation and visual aspect of anime, which is something that often gets overlooked elsewhere. It would be nice if we could get a wider appreciation of visuals in the anime fandom without being seen as elitists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISxrmQC4jLg

anybody else interested in seeing how Muvluv Alt: TE will turn out? The tests for the CGI mecha don't look half bad, they look pretty decently shaded. Kinda surprising since Satelight didn't really do a good job with the CGI on Macross Frontier. Or Aquarion Evol for that matter. I really hope that we get some good 2D animated bits and pieces here and there, age seems to actually give a crap about the adaptions for its stuff.