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.

>>880
It's the proper Ending I think.

Gundam AGE OP3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-W_XRzQlkY

Director & Storyboards: Masami Obari
Mecha AD: Otsuka Ken
Chara AD: Michinori Chiba

KA: Various AGE regulars + Ishino Satoshi, Otsuka Ken, Mutaguchi Hiroki, Ogomori Yukihito, Masahiro Yamane & Obari himself.

Didn't expect him to direct an actual OP, it's pretty cool.
I'm guessing the final cut on the moon is Obari himself.

>>879

Fanservice in my new KyoAni anime?

>Takemoto

Ah I see....

>>879

Whoah. What gives?

As much as I liked the way Eru bounced at 0:43, I can't think of any particular reason how this is relevant to the shows premise.

fanservice is always relevant

at least its classy and well animated

>at least its classy
I want NeoGAF to leave

>classy
http://imgur.com/78n76

>>882
Oh yeah, looks so fucking BARI.
Gundam with Team Obari. i think they should make a new gundam series

Keep going KenOh, your work is excellent.

>>887
Are the costumes from a set time period or something?

Mayaka's headdress makes her look like a milk maid

>>882
That transformation scene and pose was Mutaguchi?

>>888
I just want to know a famous animators for Obari style

I only know of mutaguchi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SURlZ6iEFM

>>891
wrong link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr_aHKae174#t=1m35s

>>891
Obari Masami - Probably Japan's Number 1 mecha animator.
Yamane Masahiro - Master of the 90s Yuusha anime series. Obari's partner, just as famous.
Kabashima Yousuke - Calls himself "The Final Obarism" - Draws good Mecha and Chara.
Yoshida Tooru - Big animator at Studio "Anime R" - An old animator who shows off many styles.
Yuichi Nakazawa - Another big ani at Anime R - mainly does Mecha AD.
Kusumegi Shinya - Big Sunrise animator, worked on Gundam 00 series.
Iwaki Kouji - Another big ani at Sunrise, manly does Mecha AD.
Abe Munetaka - Famous for working on the Japanese made Transformer series.
Shigeta Satoshi - Famous for Dendoh and Gundam SEED Mecha AD. His scene in ep 7 was great. /TL: It was the Gespy Kick
Suzuki Fujio - Well known for the Getter Robo OVA series. He handled all 120 cuts in the Beowulf fight in ep one.
Nishii Masanori - Gundam 00 Mecha AD w/ Long time Friendship with Obari.
Mutaguchi Hiroki - Recently became famous with Gurren Lagann. Was in charge of Daizengar's Single Sword Strike.
Otsuka Ken - In charge of Gaiking LODM, in charge of Grungust Sanshiki in ep 15. Working hard on Star Driver at the moment.
Nakatani Seiichi - Regular on GaoGaiGar and many others, worked on Daizengar in ep 15.
Saito Yoshinari - Obari style Animator - famous for Belka Style Animation. /TL Something to do with Nanoha's QUALITY on TV airing vs DVD fixes
Akira Amemiya - Gainax Animator who specialises in Obari style animation.
Shingo Suzuki - GoHands Animator

>>890
I might have got it wrong, Obari said on Twitter the main title pose (+the red and blue AGE1 and 2) and transformation scene was his animation work. Though he didnt say what else he did.

It could be he did the final scene too, but it could also be Mutaguchi's work too, or maybe Otsuka Ken.. kinda hard to tell without them actually saying it. I'm leaning towards it's Obari himself, since he said on twitter he was the last person to stay behind when they were animating something.

A little annoying that Otsuka Ken made his account on twitter set to private, can't stalk him any more as he often tells everyone who animated what.

Ishino Satoshi did the scene with Wendy at 0:05.
Masahiro Yamane did the bit at 1:13 with the space armour pack.

Kabashima Yousuke wanted to help too, but he is working on Accel World as one of the chief ADs so he didn't have time to help out.

new animator sakuga mad please

>>891
As for Obari style animators just read the above list I posted in the previous thread based on a 2ch post IIRC. It was written for the Super Robot Wars anime that aired in fall 2010, in case it reads a little out of context.

-Jun Arai is sort of an Obari style animator ( 2 parts Masahito Yamashita & 1 part Obari), he likes to mimic the old school style of the 80s OVAs.
MAD - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fonv0BpUnSo

-Suzuki Takuya & Tatsuya were Obari style animators in the 90s(mostly on the Yuusha series), not sure if they still follow it any more.
A good example of their Obari style work was for the retro animations in the Geppy-X video game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nA9FOobKYA

-Takashi Hashimoto said in an interview that in his early days he was a follower of Obari, then of course he learned from Mitsuo Iso and Shinya Ohira but he says when he draws mecha he still likes to draw them in the Obari style.
-Yasushi Muraki's timing in his mecha animation is close to that of the Obari style. Muraki worked on several works with Obari in his early years.
-Nakazawa Kazuto says the bigest influence he recieved was from Obari Masami, Nakazawa was originally a member of Obari's studio and worked on many works with him.
-Takeshi Koike also says Obari is one of the people who influenced him (along with Kawajiri, Kanada & Peter Cheung)
-Yutaka Nakamura said when he was just starting out, he really wanted to work on something with Obari style so he asked to be allowed to work on Tekkaman Blade.
-Hiroyuki Imaishi says when he was younger he was really hooked on Obari's animation and says just as Kanada's Bryger OP inspired many young people to become animators, Obari's Dragonar OP did the same for a new generation.

Bryger OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3xErOSIDBU
Dragonar OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_hRanwD-yw

>>896
dude awesome
that Dragonar OP is really good.

>>893
>Akira Amemiya - Gainax Animator who specialises in Obari style animation.

Amemiya is better known for being Imaishi Jr., though.

I'd say he's a bit of both. He definitely has that Imaishiness, but look at all of his Gurren Lagann mecha drawings &posing and it's undoubtedly Obari inspired.

Heck on the 2nd Gaiking OP, the gattai scene was actually by Amemiya, the sakuga wiki lists it wrong as being by Obari instead.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4VNt2olbNQ

http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/o/8538

OKIURA!!!
http://www.anivideo.tv/watch/17550.html

>>899

I think the main difference is that Amemiya can definitely do character animation and Obari... can't. At all.

>"Hiroyuki Okiura needed seven years to complete this incredibly beautiful, handmade animated story, but it was worth the wait."
>seven years handmade

http://www.awn.com/news/awards/letter-momo-wins-best-feature-anifest-2012

>>902
>and Obari... can't. At all.
I disagree but it's more he doesn't really bother with it any more. Watch the Dragonar OP, it's a solo animation work, can you honestly tell me those characters badly drawn or drawn by some who can't do chara animation at all?

What about these other intros done solo by Obari, while they mainly feature mecha but they also have characters drawn by him that are not badly drawn.
Exkaiser- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF4tr2a9aJY
Fighbird- http://youtu.be/w8vcqCHEpvg?t=29s
Might Gaine- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_AZikitKcs - the scene at 0:21 is quite nice. However the scene with the girl on the cliff at 0;54 was done by Ishida Atsuko.

I mean I know he's not a master at character animation like say Toshiyuki Inoue or Yutaka Nakamura. But he isn't /that/ bad.

>>901
Wow, those girls are pretty.
and Okiura too.

Aniplex/Dengeki G's Magazine, original anime project
http://www.vinto-de-pint.com/

The keyword :
1 The theme is friendship
2 The MC is 14 year old girl
3 The Director doing character designs.

Announcement on May 30.

So, who's the director?

>>906
aniplex+moe magazine+director being designer = A1 and Nishigori?

>>906
>2 The MC is 14 year old girl
Lolicon Ryochimo

>>895
Tatsuya Oishi MAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC7GzPt_vls

>>908
Ooh, I hope so.

>>906
Updates
Keyword 4 - The genre is Girls Sci-Fi Action.

Probably Ryochimo

Why can't it ever be a 24 year old girl.

The Aniplex producer is Hironori Toba, he has Idolm@ster and Gurren-Lagann to his name. I think it's Nishigori.

We know that it's bishoujo anime that needs cute girls designs and that the director is doing said character designs. In recent years, three directors have stood out for being both character designers and directors in bishoujo anime:

-Kazuhiro Takamura (Strike Witches)
-Atsushi Nishigori (Idolm@ster)
-Ryochimo (Yozakura Quartet)

It's going to be one of these 3 or a directorial debut.

First: Meh
Second: Cool
Third: Hell yeah!

Takamura has drawn the cutest girls and made the best anime out of the three

Lupin #5
Shin Iagaki, Futoshi Higashide, Hideyuki Motohahi, Fumiaki Hikarida

Tadashi Hiramatsu will join next week.

>>917
*Fumiaki Kouta

Shin Iagaki Lupin was great. awesome Kanadaish action, great facial expressions sometimes even reminiscent of 70s TV Lupin, generally a really fun episode (beyond the animation too). really hope there will be more dynamic adventurey episodes like this in the future.

Eureka Seven AO Episode 4
http://www244.jumbofiles.com:443/d/2rsu7oukcr4eam62fp6qi6lqvnlasctaodstunlhg5gzn7wbabdqa/_5Bgg_5D%20EUREKA%20SEVEN%20AO%20-%2004%20_5BXviD%20AnimeSenshi_5D.avi