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.

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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