Vinto de Pint hints
1. Theme is Friendship
2. It features a 14-years old female protagonist
3. The director is also the character-designer
4. It's a bishoujo sci-fi action show
5. There are 5 main heroines
6. MC has a sister and a grandfather, total of 3 members in the family.
7. Main heroine was born in a poor family
8. Director is doing series compositon along with the main writer
>>7
Like its nice you keep posting it, but until something is announced this isn't all that relevant. I honestly don't care for yet another kawaii uguu lesbian show.
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Anonymous2012-05-11 13:22
kawaii uguu lesbian show it may end up being, but sci-fi action is good enough for me
New KyoAni's directing staff in Hyouka
- (Su)Nao Naito (Assistant AD ep1)
- Taichi Ogawa (Assistant Episode Director ep 3)
- Rika Ota (Episode Director ep 11.5)
Is that supposed to be 11,5 (episode 11 and 5) or are we getting a special/recap after 11?
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Anonymous2012-05-11 14:04
Nishigori just love moe girls
no good for the action genre
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Anonymous2012-05-11 14:05
>>16
It's a special episode(probably a fan-service episode) that will be streamed on USTREAM, and the disc will be bundled with the novel.
It takes place between episode 11 and 12.
Nishigori could do good stuff in an action show but it doesn't really matter, at this point it's almost certain that this is Umetsu. The fact that Umetsu talked about being hard at work on a bishoujo show in his blog a while ago is pretty telling.
>>29
It's hard to say, animators use references for alot of things all the time. Top tier animators from Ghibli or Madhouse will go out and record footage of actions to use as reference. Like for Spirited Away, when Chihiro feeds the dragon some medicine, they visited a vet and saw something similar done with animals and they used that for reference.
Or for a movie I can't recall now, but there was a woman running along the road, they had a girl dress up in a coat and run behind a camera mounted on a truck and used that as reference. So yeah, there are a lot of movements which I'm sure animators are not aware of personally but I think it's fine they use them for video reference.
>>34 >>36
it's a whole different issue. Video reference is still animating, but roto is for sure just cheating.
On video reference, the animator is combining his artistic sense with the footage just like a realism painter combines his knowledge with that of a photo reference.
It still needs lots of skills.
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Anonymous2012-05-13 11:10
I don't think they rotoscope the drumming in Apollon. The piano is most probably rotoscope'd, though.
>>The piano is most probably rotoscope'd, though.
The piano playing is very clearly CG.
I don't know what the practicality of rotoscoping CG over live action footage would be, especially with something like hands playing piano, since they'd mainly be shot side on. Misjudging depth is a problem in a situation like that. I've thought about it a lot since the show began and I can't figure out any kind of short cut. No matter how you approach it, it would be difficult.
I suppose being CG, they could rotoscope it from multiple angles? Have two or three cameras set up around a keyboard, definitely one from above, and then have that video be played out on flat planes in the CG for the animator to work with. Still sounds like a painful amount of work though. However, they could also have the added bonus of the keyboard's MIDI output actually animating the piano keys in CG.
I don't think they would do this, but it makes me wonder whether you could do precise enough motion capture to record the movements of individual fingers while playing. And then just lower the framerate.
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Anonymous2012-05-13 13:46
>>54
Yeah but it's Chief Director. not series director
>working on a new direction work now. also working on character designs for this.
>It will be a unique and cute designs. (lol)
Umetsu confirmed.
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Anonymous2012-05-13 16:25
the latest One Piece 547 was nice. especially the B part.
Naohiro Shintani i think. His style is similar to Tate.
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Anonymous2012-05-13 16:56
>>45
It's two months old, everybody's already long over it...
>>59
Too bad, seeing that it was Aniplex and all I was sure that it'll be another A-1 show with Nishigori at helm. Idolm@ster was surprisingly fun and well made, wouldn't mind a show of similar quality again regardless of cute girls and all.
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Anonymous2012-05-13 17:44
>Too bad
wait what? An Umetsu anime would be fucking amazing right now
Nishigori is good, but considering Idolm@ster's success as far as sales are concerned he is getting a new show with or without Aniplex's help. Umetsu, on the other hand, probably had a harder time getting the funding. I would have liked either, but I'm glad for Umetsu.
>>62
You remember the last show(s) he directed? I do. Can't say I'm happy with him reusing the same ideas for op/ed animations for the past few years either.
>>64
That's a damn sweet transformation sequence. Did they finally bring the big guns to the show? Been somewhat disappointed with the general AD and some other things for the first couple of episodes. (And Smile Precure was tumbling over the place with few hand-to-hand fighting either.)
Either way, the best thing about the show, visually, is the effects. They actually draw some pretty damn good wind/water/fire. Smile also has some pretty good effects, now that I think about it.
I feel bad for the people working on that movie; the movie itself looks badass as hell, but the association with the mediocre TV show is killing all of its chances at success.
AGE #31 Kim Se-Jun ep was great.
I think he did a lot of mecha scenes and very well, indeed.
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Anonymous2012-05-15 16:48
AGE as a whole has a lot of really good mecha animation. Better than 00, IMO. The character stuff tends to look quite bad, though.
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Anonymous2012-05-15 18:51
>>86 http://youtu.be/DeaN47U3UbQ?t=1m21s
There were a lot of parts that had that Kim Se Jun style, especially a lot of the effects, but this scene in particular was very cool looking.
It's a kid's show, no doubt about it, but it in other ways I feel it's surprisingly mature. Killer soundtrack from the 2nd gen onwards. The Fardain arc is a bit of a dud, but overall I've found it quite enjoyable.
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Anonymous2012-05-15 22:37
>>90
Generally its more miss than a hit, there are good parts to it but the first couple of episodes are kinda rough to get through. If you've seen several Gundam shows then you can probably smell half the plot points a mile away. Animation wise, it's not always stellar, but the Mecha is always the strong point of it. Though there have been some episodes where the mecha scenes have been low tier.
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Anonymous2012-05-15 22:53
Gundam AGE Sakuga eps
EP 14, 29 KenOh ep
EP 20 Tanaka's first TV gundam
EP 2, 10, 11, 18, 24, 31 Kim as the Mecha AD
Jormungand 6#
Hiroshi Tomioka
a practice match Jonahs and Valmet or the fanservice killing scene.
I like this show.
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Anonymous2012-05-16 14:10
Bahi is like my dreamgirl she has a （＾ 0＾）face I love that
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Anonymous2012-05-16 14:13
How many many here will drop Hyouka after Kigami-Horiguchi's episode?
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Anonymous2012-05-16 14:19
>>101
I survived Munto, so I will definitively finish this show.
The visual is entertaining enough for me.
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Anonymous2012-05-16 15:14
>>101
I won't be dropping Hyouka for the foreseeable future, plot's decent enough for me, though bits of episode 4 were a tad boring. Also, animation and art is likely to be solid throughout the show.
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Anonymous2012-05-16 15:41
>>101
I'm loving Hyouka to bits so far, so I'm definitely not going to be dropping it any time soon.
from left to right:
Shingo Yamashita ,don't know, don't know, probably Rapparu holding an iPad.
I've seen Rapparu once on NHK, I'm sure that's him with the iPad.
lol since Bahi is in Austria, he is in the one in the iPad skyping around with everyone.
ok enough stalking
Hiroyuki Okiura has been rumored to be involved in Eva 3.0.
>>128
Looks very follower of Yoshinari style.
haha, I'm looking forward to his debut, really.
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Anonymous2012-05-20 23:29
How was the Nijiiro Hotaru I wonder
I heard that Ohira did THE OHIRA as usual.
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Anonymous2012-05-21 0:25
Njiiro Hotaru KA list from Liborek's twitter:
Katsuzou Nishida, Ryou Onishi, Kouichi Arai, Naoki Tate, Takashi Mukouda, Shinya Ohira, Hiromi Ishigami, Yoshiyuki Ito, Hakuto Sakiyama, Ikuo Kuwana, Shinji Hashimoto, Hirofumi Matsuda, Kenichi Konishi, Hisashi Mori and some other names that I can't read, lol.
He was character designer and sakuga kantoku on Tatami Galaxy and Kaiba and basically one of Yuasa's favourites.
And he was responsible for the crazy whale espace scene in Mind Game.
Except much better looking and without the shitty CG effects. KyoAni has come a long way from their bland Haruhi days. Lucky Star and onwards is pure gold.
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Anonymous2012-05-21 17:54
Gundam Unicorn #5 was great as usual. Great seeing Sunrise putting all their effort into a Gundam OVA title once again.
Yeah. These kind of animators should leave KyoAni. Their talents are just getting wasted over genres KyoAni picks.
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Anonymous2012-05-22 5:48
>>157
But wouldn't their talents in doing low-key, subtle, detailed acting animation be also wasted if they left KyoAni?
KyoAni is probably the only studio that's doing these kind of animation for TV anime.
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Anonymous2012-05-22 8:07
>>151
Both Mecha and Chara designer? Er.. there are not many of those about.
Who did mecha designs on Gurren Lagann? Was it Nishigori or Imaishi? >>154
Koyama is a good candidate, he did both chara and mecha on Heroman. Plus if it was Nishigori on the new project, Koyama would make sense as he's close to those former Gainax guys.
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Anonymous2012-05-22 8:08
>>155
I'm quite interested in the "Effect AD" guy called SNIPES. Seems they had one guy devoted to just the effects which were really good. The beams and explosions were quite nice during the episode.
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Anonymous2012-05-22 11:43
>>159
Yoh Yoshinarai did the mecha design on TTGL.
I appreciate that but they haven't done any variety of genres in the past few years. Nichijou was the one of the best thing they made. Even though it bombed.
Hyouka even though with their top notch quality, seems to be having an uninteresting storyboarding in most times.
>>164
>they haven't done any variety of genres in the past few years.
That's really not true though. Hyouka, Nichijou and K-On! (their three most recent shows) aren't all that much alike beyond the general setting. Hyouka's a mystery/drama, K-On!'s a sitcom with 'healing' elements and Nichijou is an over-the-top gag absurd comedy. Their similarities are all very superficial.
Anyway, this isn't really an on-topic subject, so I'm not going to say anything more about it.
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Anonymous2012-05-23 6:48
>Hyouka
>uninteresting storyboarding
what? Its low-key but the storyboarding and general composition work is fantastic. Just watch the beginning of episode 3. All that succinct and precise editing between the shots are great. Many of the shots feature some very good perception of depth
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Anonymous2012-05-23 8:08
>>164
>they haven't done any variety of genres in the past few years
By that, did you mean they haven't done anything you want them to?
Vinto de Pint hints
1. Theme is Friendship.
2. It features a 14-years old female protagonist.
3. The director is also the character-designer.
4. It's a bishoujo sci-fi action show.
5. There are 5 main heroines.
6. MC has a sister and a grandfather, total of 3 members in the family.
7. Main heroine was born in a poor family.
8. Director is doing series compositon along with the main writer.
9. There is a mecha designer among the main staff.
10. A peaceful world where science can solve all problems.
11. The show is set on an island filled with natural beauty, and an artificial island populated by science and technology.
12. Drawn Hardworking girls cutely?
13. The mecha designer has previously worked on original character designs for other shows.
14. Main Writer and Mech designer did done an anime project together before.
15. The main writer also creates own Manga etc.
Soon guys...
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Anonymous2012-05-25 12:35
AS speculated :
Tow Ubukata
Range Murata
Tsutomu Nihei < WTF
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Anonymous2012-05-25 13:14
>>198
Tow Ubukata is working in K and Fafner Exodus now.
Maybe.
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Anonymous2012-05-25 16:33
some text with the right information about Bahi JD's Apollon work.
Apparently, this text was confirmed by Bahi.
Ah, so it's like drawing out the storyboard in full detail, but not animating it.
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Anonymous2012-05-26 12:53
Fate/Zero #21 was pretty good. Ei Aoki storyboards were very nice. First episode that really stood out among this season's F/Z episodes
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Anonymous2012-05-26 13:00
Somoene should should ask Bahji how he feels about the fact that "moeshit" by KyoAni is in every single possible way styling and running circles all around his "mature anime for mature people such as myself" jazz show.
>>205
You see him rollin' you hatin' *obvious troll.
First of all, his same is "Bahi" JD. second, he doesn't "hate" moe.
He worked on "Nihonbashi Koukashita R Keikaku" which was cute and lovely.
That's exactly what I like about Bahi JD, he is comfortable with any style & genre.
He doesn't stick on one thing, he is not limited, he can jump from his crazy Shithead Action madness into a cute vocaloid music video and then jump into a josei anime about jazz.
Bahi is one of those animators that can animate any kind of scene and he is just 21, he is still developing and progressing.
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Anonymous2012-05-26 18:01
>>208
>He worked on "Nihonbashi Koukashita R Keikaku" which was cute and lovely.
>>210
haha he animated the famous "fantasy hamaguri" shot!
I read a lot about it on 2ch and some russian blogs.
The director said that Bahi had never seen or eaten Hamaguri or anything similiar before (because seafood isn't common in austria) and the whole animation came from his own mind.
That's why they call it "fantasy hamaguri"
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Anonymous2012-05-27 11:21
>>211 *similar
sorry my english sucks, I'm from russia.
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Anonymous2012-05-27 11:45
Vinto de Pint the last hint.
The director have a nickname that fans gave him.
>>214
He's clearly given his own sense of timing to it.
>>222
Tumblr votes don't really mean anything - it's tumblr. Just think about the kind of shit that gets posted and discussed there. I'd pay more attention to Anipages best animators poll, there Iso, Yutapon and Kanada are top 3.
>>223
I've never seen it but the production and test footage of it looks great. They are really animating more traditionally than relying on 2D flash tweening and the like. Some have said they are also inspired by anime like FLCL.
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Anonymous2012-05-28 6:39
>>224 I wouldn't say that "they don't mean ANYTHING".
That's what the audience on tumblr enjoys currently.
The problem with this ranking is the title "Best Animator", totally misleading.
It should have been called "most popular animations" or something, then I would be happy.
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Anonymous2012-05-28 7:21
Vivid Red Operation
Director: Kazuhiro Takamura
Character Design: Kazuhiro Takamura
Series Composition: Hiroyuki Yoshino, Kazuhiro Takamura
Studio: A-1 Pictures
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Anonymous2012-05-28 8:03
>It should have been called "most popular animations" or something, then I would be happy.
That I can live with - with the way the tumblr system works, liking or relogging something just means a person likes it, and liking something doesn't necessarily mean it's the best.
Kazuhiro Takamura is from the Anno/Eva era from Gainax, though he was still an inbetweener around that time. Still, he formed many friendships there with the likes of Anno, Imaishi, Sadamoto, Tsurumaki, Mizushima Seiji. He got these guys to watch Strike Witches and all of them gave seemingly favourable responses.
Yeah... Anno liked Strike Witches.
It's said Hideki Tamura as an Animation Director.
The famous Kanada animator is back.
And also Masahito Yamashita and Hirotoshi Sano as a KA, but I'm not sure.
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Anonymous2012-05-31 10:33
>>242 so sad that they waste animation talents on pachinko machines
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Anonymous2012-05-31 11:48
>>242
Dat 80s Kanada action looks pretty cool.
and circus too.
Tatsuro Kawano debut as a key animator on Medaka Box Episode 9.
He is the prize winner of NPO's newcomer animators award this year. http://animator.main.jp/prize.html
>>255 >>254
I second this notion, the folks at Anipages should be able to help you out. Just explain what you are doing thoroughly, what your skills are, what your aim is etc..
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Anonymous2012-06-01 23:03
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll be doing this then.
>>247
I'm not sure how many times it was explained, but
many of the instrument scenes were not completely rotoscoped, and some of them are total animation.
It was mainly a mix of both animation and rotoscope and sometimes (depends on the skills of the animator) they just used the live-action footage only as reference.
Nobutaka Ito's animation in episode 7 as example was animated.
(the footage was probably used as reference)
He was responsible for Sentaro's animation in this scene http://youtu.be/jRHJntLYMh0?t=57s
He tweeted it when duckroll asked, but then he deleted his tweets. Maybe he didn't want the "lazy animators" to look back next to Nobutake Ito and whoever else didn't rotoscope?
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Anonymous2012-06-04 3:52
I have yet to watch the Berserk movie, but was there anything interesting with regards to the animation? How was the CG?
He recently tweeted that Dogakobo asked him to work on YuruYuri, he was glad about it but he kindly rejected because the show is not his cup of tea.
Later on, he removed the tweet.
But he is not the only one, Yama and Yutapon do that way more often than he does. I will remember to screenshot some of these events, you never know, because "pics or it didn't happen"
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Anonymous2012-06-04 10:10
>>272
More than that, I want to know how was the Blood-C movie.
the shot composition and flow was good across the board but there's only so much you can achieve with stiff CGI animation. The 2D animation was good but there wasn't enough of it
I can only hope that they use less and less CGI as the movies go on
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Anonymous2012-06-04 11:00
>>276 why is the opening so obviously copied from the first original anime movie?
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Anonymous2012-06-04 11:02
>>276 seriously is that all they could come up with after all these years?? Just putting the same opening into the new movies, only with the difference that now, people have smartphones and twitter?!
But whatever, it had good sakuga, I think Tetuya Takeuchi did those.
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Anonymous2012-06-04 11:13
>>276
Wow, Production I.G.'s CG work is just superb here. They're really one of the most experienced anime studios when it comes to CG.
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Anonymous2012-06-04 11:45
I'm waiting for the may sakuga mad videos.
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Anonymous2012-06-04 12:02
>>278 >>279
1. It's called a reference and 2. It's not even an identical scene. Quit overreacting.
>is that all they could come up with after all these years??
You say that like they've been working on this movie since the original came out.
Sorry for my poor english but: Why all the people thinks that do a series in another studio inmediatelly means that she has leave madhouse?.
It can,t be that she isn,t going to work in the next madhouse series and for that she had permission to work in another studio between they started to work in another series with her?;
for the next year i only heared about a new ninja scrolland btooomt, who are both action series,so it,s very unprobable that she were in the staff who is working on that. if they,re going to do a third series,she could work in it, but this could be when? in the next spring? her series start in autum, so she had time to do it.
>>332
Either Studio D or Studio B. If the staff list is true then my guess is likely to be B as Ando and Saito have both worked at StB quite often.
StC is most likely busy with the Star Driver movie, I'm unsure what else BONES have planned for the rest of the year though.
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Anonymous2012-06-09 14:33
>>335
Ando's latest works at BONES are storyboards on Heroman (A) and FMA:B (D). Oshiro and Kanno both worked at StD as of lately, seems like obvious studio D work.
Looks like Bahi was not the only one in charge for those scenes but also Nobutake Ito.
In my opinion, great animator combination and probably the most memorable scene in the whole series.
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Anonymous2012-06-13 11:40
I suppose it had to be kept secret since he (bahi) deleted his tweet about it... Nobutake Ito animated Sen drumming. So i'm really curious on who might have animated Kaoru on the piano.
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Anonymous2012-06-13 18:24
>>354
Only Bahi's and Ito's cuts were animated, Kaoru on the piano was half rotoscope, half animation. But the source of all this information is lost.
I don't understand why generally the film industry keeps all this kind of information secret.
Also, Bahi wrote on Anipages Forum that he will be interviewd by Ben soon, but he has to get permission for that too.
I guess that's business.
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Anonymous2012-06-14 11:32
Smile Precure ep 19 Yayoi-chan so adorable...
The fight scene was pretty good especially some water effects.
AD: Ken Ueno, KA: Paul and Francis.
Munehisa Sakai's direction and storyboarding were also interesting.
He doesn't work for One Piece anymore?
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Anonymous2012-06-14 11:52
Nah, he has been working for Precure since Heartcatch. In fact, he was series director of Suite.
If you liked his work, I recommend episode 9 of HC.
Does anyone know who worked on Fate/Zero episode 23?
The animation seemed better than Ufotable's usual approach of: "let's put filters on everything to hide the bad animation"
The scene where Waver is lifted by Rider onto the horse seemed kinda nice. I looked into the credits, but couldn't spot anything other than a former KyoAni animator working on the episode.
>>359
Souichiro Matsuda and many Ufotable talents, as usual.
Masayuki Kunihiro did the Saber vs Berserker fight I think.
He worked on Berserker fight for episode 5.
He's one of the most talented young animator in Ufotable.
I thought that was the only good part in this ep.
Shit storyboarding, shit cameraworks. these killed the good sakuga.
>>370 >>371
Some of their earlier works were touch and go in terms of quality. I'd say it'd be around 2006 with FMP The Second Raid, since then their quality has been much better.
But they cancelled the project. That's the tough side of anime business.
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Anonymous2012-06-16 13:44
well F/Z #24 was alright. Not greaaaaaaaaat, but it had some satisfying storyboard/layout work. The fights could have been longer and more polished, there was nothing really MINDBLOWING in there. Favorite cut was probably the rotating camera one denoting Kiritsugu and Kotomine's fight to the inside of the grail. It was a little reminiscent of KnK5 lol
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Anonymous2012-06-16 13:50
>>377
Berserker vs Saber was obviously cut due to time constraints. Like you said, Kirei vs Kerry was kinda neat. Was that by Ikariya?
AIR was pretty consistent though there'd be a couple of off model problems in some episodes. Haruhi had of lot of that problems. Still, the over all animation stuck up to the standards which was above average to begin with. It's not that of a big problem for me if the character's movement is depicted with subtle liveliness.
If I were to choose and say where KyoAni's improvement really shows, it's Lucky Star.
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Anonymous2012-06-16 23:15
Is it me, or quite a handful of talented key animators seem to be freelancers rather than being attached to a studio? Wouldn't it be better for job security if they were to work for a studio?
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Anonymous2012-06-17 0:00
Kazuto Nakazawa as a main animator on Kuroko's Basket ep 11.
The basketball scenes were very KAZUTO.
First 8-mins of the Blood-C movie. I found the 3D pans a little awkward, but it looks well directed and satisfyingly polished overall. Looking forward to it.
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Anonymous2012-06-17 7:54
>>361
Seems Kaichiro Terada did some nice effects.
Ishihara didn't work on the first 11 episode of Hyouka.
Ikeda also said that she's just back to work on the key animation of Hyouka recently (still hasn't been credit in the first 9 episode)
>>400
Yuasa and Imaishi? Oh boy I want to watch it so badly.
But where is Koike?
>Perhaps this show still has hope.
Maybe koike solo for the last episode?
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Anonymous2012-06-20 21:52
How was the Nishigori m@ster ep26?
No subs yet?
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Anonymous2012-06-20 21:58
im@s 26 was fun. Lot's of nice animation in the form of gag movie trailers. Apparently the mobster one was a Megumi Kouno solo? Or at least that's what I saw off twitter. I really liked the Azusa movie gag one. The character animation there was excellent, especially the blotchy motion blur. Looked really nice
Kinema Citrus is an interesting up and coming studio. All of their shorts or OVAs have some form of interesting animation/direction going for them. They seem to be an affiliate of Bones given the projects they've shared with the latter. I don't really know much about them though
>>404
Speaking of KINEMA CITRUS. Just seen it, Marimo no Hana was pretty cool. Tanaka Hironori, Hisashi Mori and Itou Nobutake on it.
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Anonymous2012-06-21 5:50
I thought Yuasa bit was at the end. The part where Fujiko is wrestling with her clone and Zenigata pulls her of and struggles with her after that. Looked like typical Yuasa to me.
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Anonymous2012-06-21 6:50
Kinema Citrus is consisted of ex-Bones members, isn't it?
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Anonymous2012-06-21 7:02
Toei is animating a French magical girl anime named Ladybug.
I've always wondered how such a niche game (not unpopular but definitely not as popular as Persona 3/4) gets such good animation for its OPs.
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Anonymous2012-06-21 15:09
>>410
It's sort of a spin off. One of the BONES producers left and joined up with some guys from Production IG and BeeTrain(?). Their initial first projects were joint works with BONES. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 which was really enjoyable, but the Eureka 7 movie was not that good.
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Anonymous2012-06-21 17:27
Kazuto Nakazawa on Apollon episode 11. I wonder if he can top Bahi JD and Nobutaka Ito's performance on episode 7.
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Anonymous2012-06-21 21:30
>>417
C'mon.
Bahi's works are not that good.
They look out of place as hell.
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Anonymous2012-06-22 3:40
Yoshihara's SKET Dance 63, That was funny.
And now looking forward to Arve Rezzle.
>>417 >>418
Somewhat agree, Bahi is cool but this is Kazuto Nakazawa man.
Young animator in training vs top tier established animator.
There's no question here.
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Anonymous2012-06-22 21:50
>>406
Imaishi Lupin so cool.
And some Zetman staff helped in this episode.
Hang in there Koike, there's one more episode left!
I thought how many super animators worked for TMS in this season.
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Anonymous2012-06-22 22:30
has Koike even been involved in Lupin asides from the character designs?
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Anonymous2012-06-22 23:51
>>423
Didn't he direct the animation in episode 1?
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Anonymous2012-06-23 0:04
>>423
He is the chief animation director for all episodes.
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Anonymous2012-06-23 0:53
Tanaka on Tsuritama #11
and also there's 13 animation directors...
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Anonymous2012-06-23 3:54
>>423
He was sakkan for the first episode and hopefully will be doing the same for the finale.
>>425
That's what he's been credited as, but considering how the show's looked so far, I doubt he's had all that much involvement.
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Anonymous2012-06-23 12:09
latest Accel World 11 the best sakuga episode so far.
Dat fucking Nozomu Abe.
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Anonymous2012-06-23 22:41
>>428
Nozomu Abe was amazing in #11, he did really nice key animation but it was short scene
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Anonymous2012-06-23 23:46
I honestly couldn't tell what the fuck was happening in Abe's cut, damn show has annoying ghosting effects between frames
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Anonymous2012-06-24 2:06
Shida on the latest One Piece 553 and Toriko 62.
A must watch.
>>434 he is doing an illustration for the magazine "TOUCH" were many animators have participated such as Kenichi Yoshida. http://www.shinyusha.co.jp/touch/
He wrote that he will work for a different studio next time.
And I remember that he also mentioned something about a new music video, let's just wait and see what happens.
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Anonymous2012-06-24 9:56
>>435 >>434
and he will do an interview on anipages soon
You think that Okiura is interested in making money on this show??? The director of the award winning Momo? Are you serious?
And you seriously think that they pay a high amount of money to the animators???
*facepalm >>455 >>457
true that it looks cheap but both of you get back to /a/
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Anonymous2012-06-26 6:29
I don't seriously care, Masashi Kishimoto is the guy who created Naruto, who is allowed to do any fuck he wants with it.
Hell yeah, he can even fuck everything up and fuck the fans, fuck al the fans, respect the fucking artist Kishimoto, he is is the fucking kig who invented this fuck shit you fucks.
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Anonymous2012-06-26 6:31
FUCK YEAH MASASHI KISHIMOTO WILL FUCK YOU ALL UP NARUTOFAGS!
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Anonymous2012-06-26 6:32
FUCK THIS PLACE, FUCK THE WORLD, FUCK NARUTO, BECAUSE MASASHI KISHIMOTO FOR PRESIDENT, FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS PLACE SAKUGAFAGS! FUCK ANIMATION!!!!
rofl, thanks for the fun time dude. now get back to /a/ it's dinner time.
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Anonymous2012-06-26 6:34
>>462
FUCK YOU, YOU GET BACK TO YOUR ANIMATION BASEMENT AND TALK ALL ABOUT ANIMATION AND SHIT!!!! YOUR FUCK SHIT ANIMATION QUALITY SUCKS BITCH ASS OENGUINS YOU SHIT
Kouno is pretty close with A1; she animated the fake movie trailer in IM@S 26 and the Tales of Dice PV.
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Anonymous2012-06-26 11:18
>>467
She's probably doing the Takamura's Vivid Red Operation now.
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Anonymous2012-06-26 12:34
Kouno didn't come to Medaka Box after all...
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Anonymous2012-06-26 16:54
Does anyone know which scenes of "From Up On Poppy Hill" were animated by Hideki Hamasu, Honda, Shinji Otsuka and Ei Inoue? It was the first time I couldn't recognized the animator's work on a Ghibli film, they polished their work too much
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Anonymous2012-06-26 16:55
>> 470
I'm sure Hideki Hamasu animated one of the scenes were laughing was involved.
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Anonymous2012-06-26 18:05
>>470
Shinji Otsuka was the scenes of the student debate in Quartier Latin.
Why does bahiJD not like posting anything critical on Twitter?
Any time he says he does not like something or criticises something he deletes it.
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Anonymous2012-06-26 19:35
＞＞474
Perhaps the comment "4chan goes crazy everytime I tweet something of the Industry, 2ch is calmer.." or something along those lines have something to do with it.
>>488 He didn't, Koike's lupin cut was the best in the whole show
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Anonymous2012-06-28 7:54
that Bahi JD gif look like shaft style work
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Anonymous2012-06-28 7:55
ddd
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Anonymous2012-06-28 11:14
Bahi's work is really impressive for his age.
But beside of that, his animation feels so alive, love the hair animation.
I would like to know what the senior animators think about his work.
I guess I'll be watching Matsuo Kou's anime and SAO for sure. Uhh Campione and Boku wa H looked nicely animated and directed based off of their previews so I'll give those a shot. I had initially liked JinTai's look but Keiji Seishi as the director makes me more apprehensive about it. Joshiraku might be okay, I like Mizushima but I dunno about JC Staff. His Azazel OVAs are great so I'll keep my fingers crossed.
and everything else doesn't look interesting staff wise. I don't have much hope for Tari Tari or Muvluv
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Anonymous2012-06-28 15:28
>>505
Shikama Adachi Oneline.
Telecom's Hisao Yokobori for Moyashimon.
Kamimoto wa H Ga dekinai.
Kou Yoshinari will try the concert cuts for Dog Days again.
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Anonymous2012-06-28 15:29
Online*
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Anonymous2012-06-28 15:32
Speaking of Princess Lover, that Niho's episode 9.
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Anonymous2012-06-28 15:45
wouldn't Kou Yoshinari appear on Campione because that's where Dog Days' original staff ended up?
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Anonymous2012-06-28 15:47
>>494
I doubt that Bahi JD knows about this
thread but it's funny
how the trolls are starting to imitate him.
YOYOYO! rofl
actually, someone should send him the link, I would like to ask some questions.
I mean it would be a great oppurtunity for us, he is the only animator in the industry that has a connection to the english sakuga community
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Anonymous2012-06-28 16:03
What's up with Mari Okada?
Is this just another troll situation or is it serious?
>>510
don't worry this is actually quite common.
There was a similar issue on 2ch were someone was pretending to be Kenichi Kutsuna, obviously it was just a fan.
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Anonymous2012-06-28 16:31
>>509
They(st Silver) are involved with Seven Arcs.
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Anonymous2012-06-28 16:48
Sakamichi no Apollon #Final
Nobuteru Yuki as an Animation Director.
Shin Itagaki, Atsuko Nozaki, Kiyoshi Tateishi, Yutaka Minowa, Masahiko Kubo, Akemi Hayashi, Kazuto Nakazawa and Yuki Kodama (The author)
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Anonymous2012-06-28 16:57
SAO, Campione and Kamimotos H Ga dekinai sounds like your usual generic light novel adaption. Only looking forward to Kou Matsuo's Rendevous and Moyashimon.
I'm keeping an eye out for OP of Hakuōki Reimeiroku, so far Obari has directed all the OPs for the past 3 shows (S1, S2 and OVAs), I wonder if he will direct it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brkbyYPd_RE
Muraki - Tensai - Honda - Iso - Ogura - Kamogawa - Yoshinari - Ando
Can the Q really be more awesome than this amazing relay?
>>547
He did the Phantom Blood movie, that turned out shit.
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Anonymous2012-07-05 15:39
This week's Omega was pretty decent. The show overall looks consistent for a Toei production, but the action isn't particularly exciting since it tries too hard to look on-model. This week had some actual martial arts stuff in it, though. And some cool special effects stuff. No episode 10 level but decent. Baba, Nishii, Morita Takashi and Morimune were involved. I'm guessing Morimune animated the stand-out, the 4-character fighting scene near the ending.
first episode of Binbougami looked....great actually. I was surprised, there was loads of interesting FX animation flying around.
Natsuyuki Rendezvous #1 was okay, the only real stand out scene to me was when the love interest started crying while eating ramen. I was expecting a bit more from Kou Matsuo, even Ryo-timo's OP is just alright
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Anonymous2012-07-06 0:43
Joshiraku have a really good animation piece like 1 minute after the OP.
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Anonymous2012-07-06 0:44
>555
And it relevant for the joke too. Great job JC Staff.
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Anonymous2012-07-06 7:36
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai
TV Series
Director, Ishihara
Script, Hanada
Character design and chief animation director, Kazumi Ikeda.
The animation in Hyouka 11.5 (ustream episode) is really good.
Horiguchi is the animation director.
Chise Kamoi and Kigami did the key animation.
Other 4 key animators that worked on this episode are new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tari_Tari
What do you guys think about Tari tari? I just finished episode 1 and in the part when Konatsu sang on the park, I actually loved her singing voice.
Little by little, Disappearance is really getting dwarfed in terms of overall visuals. When I rewatched Disappearance then watched Hyouka, Disappearance seemed outdated.
Is Hyouka even worth it for the presentation alone ? I dropped it by ep. 4 and the content to this point was less or more non-existent [And that is coming from a person who liked K-on].
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Anonymous2012-07-17 7:48
Is Hyouka even worth it for the presentation alone ? I droped it by ep. 4 and the content to this point was more or less non-existent [And that's coming from a person who liked K-On!!].
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Anonymous2012-07-17 8:39
>>660
It's more of the same, so if you didn't like it then, you won't like it now.
If you only want the presentation though, I recommend episode 5, 11, and 12. Maybe 7 too.
Yoshiji Kigami used his real name instead of Fumio Tada in K-ON! movie
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Anonymous2012-07-18 11:24
K-On movie is officialy out on DVD and BD. Have you watched it? What are your thoughts about its animation?
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Anonymous2012-07-18 11:54
>>668
It's KyoAni being KyoAni.
I like the animation in K-on movie more than Haruhi movie.
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Anonymous2012-07-18 12:37
>>658
I can imagine for a short project that runs for 30 seconds they can afford to really splash out on the details in the drawings, but would they still be able to keep up the same level on a long running TV show or a movie?
2006 Sakuga Animation Award Winners
#Individual Award = Hashimoto Takashi
#Rookie of the Year Award = Tatsuzou Nishida
#Special Toshiyuki Inoue Award(?) = Noein
#Movie Award = Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006
#TV Show Award = Gaiking
#Enshutsu Award = Ouran HS Host Club
#OP Award = Gaiking 2nd OP (Masami Oobari)
#ED Award = Chocotto Sisters (Norimitsu Suzuki)
>>696 >>695 >>691
I see, it just find it interesting that someone in the industry actually complains about moe. I was under the impression that only foreign anime fans do that. Also, she has a surprisingly good grasp of the English language.
>>699
Approxiamately 100% of statistics are completely made-up.
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Anonymous2012-07-22 13:34
>>697
From what I've read of many anime directors and creators, many are unhappy with the moe boom, but much of it is out of their hands. That is why many animators, the top level ones, only ever work on all those various original movies - or TV shows that they know are backed by one of their close pals, like on Dennou Coil.
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Anonymous2012-07-22 13:44
Shoko Ikeda is back!
She did the key animation on Hyouka #14 (which is done 2 months ago)
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Anonymous2012-07-22 15:28
Bahi JD バヒ・JD ?@bahijd
Toshiyuki Inoue 井上俊之さん saw my animations and he liked it ( ﾟ▽ﾟ) but I should not get big headed, I need to move forward and progress more!
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Anonymous2012-07-22 21:35
>>703
How do you know that the episode was done 2 months in advance?
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Anonymous2012-07-22 21:41
>>705
She posted on the staff blog to almost 2 months ago.
And by 'done' I mean her animation, not the whole episode.
I tried google Inoue and Eva in moon but found nothing. Source please.
What did you guys like most in the K-on movie? I liked the beginning which had the girls doing lots fun facial expressions and plenty of potato faced Yui.
Oda Nobuna #4
Keisuke Kojima debut as the animation director.
aka Desuran. ex-tripfag of 2ch's sakuga thread.
21 year old.
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Anonymous2012-07-29 19:41
@747, I know and it's the movie Kishi was personally involved with. The trailer wasn't impressive to say the least.
@749, Too bad Kazuto only had 1 scene. Was hoping he'd be main animator on ep17.
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Anonymous2012-07-29 22:51
Who's behind this ep of Hyouka? The animation is more livelier than usual.
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Anonymous2012-07-29 23:17
>>751
I was asking myself the same question too. The parts where Saoshi's friend was talking outside the magic club and when the wall newspaper club were shown working looked pretty interesting. I guess we'll have to wait for ANN to update their encyclopedia to find out.
>>767
Nagi's head looks fucking HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE
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Anonymous2012-08-02 3:30
prism-nana.com
What we've got so far :
- They use (elemental) coins as in "betting" them into their weapons (at least blue and red does, can't find the medal slot on green's bow and arrows)
- Red got four different transformed clothing, blue got two (power up variations ala rider?)
- City is located near shore (there will be beach episode?)
- They have either two different schools or the anime will be long enough in-universe to justify winter and summer clothing
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Anonymous2012-08-02 4:27
>>770
Wasn't expecting Shaft to make another magical girl anime so soon.
I laughed pretty hard when someone said that Takemoto was trying to copy Shinbo
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Anonymous2012-08-02 16:55
>>776
I can imagine they had dancers play out the routine on camera and then use that as the basis. It's not pure rotoscope, but it's based off real life footage. (I'm guessing)
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Anonymous2012-08-02 16:56
>>772
Last seen working on the Kizumono trailer, I'm guessing he's got some kind of leading animator role on it.
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Anonymous2012-08-02 16:59
>>775
It always feels like I'm pushing my face into a bucket of piss when it comes to /a/ threads.
I know you guys normally don't discuss CGI here, but I thought this article here was a good read for understanding how Sanzigen does their CG for the upcoming 009 Cyborg movie. http://009.re-cyb.org/re-animation/
>>867
Thread turned to shit eventually. Wonderful.
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Anonymous2012-08-13 5:31
>>867
/a/ is still convinced that western animation is inherently better than any other kind of animation, can't be helped.
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Anonymous2012-08-13 6:18
>>869
I can't say that's the impression that I normally get from /a/.
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Anonymous2012-08-13 7:37
>>870
I should say in terms of animation quality, at the very least it comes up in animation threads. Always defensive and apologetic about "cheap" Japanese animation throwing out the canned responses of "American animation has bigger budgets" and typically thinking that framerate is the end all be all of animation, this is what I see in these threads anyway.
Shida Cure, Yoshinari Days, Shikama Art Online, Muraki Circus, Kazuto no Basket, Kim's AGE.
July was a wonderful month. I especially liked Precure with the Toei's full power.
Joshiraku in general has had some pretty cool animation across the board. It's not GREAAAT stuff but still its quite fun. Mizushima sure knows how to make use of a staff
I'm not sure if you are joking about that, but I think you have mentioned a different person.
We are talking here about the animator Nekomataya (ねこまたや, with the twitter account http://twitter.com/info_nekomataya), and you are referring to an artist that is more known by the name of Naomi Nekomata (ねこまたなおみ, with twitter account http://twitter.com/nekomata), even if the address of the website 'NekomataShop' (http://nekomataya.net/) and the circle name of Nekomata-ya confused people at first.
Sid vs. Gundam Legilis & Dark Hound and Sid vs. Gundam AGE-2 battles were pretty awesome this week, even though Sid is CG.
The final battle starts next week, so the remaining episodes should have some nice fight animation in them.
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Anonymous2012-08-26 17:22
>>959
That was Kim Se Jun I think, he tweeted something regarding that, will have to check when I get home.
Obari is speculated to take part in the finale, he was tweeting about working on an unknown work, doing genga and layouts, Otsuka Ken said thanks, so its a good chance he's there.
It is possible that he appears as TRIGGER Inc., staff in there probably in the same way he asked time ago for his profile to be put on GAINAX's own website as a staffer (and still figures as such, http://www.gainax.co.jp/gainax_staff/0013.html), while continuing to act as a freelance like always.
>>974
Wooaah, I do like some of the new cuts, though at the same time I prefer Matsumoto's version in places as some of the new cuts have really fast timing where the original didn't.
>>984
Woah what's this, are they remaking early One Piece episodes?
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Anonymous2012-08-29 14:54
That was a One Piece Special about Nami that aired last week.
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Anonymous2012-08-29 16:40
>>987
Any particular reason? Or just a one off.
Would be nice to see some others like for Sanji's intro arc or Skypeia.
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Anonymous2012-08-29 17:19
It took an entire summer, as well as $100 worth of Blockbuster-fees; but I did it… I searched through the lower rung of cheap horror movies at my local rental-store. 85% of the films lived up to their cheap cover-art, lackluster casts, and un-appealing synopses. They were dead-fish. Rotten movies that only inspired a sense of resentment for picking one box instead of the next. A few, however, stood out.
When you rent every horror film available: you sift through the shit and find those little diamonds that were almost thrown out. These are the diamonds you cannot throw out.
5. Blood Car
Set in the near future, this film has an odd approach to explaining our apocalyptic fate: gas prices! In fact, cars are obsolete in this story. Archie Andrews (played by Mike Brune) is a vegan who aspires to inventing an engine that runs on vegan smoothies. And it’s not working-out. The engine only roars to life after Archie accidentally cuts his hand and bleeds on it. Soon enough, the hippie naturalist who once hated the killing of any living being, is lured-in by the prospect of being the only one in town to have a running car. Now, anyone and anything filled with blood, becomes a possible fuel-source.
Listing this films nominations, wins, and nods would be impossible in this short article. The entire budget for the film was $125,000. And yes, it is evident in the fact that the film is grainy, the sound isn’t perfect and Anna Chlumsky (“My Girl”; “My Girl 2”) is the only actor you’ll recognize. Still, the story is wonderful enough to earn a spot on this list. By far, an underrated movie.
Based on a true story, ‘Black Cadillac’ tells the story of four teenage boys who go out to a bar in the country to drink while underage and score some lonely girls stuck in a small town. A fight in the bar forces them to head back home prematurely. A hundred mile drive back to the city doesn’t seem that bad at first, but they’re being followed by a mysterious black Cadillac. Whoever—or whatever—is driving the Cadillac seems hell-bent on terrorizing the already frightened boys. After hours of taunting by the unknown car, the boys face facts and admit that they might never make it back home.
Honestly? The synopsis didn’t intrigue me either. The only reason I agreed to rent it, was the fact that the movie’s logo was a great design: ‘Black Cadillac’ in broad letters, formed into the chrome logo that was on the classic Caddies. After watching the film once, I immediately went back and watched again. Then I watched it with the director’s commentary. Listening to the director re-live everything that happened on the night that inspired the story, added a new dimension to the film. The actors in the film were low-key as well—nobody too famous, but good actors. This helped develop the characters well—you have an instant relationship with every character introduced. Randy Quaid (‘Vacation;’ ‘Independence Day’) is, however, a recognizable face, and plays a character he was born to play: creepy local sheriff. Don’t go the rest of your life without seeing this movie… Like other films on this list, you can find it for a bargain-price.
A newlywed couple goes house-hunting with their trusty realtor, played by John Ritter (“Three’s Company”; “IT”). Problem? Every house shown by their nervous agent has a tawdry and murderous past, needing to be explained in-detail before the buyers can make their decision.
My girlfriend and I rented this movie for one reason only: John Ritter. He had just passed away, so seeing this movie on the shelf made us want to find out what the hell it was all about. Unknowingly, we stumbled onto one of the greatest horror-comedies ever made. It was the perfect balance of horror and comedy. Both mine and my girlfriend’s families were big in the real estate business at the time; so, of course, we loved the idea of a realtor that only had ‘haunted houses’ to show his clients.
When it comes to famous faces, this movie will take you by surprise… A low-budget, fun movie with appearances by actors and actresses that make you ask, “Hey, what other movies were they in?”A decade after first seeing it, I am still looking for any extra copies of the original release. Trust me… If you see it in your movies store, or in the bargain-bin—don’t pass it up.
Hippies Beware! It’s the biggest outdoor concert of the year—a festival of peace and love. What could go wrong? Well… A homicidal maniac who thinks he’s Ronald Reagan could show up, bent on slaughtering all those filthy hippies.
From writer/director/actor/famous family/husband of Courtney Cox (David Arquette), comes this gem. Starring David Arquette, Courtney Cox, Jason Mewes, Balthazar Getty, and more: this film was David Arquettes subtly-political commentary on the state of our country. Drugs, hippies, the government, concert-promoters, and animal-rights activists; all are fair-game in Arquette’s satirical story. And really? Why wouldn’t you want to watch a b-movie that has an axe-wielding Ronald Reagan as the villain?
Upon seeing the cover of this film, I was worried… “What is this? SyFy Channel’s version of 28 weeks later?” I commented to myself. Thankfully, this presumption didn’t deter me from renting this movie.
First lines of the movie were, again, overused and bland: rules for surviving the post-apocalyptic world where disease has devastated mankind, teenage survivors learning how to cope with the new world… Even the cast-members kept me uneasy: Chris Pine (Star Trek [2009]) in the lead? Either this guy agreed to make a terrible movie at the height of his success, or this movie will hit a note. Honestly? I think he made the perfect decision. Though the movies starts slow, the plot, climax and ending made the movie.
I still can’t tell if this is a true-horror film, or a drama with horror-overtones, but the bottom line is: I actually cried at the end of the film. As a writer, my job is to create characters and put them into horrible situations; hoping that readers will grow an emotional connection to those characters. Then, I am supposed to torment them. This movie sucked me in and enamored me—I felt the characters and felt their pain.
Though this movie is fairly-hard to find; it shouldn’t be in the bargain-bin… This is an artistic piece that should be remembered and enjoyed by everyone.
I sifted through all the marked-down movies, the throw-aways, the bombs, the rotten tomatoes… Of all the bad scripts, worse actors and lacking budgets, these are the best. Rent them, purchase them, over-borrow them from your roommate—I don’t care. But watch them.