looking for suggestions here. I am in mood for light hearted school comedies with little romance in them like School Rumble, Itazura na Kiss, Toradora etc. Any suggestions?
>>172
The cut had a Ishidate feeling, and he certainly loves dem FX. But he's not listed in the KA list, so I wouldn't know.
Anyway, Chuuni disappointed me in the animation department, I expected more than just that cut for the finale. Of course the photography and visual production were as gorgeous as ever, but too little dynamism. I hope these Depth of Field shorts feature more than just 3D mechs.
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Anonymous2012-12-19 18:12
Kanada style
Utsunomiya style
Realism style
Drug style
Takeuchi Style
Obari style
Tatsuzo style
Web style
>>176
Something many people don't take into account is that KyoAni animators are generally brought up in the same school and then work together without outsourcing their work to other studios. A certain degree of similarity can't be avoided. But yeah, the whole EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE KEION thing got out of hand and it's just silly.
>>178
So who besides him is a Horiguchi "clone" (for want of a better word) anyway? People seem to talk about this like there's many more, but he's the only one I can think of and the only one I've ever seen mentioned.
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Anonymous2012-12-19 21:11
Why does Akai like Horiguchi's designs? Has he worked at KyoAni before?
>>179
Shouko Ikeda has also gotten quite close to her style, like the chart says. Can't think of more individuals, though it's true that she influenced otaku stuff in general. Barely relevant to this thread, but I was reading a trap porn game for uh, scientific purposes, and the art was very much a bad Horiguchi ripoff. Kinda funny since it had a musical theme as well.
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Anonymous2012-12-19 22:14
Does KyoAni's animation school use their currently active animators to teach, or is it a different group in charge?
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Anonymous2012-12-19 23:21
>>183
Ishidate,Kitanohara and Seiichi Akitake are instructors of the animation class.
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Anonymous2012-12-19 23:22
>>183
Kitanohara and Hiroyuki Takahashi give lectures, but I don't know if they're the full-time teachers, and I don't think that's the case.
I'd guess it has to be someone that animated for them, or at least someone that knows how to animate.
I think my favorite episode of chu2 is still episode #6 in terms of animation. They way the expression are brought using body and faces is so lively, dynamic, and sometimes powerful. There isn't one super good cut, but it's just wonderful as a whole. I could watch the exchange between Yuuta and Isshiki over and over again. This was present in #12 too, but I think less so probably due Kigami not directing. Ueno really deserves her own show.
To contrast this, I think Kayo Hikiyama (1, 4, 12) did a meh job in Chu2. Especially in #12; I thought there were a lot of opportunity where she(?) could have corrected more drawings and add much more dynamic to the expression and make it less stiff and "boring", but she didn't. I liked her episodes in Hyouka much better.
Overall, Chu2 was a bit disappointing in the 2nd half, but still a lot of fun. Here's hoping Tamako Market can be as good as K-On, I have a feeling we'll see a lot of Utsumi x Kadowaki there.
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Anonymous2012-12-20 0:40
>>187
I still think the best Chuu2 episode overall was the Hiroko Utsumi/Miku Kadowaki one. From the storyboard to the expressions, it was really very solid and conveyed the mood of that situation very well.
That team is on fire really, after doing the awesome Hyouka 21 they did this one. Utsumi would be interesting as a supervisor, but I guess that'll never happen unless DO produces a show of their own.
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Anonymous2012-12-20 0:52
I think Kayo Hikiyama (1, 4, 12) did a meh job in Chu2. Especially in #12
>>188
My overall favorite was #10, but Utsumi's was definitely one of the best. Her approach to acting and storyboarding strikes me as more similar to Takemoto than say, Isihara; and that alone makes me look forward to her episodes. As for her being a surpervisor, I hope this image http://imgur.com/gmj30 will eventually amount to something
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Anonymous2012-12-20 2:23
Her approach to acting and storyboarding strikes me as more similar to Takemoto than say, Isihara
Not that guy but Ishihara seems to focus more on the acting of the characters than Takemoto does.
Takemoto has great sense of shot composition and the flow between shots. Takemoto also uses a lot of fancy cinematography techniques like dutch angle or dolly zoom(Vertigo shot) in his storyboard.
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Anonymous2012-12-20 3:26
Hyouka>Chuu2
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Anonymous2012-12-20 4:16
I liked Hiroko Utsumi in Hyouka very much... However I find his/her episode here quite flat.
Not that the directing was bad but rather the material given was quite bland.
For me, the most consistent director in Chuunibyou was Kawanami. That guy knows how to deliver gags, and knows how to handle serious moments. If there's anything I'd really want Kawanami to be promoted. However Ishidate and Utsumi are still a good candidate.
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Anonymous2012-12-20 4:51
(taken from 2ch's KyoAni thread)
Yamakan & Ishidate were trained under Kigami.
Kazuya Sakamoto was trained under Takemoto
Noriko Takao was trained under Yamakan
Hiroko Utsumi was trained under Tomoe Aratani (the yaoi lovers)
Eisaku Kawanami was trained under Mitsuyoshi Yoneda
Naoko Yamada was trained under Ishihara.
If that's true, Yoneda raised a damn good student.
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Anonymous2012-12-20 5:05
>>195
Both Aratani and Yoneda haven't worked on the past 2 KyoAni shows have they?
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Anonymous2012-12-20 5:52
>>197
Aratani left KyoAni sometime around 2009-2010, now works at Nintendo.
Yoneda apparently also left KyoAni but I don't know what he's doing now.
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Anonymous2012-12-20 6:48
Chikara #05's action animation wasn't as good as last week's. Nice smoke animation though, anyone got a staff list?
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Anonymous2012-12-20 7:14
>>194
My gripe with Kawanami is that he seems to go too over the top when handling serious moments. It happened in Hyouka 11 too, the conversation between Satoshi and Oreki seemed Oreki had contracted cancer and wasn't aware of it, totally out of scope of the true conflict.
He is awesome at comedy though, great comedic timing.
>>192
Takemoto seems to have been influenced by Shinbo a bit, from his work on Soultaker. I have not actually seen Soultaker, I just read raito-kun's blog and see Takemoto's directing in more recent works, ha.