Asuka and Mari have not aged due to something called "The Curse of Eva." Everyone else has
Nerv has been disbanded after failing to stop Third Impact. The remaining Nerv crewmembers minus Gendo have formed a new group called Wille (that is how it is spelled in the concept art) whose theoretical goal is to clean the oceans but whose actual goal is to prevent Gendo from causing Fourth Impact. They have a floating Evangelion-carrier called The Wunder. Misato's the captain, of course.
Eva-01 is in a tesseract on the moon. The opening is Mari and Asuka recovering it so that The Wunder can use it as a power source and so they can rescue Shinji, (Rei seems iffier on the rescue front. She is in the film but it's hard to find out how, but there is an Evangelion Mark.09 which is clearly a Rei-piloted unit or meant to look like one.)
Shinji is rescued, Kaworu shows up and at some point the two of them co-pilot Evangelion Unit 13, which resembles Eva-01 but with two eyes and two sets of arms.
I always though they were more involved than usual, but it seems their roles vary depending on the production. They either do a lot of key animation and/or are the AD for a few eps.
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Anonymous2012-12-16 3:07
>>85
Is that using rotoscoped CGI at 3:47 to 3:57?
That's progress people. KyoAni hasn't seen much progress except maybe post production stuff. Otherwise animation has been the same and their shitty character designs have been stapled forever to K-ON.
This is the definition of having no life.
seriously, arguing about something that no once cares about.
If you really care, get a ticket to tokyo, go into KyoAni's studio and tell them your shit.
Otherwise you are wasting your time.
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Anonymous2012-12-16 8:39
How would people ranking the animation of the various works of Sunrise these days?
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Anonymous2012-12-16 8:53
>>111
Nozomu Abe did a damn wonderful job in Accel World. Horizon also had various good fight scenes. Not sure if there are any other recent works worth noting about, maybe Nerawareta Gakuen and Kim Se Jun's cuts in Age. Overall, not too bad.
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Anonymous2012-12-16 9:03
>>88
He tweeted about the earlier episodes of Chuunibyou and SSY from what I remember.
I do miss his blog posts because there was a lot of good information and insight there, not just animator namedropping.
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Anonymous2012-12-16 9:30
>>112
Sacred Seven had a good budget and good animators working on it.