Little Witch Academia isn't really "animation training fare",; it's in fact completely different from any other Anime Mirai project. It's a pilot. Plain and simple. It's a fucking pilot for the Little Witch Academia idea. They're already sellig merchandise. Yoshinari and Ootsuka both said that they would love to do more. They're advertising whenever they can. It's meant to make money in the long term, I'm sure of it.
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Anonymous2013-03-31 19:58
I;m not making a huge deal out of anything. You on the other hand are getting pathetically defensive.
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Anonymous2013-03-31 20:00
Did Death Billiards have any veteran animators working on it as well like LWA did?
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Anonymous2013-03-31 20:00
And you seriously need to lern how to read.
At least I'm making you discuss something. So deal with it.
Every one of these shorts does. They're not done by rookies. Some of the staff members (1 or 2 guys really) are new and they're using the projects to train them.
>The project aims to promote works where the animation studio retains rights to the work by allowing studios to do so with the finished products.
Basically, Trigger can do wahtever they want with Little Witch Academia. It's theirs.
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Anonymous2013-03-31 20:21
About Animemirai, I heard from one animator/animation instructor (he's not Japanese but he did some subcontract work for Japanese studios) that they didn't care much about training young animators. The studios just wanted to show what their staffs could do with decent budget and schedule.
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Anonymous2013-03-31 20:21
Well I wouldn't mind a proper series. But the short worked well as a standalone, unlike Arve Rezzle which really felt like a pilot episode/prologue.
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It's probably "training" in the sense that it's animating experience, and due to the nature of the project it's free from all the constraints of typical TV anime that make it hard for the animators to hone their craft and do their best. I don't think Hori and the other two are actively coaching the rest of the animators, not anymore than any project in where young and old animators are co-working in the same place.
About a series, I'd prefer if they didn't. They will never top this short with a TV production. Maybe if they do some OVAs or a film...
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Anonymous2013-03-31 21:23
I wonder if Untitled Imaishi Project will be 12-13 or 24-26 episodes long. Probably 13.
A bit late to the LWA party, I thought it was good as I expected. Lively character animation and stylish effects animation all around. Yoshinari-style effects are wonderful to look at.
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Even if it doesn't look good, the technique is unique and relevant to people interested in animation. Unless it ends up looking not only bad, but painfully generic, I think it's okay to have it at the sakuga@wiki.