No nobody's surprise, MJP's CGI was nicely done and there were some well-animated cuts of hand-drawn explosions in the prologue. The Hiraifaces weren't too bad to look at since they were making all sorts of silly faces most of the time.
A bit disappointed with Photo Kano's animation, unremarkable stuff but there were some neat layouts thanks to Yokoyama.
Ans speaking of layouts, Maou-sama had quite a number of good ones. I'm quite pleased with this show, the prologue was nicely animated and I think there was some nice bits of character animation later in the episode.
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Anonymous2013-04-05 4:38
most people would rather mention the Iso tank
I don't know about most, but imo that's definitely the best scene in the film, animation wise. Of course, the opening sequence is fantastic as well.
Also, pretend 2.0 doesn't exist (even though there is some stuff behind it, making it more "consistent" visually with innocence, but yeah, it's crap). At least they didn't retcon the original.
Well, most things he was involved in have excellent animation. Not to mention that if you're into realistic animation he's the go to creator (when you think about this style of animation, as far as titles go the first to come to mind are Patlabor, Gits/Innocence) .
As a director and creator, he's one of my favourites. On my list only Takahata and Anno rank higher.
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Anonymous2013-04-05 4:59
>>450
I really like Ryotimo's illustration work as well as Shouko Nakamura's.
I also see Cindy H Yamauchi, Takaaki Waada, Eiji Komatsu, Shin Wakabayashi and Takenori Tsukuma
Can you post who did the AD, storyboards and direction?
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Anonymous2013-04-05 5:51
i can't moonstone, is that the obari thing in autumn?
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Anonymous2013-04-05 5:56
God I hate Hamasaki Hiroshi. What the hell does he find so interesting about bloom and that shitty gray filter? Every damn one of his titles suffer from this crap. Texhnolyze, Shigurui, Steins;Gate and now Technovore. Just, why... it just ruins the colours.
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Anonymous2013-04-05 5:59
New Obari robot anime, starting /TOMORROW/
2D Mecha.
Director: Obari
Mecha AD & Designs: Masahiro Yamane
Character Designs: Kotobuki Tsukasa
Looks to be a short anime, like many are these days.
>>486 Soichiro Matsuda worked in Majestic Prince #1 he did really nice explosions at the beginning
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Anonymous2013-04-05 9:10
>>514
Wow, so this is pretty much a "pile everyone on top and hope for the best" kind of work.
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Anonymous2013-04-05 9:19
I'm watching the Aku no Hana livestream now, this rotoscope is, uh, something I guess. The characters look pretty strange since they're just traced over actors, a bit of that uncanny valley kicking in. It's nice too see a lot of movement, but there's just something funny about the rotoscope. I'm not sure what to think of it.
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Anonymous2013-04-05 9:23
what is Space Dandy?
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Anonymous2013-04-05 9:29
>>518
Studio Bones new work this fall
Rumors say Shinchiro Watanabe is directing
Rumors say Dai Sato is scripting
Rumors say Thomas Roman is doing design/backgrounds