Animation Appreciation Thread #15

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>>517

Most mecha in anime move with human movements though. It's the one thing most mecha anime bullshit over and that is how two joysticks and some pedals manage to get a robot to move so varyingly. That is because the directors and animators want the robots to move with human like motions. Just take the Evangelion units. Mecha that move with human or even beast like movements.

That requires knowledge of human/character animation as well as being able to draw these large, lumpy mechanical structures.

I'd say:
average/shit character animation > average/shit mechanical animation

I have seen some horrendously drawn monkey scribbles tried to be passed off as mecha animation, it's too hard for the average freelancer who doesn't give a shit. Being a mecha sakkan is also hard since there just so much more to correct compared to a chara sakkan who often only works on correcting character faces.

But
top tier mecha animation  > top tier character animation

Since mecha derives from chara, effect & mecha. Expertise in all areas is required to deliver top notch animation.

Take someone like Yutapon, he was almost exclusively a mecha animator when he first started, now we know him more for his character work. It's because he excelled at mecha that he is great at chara work imo.