Animation Appreciation Refuge Thread #1

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>>834

Jin-Roh openning credit translated enshutsu as animation director.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6ilseBj_1rM

Sakuga Mix 15

Anyone watching the Little Witch live event?

I am. But there's nothing too interesting so far/

There's just a guy in a hat talking...

17000 key animation drawings were used to create Little Witch Academia.

Get hyped.

>>846
What's LWA's running time?

>>847
30 minutes, I think.

>>839
Unit Director is one possibility.
Technical Director is also another.
"Animation Director" might work, but the enshutsu also tends to supervise scripts, storyboards, editing, and sound recording(besides the actual animation as well). Would these all encompass under the "Animation" label? Maybe, depending on your angle.

As for Sakuga Kantoku, this tends to be translated as Animation Director, which is passable. But it implies they have the ability to direct the animation, when their main job is to supervise the animation. They are the ones who decide layouts, deal with the Key Animators, sending cuts back and forth to be fixed and they often also end up becoming the KA checker and KA fixer.

In a sense, the enshutsu is more the person who DIRECTS the entire animation process so "Animation Director" from that angle makes sense. While the sakuga kantoku supervises the animation, so "Animation Supervisor" or "Key Animation Supervisor" might make more sense, since inbetween animators have their own checkers.

It's just an oav Little withc academia or it's a pilot for a full series ?

Those 17000 are for the 30 minutes only ? or for the eventual future series ?

>>850
It's a one shot project part of "Anime Mirai" which is a project lead my Animators Union in Japan that funds 3-4 animation projects each year to train animators in Japan. It used to be called "Young Animator Training Project" in the past.

By the way, should we move back to /anime/ for the next thread?
Spammer is no longer there, but he hit 2 threads randomly last week.

We can try.

>>852
To be honest I don't mind staying here, it's been pretty much spam-free here unlike /anime/ which still has the occasional bot/spammer posting random stuff.

Only 20 key animators on Wolf Children?

http://www.geneitaiyo.com/

Some Aniplex original anime

I don't really fancy the character designs

>>856
Imaishi new work.

>>857
lel

>>856
The character designs throw me off, yeah. Not because they're a bunch of lolis, I don't really care about that, I just don't like the artstyle at all. That aside, the PV has some neat visuals and if Aniplex decides to push the project hard it should have great production values.

Ha ha!
As expected from Chiyoko Ueno
http://randomc.net/image/Tamako%20Market/Tamako%20Market%20-%2008%20-%20Large%2021.jpg
http://randomc.net/image/Tamako%20Market/Tamako%20Market%20-%2008%20-%20Large%2030.jpg
http://randomc.net/image/Tamako%20Market/Tamako%20Market%20-%2008%20-%20Large%2001.jpg
http://randomc.net/image/Tamako%20Market/Tamako%20Market%20-%2008%20-%20Large%2005.jpg

>>860
The facial expressions?

>>860
No hotlinking!

>>861
Yes.
The eyes, to be specific.

She seems like a fun animation director.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5VSei_pAZs

Yoshinari talking

>>856

Looks like something that will become popular in Japan.

I think I'm animating this cut too realistic now, it's not going to fit to the whole scene....I will polish it into more stylistic motions.
https://twitter.com/bahijd/status/307916270504914944

No more Bahi's ROTOSCOPE thread on /a/.

>>866

Noooo I want muh realism

>>866
Instead we'll get Bahi QUALITY threads.

>>868
QUALITY threads are really awful, it's sad seeing people bash Sadamoto's designs for Wolf Children because they "don't look nearly as good as the poster". God.

Speaking of Wolf Children, I just watched it and the amount of Inoue animation was really something. Maybe he's going to stick with Hosoda like this for new projects?

Toshiyuki Inoue's cut in Ookami Kodomo was amazing, loved his effects animation. Character animation was good all round, that's to be expected of a Hosoda movie anyway. I noticed that this film had more usage of CGI than Hosoda's previous films, but I think it was used rather well for most of the part.

The tracking shot in the snow couldn't possibly be pulled off without a good use of CG. That whole scene was one of the best in the movie for me, if not the best.

If only more directors picked up on smart use of CG like this...

>>869
What other parts did Inoue animate besides the "skiing" scene? There were a number of parts with nice character animation, but I couldn't tell if it was Inoue's.

>>869
people bash Sadamoto's designs for Wolf Children because they "don't look nearly as good as the poster".

Didn't the poster have the exact same character design as the anime?

>>851
thanks dude

>>873
Yes.

>>872

The scene where Ume falls into the river.

>>876
*Ame

>>872
IIRC the bit where Ame and Yuki fight at the dinner table as teens and then turn into full on wolves, much of that fight was Inoue.
Then the bit at the end where Ame sees his mother and runs off.
Plus the snow and river bits already mentioned.

There's quite a few scenes detailed on the sakuga wiki, on who did what.

to busterbeam
re:old imaishi

https://twitter.com/Rafchu/status/307886197424918528/photo/1
that's hideyuki morioka (character designer at shaft now but he was a gainax animator back then)

https://twitter.com/Rafchu/status/307886709998231554/photo/1
https://twitter.com/Rafchu/status/307885244181266433/photo/1
these are tsurumaki

http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=705871
i think this is tsurumaki as well

these are imaishi:
http://g.e-hentai.org/s/e8579c1f5e/251437-58
http://g.e-hentai.org/s/58f5fbeb71/251437-56
(left is morioka)
http://g.e-hentai.org/s/52f5afefa3/251437-49
(right is yoshinari)

by the way
http://g.e-hentai.org/s/2bae02861d/251437-139
nobutoshi ogura