>>241
From my experience, the ones at the top are generally the ones that did the most work on the episode, or in some cases they are the ones that are the most renowned between all the animators that worked on the episode.
>>245
>or in some cases they are the ones that are the most renowned between all the animators that worked on the episode.
This is only in the case for TV anime.
Usually the ones at the top did a lot of relatively easy cuts, the ones at the bottom did a few relatively difficult/elaborate cuts.
Sometimes the animators are listed in order of appearance of the respective animator's cuts (the one at the top did the beginning, the one at the bottom the last few cuts). Hiroshi Ikehata (ahoboy) used this kind of credit order in some of his old episodes, probably as a favor to sakuga nerds.
Sometimes it's ordered alphabetically.
In some cases the credit system changes from episode to episode even within a series. In Persona 4 some episodes had the key animators ordered alphabetically, in others they used another system.
Indie short from "Nosferatu". Bare with the shitty animation from the beginning because there are a few really good cuts in this once the fight scenes start (as well as a few tokusatsu and mecha homages, for anyone interested).
Cool anthology of 16 short films that I think most people here should enjoy (it's animation for animation's sake mostly). A couple of the shorts are very crudely animated (one of them, Unbalance, isn't even animated) but have a lot of charm. Yamamura's Fig and Tokyo Strut by Sato Masahiko and Ueta Mio are really, really good. Nuance and Manipulated Man were pretty interesting too. It's worth watching for these alone I think, and the whole anthology isn't even an hour and a half long.
Right now there's just me and one other guy seeding that torrent. If there's anyone interested you should grab it before the torrent dies. I'm going to seed for as long as I can, but I'm upping it off my laptop so it won't be on 24/7.
The Kanada school has gone through many phases, and if Arai's work is any indication, it is now in its decadent phase. It's all carefully polished stylization, where the master was all about dynamism at the expense of polish. The style is just what resulted; it wasn't the goal. Miyazaki's words from 30 years ago about the man and his imitators still ring true today. To be fair, this isn't a new trend. Yamashita Masahito and the 80s followers were the ones who first pushed Kanada's stylization to its decadent extreme, with geometrical smoke and insanely detailed shadows. Arai just updates the tradition. It's not unpleasant to watch. It's just predictable. It was fun back then because it was like they were sneaking it in.
it's true though, I have read the old Miyazaki interview about Kanada.
Only Kanada can be the true master of the Kanada style and make it look cool.
If Kanada was still around, I'm sure his style would have truly developed, but Arasan isn't really developing it.
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Anonymous2013-09-09 6:07
I want to see a new style instead of a new version of an old style.
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Anonymous2013-09-09 6:09
Nothing we didn't know. I've been saying Kanada style animation is shit since forever, and even posted about it's shitty-ness many times in these threads. Of course, there are hoards of people who won't let it die and then there are also fans who have raised this shit on a pedestal, especially since Tengen Toppa is so popular.
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Anonymous2013-09-09 6:10
I will put all my hopes on those animators that think different.
Kill La Kill ain't gonna be revolutionary.
Yoshinari style mixed with Imaishi style.
I think now it's really the time for a new era after Miyazaki announced his retirement.
He stepped back, it means that something new has to take the lead.
>>257
>If Kanada was still around, I'm sure his style would have truly developed
But the thing is, Kanada did develop. His work in the 90s as rare as it is is much different to his 70s or 80s work or the copycat work people did in the 80s.
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Anonymous2013-09-09 8:08
>>260
>He stepped back, it means that something new has to take the lead.
Please stop, Miyazaki has always been separate from the rest of the animation industry. He contributed little to nothing to the industry. Ghibli productions have little to no influence on what happens in the rest of the animation industry. His retirement will mean nothing, the industry will continue on as usual.