Animation Appreciation thread #18

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Appreciate animation pls

>>294
You know what he means because people intuitively know what "decadence" means in most contexts where it is used. It's not hard to grasp, and really >>291 seems like a (incorrect) nitpick because you wanted to call the guy pretentious.

Now onto more on-topic stuff:
The decline not moral AND cultural, it's just a cultural decline (i.e. decline in the artistic quality of that kind of animation).
Excessive indulgence means they just stylize things in that way for the sake of doing it, because they just love shading and marked poses, instead of trying to progress and evolve the style in any way. I can agree with that when it comes to Arasan and most new Kanada animators, their work is stale and uninteresting. They don't seem to be thinking about what they draw so much as aping their heroes mindlessly.

Imaishi is a good example of a good "new" Kanada animator, because not only he ramped up the speed and craziness (making people turn into blobs), but he brought a cartoony sensibility to his animation that makes it much nicer to watch and far more individualistic than most other copycats'.
I think he is an amazing animator and, frankly, I'd have preferred if he stayed as an animator. His shows are good, but the side-effect is that he animates less, and what makes his aesthetic REALLY worthy is his own animation more than anything else. IMO his best achievement as a director was FLCL 5, after that he has done countless cool things but nothing on that level.