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[Vilix]

Pretty cool though I felt like the music wasn't completely right, so I added my own:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXash0oCxVE

I

FUCKING

CAME.

 

[Wyndstryker]

Went in with little expectations

Left wanting more.

 

[Branduil]

Exactly what he said

What style is "shitty modern style animu"?

 

[BattleMonkey]

There is no "modern style". It's a medium with a billion different styles, not a genre with one.

Modern style meaning , missing the awesome 80's style of epic anime.

 

[Boss Doggie]

There is no "modern style". It's a medium with a billion different styles, not a genre with one.

More of an encompassing style actually. The "clean" look found in animation today as well as the "default" face and body style is also there.

It's one of those "you can tell when the anime is made by looking at it".

 

[DUFFMCWALIN]

The Star Wars fan inside of me is angry at the shit thats wrong in the video. But then realizes that its a pointless fucking battle. Looks nice.

 

[ronito]

As someone who gave up on Star wars ages ago I gotta say I'd watch the hell out of a show like this.

 

[Branduil]

More of an encompassing style actually. The "clean" look found in animation today as well as the "default" face and body style is also there.

It's one of those "you can tell when the anime is made by looking at it".

What's the "default" face and body style?

 

[Zapages]

that was pure awesomeness... Lucas arts needs to get this guy a job to do an anime on this.... Really amazing!!! Just have no characters talk and have composed music in the background that sets the tone of the episode like the those old Tom and Jerry episodes but now with Star Wars.

 

[SKINNER!]

Pretty cool though I felt like the music wasn't completely right, so I added my own:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXash0oCxVE

lmao! Nicely done. It fits perfectly!

 

[Crash Station]

Modern style meaning , missing the awesome 80's style of epic anime.

But that exists today too.

 

[Risette]

More of an encompassing style actually. The "clean" look found in animation today as well as the "default" face and body style is also there.

It's one of those "you can tell when the anime is made by looking at it".

You can do that with any era.

Not to mention you're wrong anyways.

 

[radios shipping overview]

I don't think he's rotoscoping his characters, but the ships are rotoscoped over CGI.

His character animation is substantially better than on his Dr. Who short, but that's not saying much. It still leaves a lot to be desired, and I wish he would spend more time getting that right than painstakingly overshading everything.

It seems like the only reason Otaking makes these videos is to evangelize his five-shades manifesto. He could be spending time improving his skill in other areas of animation, creating his own original full-length projects, etc., but he seems pretty fixated on making his point.

 

[jmdajr]

Shit, that was pretty sweet!

 

[jmdajr]

I like the colors/shading. It reminds me of that 80's OVA look, which I vastly prefer to what you usually see today.

I was thinking the same. Love this style. Missed.

 

[Gutsy Frog]

More of an encompassing style actually. The "clean" look found in animation today as well as the "default" face and body style is also there.

It's one of those "you can tell when the anime is made by looking at it".

The hyper-shaded 80s otaku OVA look (i.e. what people mean when they say '80s anime style') also had a 'default face style', with some changes from series to series. Katsuhiro Otomo's stuff didn't adhere to that, but Otaking can't take inspiration from that because it's really hard to emulate that style, even in a superficial way. You need to be able to draw in a way that is both stylized and extremely natural, with significant basis in reality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hagy9dyfqao more visually interesting 80s stuff that Otaking would never use as an influence.

 

[Branduil]

The hyper-shaded 80s otaku OVA look (i.e. what people mean when they say '80s anime style') also had a 'default face style', with some changes from series to series. Katsuhiro Otomo's stuff didn't adhere to that, but Otaking can't take inspiration from that because it's really hard to emulate that style, even in a superficial way. You need to be able to draw in a way that is both stylized and extremely natural, with significant basis in reality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hagy9dyfqao more visually interesting 80s stuff that Otaking would never use as an influence.

I wish Mitsuo Iso would start animating stuff again.

 

[Hazaro]

Wow Otaking really has done quite a fantastic job, especially for a WIP.
Lasers were the best part. Delicious random flameness for the first 1 or 2 frames gets me giddy.

 

[Boss Doggie]

But that exists today too.

What's the "default" face and body style?

I'm not saying they don't exist today (Redline is awesome). It's just that they're niche.

You can do that with any era.

Not to mention you're wrong anyways.

Nah, it's why you have that weird "here's a character from K-On drawn from different eras".

 

[Branduil]

I'm not saying they don't exist today (Redline is awesome). It's just that they're niche.

I'm just asking for examples of what the default face and body style is.

 

[Canis lupus]

That was awesome, nice job. Always wondered why there is no SW anime.

 

[Hero]

Damn right.

Can you push the powers that be to let a Star Wars anime be made? Even if not a full series but something ala Animatrix or the Halo Anime, where it's a collection of shorts by different companies?

 

[Boss Doggie]

I'm just asking for examples of what the default face and body style is.

Sword Art Online, while Polar Bear Cafe has (thankfully) only one recurring human she does have that feature, Sket Dance, those shows with moe focus, etc.

Then the awesome art are like Tiger and Bunny, and Redline. I wish the shows/movies with similar artstyles of those two are made more common.

 

[/XX/]

I wish Mitsuo Iso would start animating stuff again.

You know, the problem of being so desired is that people are willing to believe every rumor and trust every source that mentions he will participate on something like Evangelion: 3.0 out of expectations based on his previous involvement with the franchise (threads like this one http://unkar.org/r/eva/1268242631 as a result of that). Said this, there is the possibility, apparently.

Spoiler

Or maybe he really has been working on From the New World instead. Or on both? Difficult to say right now.

 

[Branduil]

You know, the problem of being so desired is that people are willing to believe every rumor and trust every source that mentions he will participate on something like Evangelion: 3.0 out of expectations based on his previous involvement with the franchise (threads like this one http://unkar.org/r/eva/1268242631 as a result of that). Said this, there is the possibility, apparently.

Spoiler

Or maybe he really has been working on From the New World instead. Or on both? Difficult to say right now.

I'd like to see his work again either way.

 

[/XX/]

I'd like to see his work again either way.

Indeed! Man, I can't even imagine how much of an event for recent Japanese animation this movie could be if some of the rumors are definitely true; people like Hiroyuki Okiura and Yoshimichi Kameda are said to be in this as well, and without counting Mr. Anno's close associates, like Takeshi Honda as an example, that for sure will participate. There is too much anticipation now!

 

[Lokimaru]

If this is what the Emps are like then it's a miracle the Alliance accomplished what they did cause this was an ass kicking. No wonder they are on the run in Empire.