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[TUSR]

This Autumn.

We watch again.

What awaits us this season?​

Heaven.
Or hell?​

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen

| Shaft | Light Novel | PV1 | PV2 |

Hibike! Euphonium Second Season

| KyoAni | Novel | PV1 | PV2 | Thoraxes' Reviews |

Brave Witches

| Silver Link. | Original | PV1 |

March Comes in Like a Lion (3-gatsu no Lion)

| Shaft | Manga | PV1 |

Occultic;Nine

| A-1 Pictures | Light Novel | PV1 |

Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou VS Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou (Third Season)

| Production I.G | Manga | PV1 | PV2 | PV3 |

Izetta, The Last Witch (Shuumatsu no Izetta)

| Ajia-Do | Original | PV1 | PV2 | PV3 | PV4 | PV5 |

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 2nd Season

| Sunrise | Original | PV1 | PV2 |

ClassicaLoid

| Sunrise | Original | PV1 | PV2 |

Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season

| Bones | Manga | PV3 |

ALL OUT!

| Madhouse | Manga | PV1 |

WWW.WORKING!!

| A-1 Pictures | Web Manga | Trailer |

SIMULCAST SCHEDULE


Simulcast timezone converter

An interactive chart detailing the seasonal anime shows, shorts, movies and OVAs.

All Simulcast times are listed as UTC+00:00

Monday
14:30 Stella no Mahou

17:00 Gakuen Handsome

17:35 Trickster

18:05 Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume

22:10 Nyanbo!

Tuesday
11:00 Soul Buster

13:55 Nobunaga no Shinobi

14:30 Soushi Shoujo Matoi

19:00 Kaijuu Girls

19:05 Natsume Yuujinchou Go

19:30 Nanbaka

Wednesday
10:55 Sousei no Onmyouji

11:00 To Be Hero

11:15 Cheating Craft

14:40 Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki

14:40 Teekyuu S8

14:50 Mahou shoujo nante mou ii desu kara S2

14:55 Anime de Training XX

15:30 Crane Game Girls Galaxy

15:50 Nazotokine

16:35 Brave Witches

16:58 Girlish Number

17:00 Hibike! Euphonium

17:35 Bungou Stray Dogs S2

19:00 Yuri On Ice

Thursday
12:00 Flip Flappers

14:00 Regalia - The Three Sacred Stars

15:55 Fune wo Amu

16:00 Keijo!!!!!!!!

16:00 Bernard-jou Iwaku

16:30 All Out!!

Friday
13:30 Dream Festival

14:30 Drifters

16:30 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable

17:30 Lostorage incited WIXOSS

18:25 Haikyuu!! S3

Saturday
04:58 Watashi ga Motete Dousunda

11:00 Time Bokan 24

11:00 Classicaloid

13:30 Bloodivores

14:00 Bubuki Buranki S2

14:30 Long Riders!

15:30 ViVid Strike!

15:45 Shuumatsu no Izetta

16:00 WWW.WORKING!!

16:15 Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku

16:30 Occultic;Nine

17:00 Sangatsu no Lion

17:00 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Legend Star

17:42 Sengoku Choujuu Giga

18:55 Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari

19:28 Days

19:45 Tiger Mask W

Sunday
03:00 Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On

09:00 Mobile Suit Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans S2

14:00 Show By Rock!!#

15:00 Okusama ga Seitokaichou! +!

15:30 Magic★Kyun! Renaissance

16:00 Touken Ranbu -Hanamaru-

18:05 Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan

19:15 Ao Oni

- Crunchyroll

- Funimation

- Daisuki

- Amazon Prime

- The Anime Network

CONTINUING SHOWS

OFFICIAL THREADS

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans S2OT「Tekkadan is MURDERERS, HAIL GJALLARHORN」
Izetta, The Last Witch |OT| Alternate WWII with a magic touch
Magical Girl Raising Project |OT| Madoka x Future Diary = Magical Girl Battle Royale

AIR DATES

October 1

• Bloodivores
• Shuumatsu no Izetta
• Time Bokan 24
• WWW.Working!!

October 2

• Ao Oni The Animation
• Bubuki Buranki: Hoshi no Kyojin
• Chi's Sweet Home (2016)
• Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
• Magic Kyun! Renaissance
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 2nd Season
• Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On
• Okusama ga Seitokaichou!+!
• Show By Rock!! #
• Ame-iro Cocoa in Hawaii
• Tiger Mask W
• Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Legend Star
• ViVid Strike!

October 3

• 3-Nen D-Gumi Glass no Kamen
• 12-sai.: Chicchana Mune no Tokimeki 2nd Season
• Kaitou Joker 4th Season
• Idol Memories
• Stella no Mahou
• Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru

October 4

• Gakuen Handsome
• Nobunaga no Shinobi
• Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
• Soul Buster
• Soushin Shoujo Matoi
• Trickster: Edogawa Ranpo "Shounen Tanteidan" yori

October 5

• Anitore! XX
• Bishoujo Yuugi Unit Crane Game Girls Galaxy
• Cheating Craft
• Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki
• Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season
• Natsume Yuujinchou Go
• Nazotokine
• Teekyuu 8
• To Be Hero

October 6

• Brave Witches
• Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season
• Flip Flappers
• Hibike! Euphonium 2nd Season
• Keijo!!!!!!!!
• Yuri!!! on Ice

October 7

• All Out!!
• Bernard-jou Iwaku.
• Drifters
• Gi(a)rlish Number
• Nanbaka
• Watashi ga Motete Dousunda

October 8

• 3-gatsu no Lion
• Ajin 2nd Season
• ClassicaLoid
• Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou VS Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou
• Long Riders!
• Lostorage Incited WIXOSS
• Occultic;Nine
• Sengoku Choujuu Giga

October 9

• Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari

October 14

• Fune wo Amu

October 22

• Luger Code 1951

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[NaDannMaGoGo]

Highest quality Anime OT yet. Impressive as always TUSR!

 

[SliceSabre]

This is the OT we deserve.

 

[Camel Master]

Emperor's new OT

 

[Cornbread78]

Oh, how sly TUSR....

Under Construction, I gave you the Gif and everything,,,

This OT:

 

[names2hard4you]

Gotta say though TUSR, dat title. That's some good stuff. That's the Canadian in you shining through.

 

[Hellwarden]

Summer season was surprisingly good.

 

[nintendoman58]

Wall of Shame:

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Russ T	102

 

[Gvitor]

The best OT on GAF

 

[Hellwarden]

DTL missed like a 1/3 of the season, and he still charted that high?

 

[names2hard4you]

Never thought the day would come in which I am over DTL's post count. Although I guess it only happened because of his ban.

 

[Cornbread78]

Gotta say though TUSR, dat title. That's some good stuff. That's the Canadian in you shining through.

This is what he's saying:

The Eupho hype is real...

 

[Moaradin]

Haikyuu is gonna be cool

 

[nintendoman58]

One of these days I'll check out Haikyuu.

 

[Scrooge McDuck]

From the last thread...

Youjo Senki PV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf8xFKUKXg4
notNazi loli time.

Reading around, it seems like this is yet another story about a dead Japanese man reincarnated into another world?

The fascination of Japan with Nazi Germany (and Germany in general) is fairly funny too and I'd love an explanation outside of them being allies in the war.

Not in Japan, but I once did an interview with some Nazi enthusiasts in my country and they explained that it's simply because their uniform and symbol designs are aesthetically pleasing.

 

[Clov]

Surprised to see myself back on the wall! It's been a while, I think.

In vaguely anime related news, my fiance and I are going to see Shin Godzilla on October 12th. Really excited to see another Anno film in the theater. It'll also be the first live action work of his I see, since I still haven't gotten around to watching Shiki-Jitsu (which had a fairly mixed reception).

 

[Lalalandia]

What's the difference between a tank otaku who claims to be apolitical and doesn't want to engage in any sort of discussion about the social context of military weaponry because it might make their hobby uncomfortable, and a waifu otaku who doesn't want to be a SJW because talking about the social context of sexualization and female representation in entertainment in general makes their hobby uncomfortable?

I don't think military otaku who claim to be apolitical are purists, I think they tend to be deflectors who are insecure about their hobby and feel threatened by people might have something negative to say about something they are superficially interested in. Military and history buffs who really have respect and deep interest in the subject don't shy away from the historical nature of things they might be fascinated with. You can appreciate the technical power of a weapon of war without ignoring the reality of its nature. Embracing the negative aspects of history is a good way to have a balanced understanding of something you are interested in.

My father is an antique dealer and I helped him out until I left for college, we hated militaria collectors. To a man they were more frequently interested in wasting your time with 'what ifs' than buying and those into German WW2 militaria were the worst. Of course I'm generalising here but in our experience those that were into collecting were vastly out numbered by people indulging a sort of perverse fascination with Nazism specifically rather than German arms and armour. We eventually stopped stocking that stuff because of the low sales and the type of folks who would come looking for it.

There really is no such thing as 'apolitical' and trying to ignore the context of why they were made, for whom they were made or how they were made is a strongly political stance in itself. Fetishising the likes of the Tiger, Panther or V2 without addressing their very real weaknesses all plays into neo-Nazi propaganda about the superiority of German forces being done in by the crude Soviet hordes.

Yeah I really hate this crap and I won't be touching Notzi Loli 2000 or whatever unless I read on here that it addresses what the people wearing those 'cool' uniforms actually did.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

My father is an antique dealer and I helped him out until I left for college, we hated militaria collectors. To a man they were more frequently interested in wasting your time with 'what ifs' than buying and those into German WW2 militaria were the worst. Of course I'm generalising here but in our experience those that were into collecting were vastly out numbered by people indulging a sort of perverse fascination with Nazism specifically rather than German arms and armour. We eventually stopped stocking that stuff because of the low sales and the type of folks who would come looking for it.

There really is no such thing as 'apolitical' and trying to ignore the context of why they were made, for whom they were made or how they were made is a strongly political stance in itself. Fetishising the likes of the Tiger, Panther or V2 without addressing their very real weaknesses all plays into neo-Nazi propaganda about the superiority of German forces being done in by the crude Soviet hordes.

Yeah I really hate this crap and I won't be touching Notzi Loli 2000 or whatever unless I read on here that it addresses what the people wearing those 'cool' uniforms actually did.

How do you feel about Girls und Panzer?

 

[Qurupeke]

Thanks TUSR. The start of the best season.

 

[gashikunFLCL]

Nice work TUSR.

Animegaf, Library Wars is worth a watch?

 

[Jintor]

reposting in new thread

What's the difference between a tank otaku who claims to be apolitical and doesn't want to engage in any sort of discussion about the social context of military weaponry because it might make their hobby uncomfortable, and a waifu otaku who doesn't want to be a skeleton because talking about the social context of sexualization and female representation in entertainment in general makes their hobby uncomfortable?

I don't think military otaku who claim to be apolitical are purists, I think they tend to be deflectors who are insecure about their hobby and feel threatened by people might have something negative to say about something they are superficially interested in. Military and history buffs who really have respect and deep interest in the subject don't shy away from the historical nature of things they might be fascinated with. You can appreciate the technical power of a weapon of war without ignoring the reality of its nature. Embracing the negative aspects of history is a good way to have a balanced understanding of something you are interested in.

well, i'm basically conflating the terms of 'purist' and 'doesn't want to talk about the glaring problems with my hobby'

How do you feel about Girls und Panzer?

girls und panzer is so weird because it displays an near-encyclopedic knowledge of that era of warfare, often with very specific jokes about certain tanks being unreliable or whatever or Japanese tanks being utterly garbage. Hell, it even alludes to stuff like the Russia equiv school commander being moe Stalin and threatening to gulag people or send them to Siberia...

...you know, I guess the thing that it feels to me like what military otaku want is to get to talk about how awesome guns and shit are but not to have to talk about how they kill things, while I think american gun nuts seem to have a bigger lock on the right to kill things. Sorry, defend themselves.

(Not all gun nuts)

 

[Cornbread78]

BTW, the OT for Magical Girl Raising Project (Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku) is up since I hit "Submit" instead of "Preview":


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=218619992#post218619992


I'll finish the character updates and edits after I finish the other OT.

 

[Joe Molotov]

I approve of this upgraded GAF-chan.

 

[Lalalandia]

How do you feel about Girls und Panzer?

I actually really like the series but I recognise it's a car crash if you're looking for any sort of historical perspective. It helps that they've created an obviously fantastical universe where tank matches between schools are a normal part of life. and that the protagonists are the only team that are not defined by a single nationality unlike literally every other school.

On the other hand the series in question (edit:Youjo Senki) appears to offering up a Notzi nation that is simply Nazi Germany with a dash of WW1 Imperial Germany. I can't read Japanese but the visuals appear to implying that the show will be following a Notzi Loli leading a country that is Nazi Germany in all but name and presumably without touching any of the aspects that made German forces so notorious such as 'anti-partisan' sweeps and Einsatzkommandos.

So yeah if you want to pretend tanks don't have an historical context stick them in a CDCT show set on giant aircraft carriers

...
girls und panzer is so weird because it displays an near-encyclopedic knowledge of that era of warfare, often with very specific jokes about certain tanks being unreliable or whatever or Japanese tanks being utterly garbage. Hell, it even alludes to stuff like the Russia equiv school commander being moe Stalin and threatening to gulag people or send them to Siberia...

Yeah one of the things that endears GuP to me is that someone on it clearly knew them some tanks and was willing to shoe horn that knowledge into their CDCT show., iirc they even make a joke about the KV-2 needing near perfectly flat terrain to rotate it's main turret. Of course they had an Italian team with tankettes that lasted more than 30 seconds so not everything was about historical accuracy

 

[Clov]

Looks like Gundam Thunderbolt is getting a UHD BD release in Japan. I'm curious as to how much better it will look compared to the regular BD version. The set includes the English dub and and English subtitles, in case there's any Gundam fans here that have a 4K TV and a UHD BD player.

 

[PK Gaming]

Best Gaf-chan yet

 

[Cornbread78]

I'm sad now... I was told I was getting a Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? OVA not a Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Hot Spring? ova

trailer for the ova

ANN article about how it is in a hot spring

Dammit.... Well, it is an OVA after all...

 

[Camel Master]

Finished Battery, it was ok. Kinda slow and sometimes a bit boring but a little bit different anime with a sports theme, kept me interested enough until the end. Overall bad season for sports animes when this one was the best from the three I gave a chance.

Haikyuu is going to be amazing, can't wait.

 

[nintendoman58]

Thunderbolt Fantasy S2 announced.

There you go, folks.

 

[Jintor]

So yeah if you want to pretend tanks don't have an historical context stick them in a CDCT show set on giant aircraft carriers

i mean shit man everyone here has played a fighting game or an fps. yo fighting is fun and tank warfare in sports form is fun as hell

 

[Deadly]

Thunderbolt Fantasy S2 announced.

There you go, folks.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Who's the new redhead?

 

[Lalalandia]

Looks like Gundam Thunderbolt is getting a UHD BD release in Japan. I'm curious as to how much better it will look compared to the regular BD version. The set includes the English dub and and English subtitles, in case there's any Gundam fans here that have a 4K TV and a UHD BD player.

Unless they drew their original art in a format with a wider color gamut than Rec. 709 (BD) or sRGB then it really shouldn't. The animation studios I've worked with tended to stick to sRGB because they were primarily TV focused and the cost of outfitting a studio for wide colour gamuts is not small (getting every artist a wide gamut capable screen, calibration, etc, etc).

 

[duckroll]

Anime still sucks!!!

Errr so are we locking the other thread or not? Why isn't there a proper OP?

 

[Hellwarden]

Thunderbolt Fantasy S2 announced.

There you go, folks.

Good, I need more puppets in my life.

 

[Lalalandia]

i mean shit man everyone here has played a fighting game or an fps. yo fighting is fun and tank warfare in sports form is fun as hell

Yeah I really want a Girls und Flugzeug (please excuse my Google German) with the same level of fun and detail GuP had, pretty sure Brave Witches won't scratch that itch this season

 

[duckroll]

Unless they drew their original art in a format with a wider color gamut than Rec. 709 (BD) or sRGB then it really shouldn't. The animation studios I've worked with tended to stick to sRGB because they were primarily TV focused and the cost of outfitting a studio for wide colour gamuts is not small (getting every artist a wide gamut capable screen, calibration, etc, etc).

It probably was in this case. I was skeptical of the 4K nature of this, but....

http://animeanime.jp/article/2015/11/23/25803.html

It seems way back last year when they first announced it, they already stated that it's the first Gundam project which was being mastered in 4K. So they probably took HDR into account too for the production. Since the Sunrise studio making Thunderbolt is the same one which worked on Gundam Unicorn, they aren't really being held back by shitty TV standards.

 

[TheRancor]

Anime is poop

 

[Clov]

Unless they drew their original art in a format with a wider color gamut than Rec. 709 (BD) or sRGB then it really shouldn't. The animation studios I've worked with tended to stick to sRGB because they were primarily TV focused and the cost of outfitting a studio for wide colour gamuts is not small (getting every artist a wide gamut capable screen, calibration, etc, etc).

While there's a lot of technical speak there that I don't fully understand, I think I understand your point. Basically, unless the title was mastered in above standard BD resolution there isn't likely to be any improvements. Pretty much like how anime mastered in SD doesn't get much of an improvement (and in some cases, looks worse) when upscaled. Am I getting this right?

I'm still very interested in seeing older anime titles restored to 4K. Belladonna looked absolutely stunning on the big screen!

It probably was in this case. I was skeptical of the 4K nature of this, but....

http://animeanime.jp/article/2015/11/23/25803.html

It seems way back last year when they first announced it, they already stated that it's the first Gundam project which was being mastered in 4K. So they probably took HDR into account too for the production. Since the Sunrise studio making Thunderbolt is the same one which worked on Gundam Unicorn, they aren't really being held back by shitty TV standards.

Well, there we go! If it really was mastered in 4K, then it should look pretty great. I'll wait for the comparison between it and the standard BD version. I wonder just how much better it will look?

 

[Lalalandia]

It probably was in this case. I was skeptical of the 4K nature of this, but....

http://animeanime.jp/article/2015/11/23/25803.html

It seems way back last year when they first announced it, they already stated that it's the first Gundam project which was being mastered in 4K. So they probably took HDR into account too for the production. Since the Sunrise studio making Thunderbolt is the same one which worked on Gundam Unicorn, they aren't really being held back by shitty TV standards.

Wow that was a very forward looking decision, are they still scanning drawings? I mean the largest Cintiq is only QHD at the moment. I can't read Japanese but I'll bet the article doesn't dig into that stuff which is a shame as I'm both professionally and personally curious as to what they had to do to get there.

While there's a lot of technical speak there that I don't fully understand, I think I understand your point. Basically, unless the title was mastered in above standard BD resolution there isn't likely to be any improvements. Pretty much like how anime mastered in SD doesn't get much of an improvement (and in some cases, looks worse) when upscaled. Am I getting this right?

Sorry my bad posting from work means I forget that half of my job is garbage acronyms. One of the key changes for 4K is a wider colour gamut (ie more shades of red than in standard TV aka NTSC) this is what all the 'HDR' fuss in TVs is all about. Of course if you want to create in a broader colour gamut you can't do it on standard screens that can't display that gamut (if you're manually inking or drawing this doesn't apply).

Ensuring that 'my green is the same as your green' is a real issue in animation studios, as an example a customer recently showed the issue they were having approving a room for their character. The room was brown cardboard box but the senior person's screen showed the brown with a strong green tint that made the room look gloomy and depressing but the artist's screen had a red tint that made it look warm and welcoming. Who's screen was 'right'? If you decide to master in a very broad colour gamut this gets even more critical as the downsampling to produce a regular TV gamut will exacerbate any discrepencies.

 

[GoldCrusader]

No way I posted that much! 383...that's a huge jump from last season.

 

[Maximilian Kolbe]

It's October 1 in Japan now.

First wave of autumn anime will be:
Bubuki Buranki: Hoshi no Kyojin
Shuumatsu no Izetta
WWW.WORKING!!
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
ViVid Strike!
Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Legend Star
Tiger Mask W


Curious about Shuumatsu no Izetta since Wargaming is one of production commitment, i guess German tanks will keep getting nerf in this show lol.

 

[Yonafunu]

In for Haikyuu

 

[Eumi]

I have absolutely nothing I want to check out other than Working (and continuing Jojo) so hopefully there'll be some pretty good impressions over the next few weeks.

 

[Just T]

Still got a handful of shows to finish up from Summer.

 

[duckroll]

Wow that was a very forward looking decision, are they still scanning drawings? I mean the largest Cintiq is only QHD at the moment. I can't read Japanese but I'll bet the article doesn't dig into that stuff which is a shame as I'm both professionally and personally curious as to what they had to do to get there.

It's not a technical article no, unfortunately. It was just information mentioned by the producer and director at a talk event when they were promoting the project. As far as scanning goes, yeah Sunrise definitely still does. There are some animators who work entirely digitally now, but it's still a huge hurdle for the industry at large. Really wasteful though, especially considering how there's increasingly more digital work required in the composition of entire scenes these days.

If you haven't read this before you'll have a read kick out of reading what Aya Suzuki has to say about the sad state of the Japanese animation industry in terms of not embracing digital pipelines fast enough: http://www.anigamers.com/interviews/animator-aya-suzuki-anime-industry-animenext-2015

This was just last year! Ughhh!

 

[MikeHattsu]

Checking if there's any interest in having an AnimeGAF group trip to Japan next year.

We'll most likely be going sometime in week 12-13 so we can check out AnimeJapan 2017.

Going for 8-12 days. Half in Tokyo and then the rest in the Kansai (Kyoto/Osaka) region.

Estimated budget should be about $1000+flight cost if you want to only join us for the first half in Tokyo and about $2000+flight cost if you want to join in on the whole trip. This depends on what kind of accommodation we'll get.

You will need to confirm if you're going and order your own flight by late October 2016.

I will help out getting us an apartment, hostel and/or hotel for a cheap price.


Some of the things we could be checking out in Tokyo:
AnimeJapan 2017
Ghibli museum
Akihabara
Nakano Broadway
Odaiba (which has the giant Gundam statue and other stuff)
Other things you want to check out

Some of the things we could be checking out in Kansai region:
KyoAni Shop
Nipponbashi
Temples and shrines in Kyoto
Cherry blossom viewing and check out the deer in Nara
Other things you want to check out


Here's pictures from the Fall 2015 K-On GAF Japan trip we did (only the Tokyo part):
https://goo.gl/photos/qse3Yre9mQjqQdWE8

Oh, and we also met up with other people from GAF:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1108613


People who's shown interest:

Line_HTX

firehawk12

Thoraxes

PshycoNinja

Chet Rippo

Lee Chaolan

Theonik

kpjolee

zulux21

PM me here or on Twitter if you're interested.

-

 

[Shard]

I like the OP, it has the simple touch.

 

[Lalalandia]

If you haven't read this before you'll have a read kick out of reading what Aya Suzuki has to say about the sad state of the Japanese animation industry in terms of not embracing digital pipelines fast enough: http://www.anigamers.com/interviews/animator-aya-suzuki-anime-industry-animenext-2015

This was just last year! Ughhh!

Holy hell AoT dynamic city swinging sequences were animated in 3D, printed off and then the character art was drawn on top of them? No wonder they burn through artists like they're going out of fashion, I can see why Aya Suzuki just flat refuses offers of work from studios that are still producing on paper. Thanks for the link it's both sad and fascinating at the same time, I guess everyone involved is too damn scared of both the up-front capital cost and the reduced productivity that comes from bedding down a new production process despite the huge long term gains it offers.

 

[nintendoman58]

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL.

 

[Ascheroth]

Holy hell AoT dynamic city swinging sequences were animated in 3D, printed off and then the character art was drawn on top of them? No wonder they burn through artists like they're going out of fashion, I can see why Aya Suzuki just flat refuses offers of work from studios that are still producing on paper. Thanks for the link it's both sad and fascinating at the same time, I guess everyone involved is too damn scared of both the up-front capital cost and the reduced productivity that comes from bedding down a new production process despite the huge long term gains it offers.

The fuck.

This is about the other guys, the TRIGGER guys who are here, by the way. I know them from Japan, and every time they come to the U.S. they apparently have to buy these marshmallow guns, which we were playing with last night. And I said, “What are you going to do with those?” And they said, “We’re going to play with these marshmallow guns in the studio! We’re gonna shoot marshmallows at the animators!” Stuff like that seriously happens. We’re just a bunch of kids.

Lol Trigger.