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Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
This episode is almost exactly like the prologue in the VN.
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This episode is almost exactly like the prologue in the VN.
I just put up the Bahamut OT, hope it doesn't suck!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=906749
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=906749
Things which have to be outsourced in any production no matter what:
- In-between animation
- Finishing
- Background art
Those are the main things which even if a studio does a ton of it internally, there's just too much work to not outsource. For everything else, the answer is "it depends".
What exactly do you mean by finishing? Post production stuff?
Edit:Mistake on my part.
No it doesn't depend on the studio, because when I'm not excluding the fact that some studios have background art staff internally. Ufotable does too. But it's never enough. The amount of art you need to produce would require the output of a dedicated art studio. That's why that background art studios are for. So you can have internal artists doing the important parts and taking the lead, but you'll have to outsource the majority of work to a background studio anyway.
Finishing is basically the final clean-up and coloring of all animation frames. It's a shitload of work so you'll also outsource whenever possible just to have stuff done in a same amount of time. Lol.
Truly a hero among men.
Neat, will update the streaming schedule later.
I started and got distracted by the translation of megane-kun as four-eyes.
Yea I screwed up reading up your post and realized that right after I posted. Ufotable does have a sizable number of background artists but they have to outsource stuff to Easter as well.
So wouldn't post production (such as CGI and digital effects) be a fourth category that is mostly outsourced as well?
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Saw Madoka Rebellion. Full thoughts later but...
..wat
...bruh
..wat
...bruh
PshycoNinja
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Watamote 10
There were a few good jokes and some good Haruhi references peppered throughout the episode. That being said this show is just depressing at this point. Really making me wonder what the point is, if there is one.
Oh my God.....
This guy is just the embodiment of AnimeGAF. It's like they read one of our OT's and were like "oh this should be fun".
Now I am curious.
There were a few good jokes and some good Haruhi references peppered throughout the episode. That being said this show is just depressing at this point. Really making me wonder what the point is, if there is one.
Oh my God.....
This guy is just the embodiment of AnimeGAF. It's like they read one of our OT's and were like "oh this should be fun".
Now I am curious.
We need the equivalent of Rinlaugh.gif from DEEN's anime ASAPWell, there are a number of first person shots, but one in particular really takes the cake:
There are a number of 'off' factors about this moment which all add together to give me a sense of general unease.
- Firstly, there's the extremely 'anime' movements that Rin partakes in during this sequence. This goes hand in hand with her 'tsun' reactions earlier. It's all part of the fetishisation of her character.
- There's the noticeable change in music towards a more wistful tone. I can't really speak for how 'earned' this is, but it gives the sequence a bizarre romantic undercurrent out of literally nowhere.
- Then there's the use of first person perspective from the character of Archer, a person with very little (so far) in the way of real personality, a blank slate for the viewer to easily project themselves on. Are we looking through Archers eyes, or are we looking through our own eyes at Rin as she looks into ours? You can't understand why these feels as creepy as all the shots in the first episode of the Idolm@ster ?
Heck, Archer is even an amnesiac, a classical player/reader surrogate figure!
Btw eps 0 was pretty great but seeing they had no interest to trim the fat I'm not so looking forward to first 3 day adaptation lol
But Shirou summon Saber already, so maybe not so slow?
NamikazeBurst
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Oh, okay. Thanks. I am pretty sure I remember the two mage families, and they are probably the fathers you are talking about (Tokiomi and Kiritsugu)
CG, digital effects, and composite falls increasingly under the "it depends" category these days. For most studios the answer would still be yes, because not every studio has full digital departments who can handle the entire workload. But I think more and more studios are realizing the importance of this and have been expanding their departments.
We've also seen the advent of more full CG studios so that's also pretty interesting. Like, if a production co-credits Orange for example, and they handle all the CG internally for that show, it wouldn't really be considered outsourcing would it? Ufotable also handles pretty much all the composite and digital work in-house because they have a really strong digital department. They might outsource some stuff if they really need to, but that would be an exception, not a norm.
Obviously there are exceptions to everything if we keep looking, but as a general guide, at least off the top of my head, those are the main categories which no anime studio in Japan can do without outsourcing at all, simply because it's impractical and there's no real downside to it.
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People laughing at that DEEN gif need to watch this show. It's the first episode and already there are so many shots with characters off-model. The action sequences are cheap as fuck.
The whole thing is just a mess.
Fuck. I was hoping this would be something like my B-rate guilty pleasure show.
People laughing at that DEEN gif need to watch this show. It's the first episode and already there are so many shots with characters off-model. The action sequences are cheap as fuck.
The whole thing is just a mess.
Fate/Stay Night [Unlimited Blade Works]: Episode 0
That's probably the best adaptation of the FSN prologue I've could have hoped for. UFOtable has really focused on what works in the VN and refined it to probably the best it could ever be. The problems intrinsic to the story are still going to be there, but they've definitely created something far more enjoyable than the VN was. It was a gorgeous, well paced and just generally very well done adaptation. Let's see if they can handle Shriou coming in and fucking stuff up.
A couple things I did notice and want to point out. UFOtable's CG cars are still hilariously bad. It's definitely funny to see these undefiled boxes on wheels amidst the otherwise gorgeous art. The other thing is how UFOtable really created a nice melancholic tone throughout the whole episode that the VN really didn't have. Even the slice of life scenes had a nice sense of foreboding and dread. It's a nice change from the VN's boring almost too saccharine take on those scenes. The color, lighting and music used created so much wonderful atmosphere that probably improved those scenes 10 fold from the original VN. Really hoping they keep that up and don't revert tone once Shriou comes in.
That's probably the best adaptation of the FSN prologue I've could have hoped for. UFOtable has really focused on what works in the VN and refined it to probably the best it could ever be. The problems intrinsic to the story are still going to be there, but they've definitely created something far more enjoyable than the VN was. It was a gorgeous, well paced and just generally very well done adaptation. Let's see if they can handle Shriou coming in and fucking stuff up.
A couple things I did notice and want to point out. UFOtable's CG cars are still hilariously bad. It's definitely funny to see these undefiled boxes on wheels amidst the otherwise gorgeous art. The other thing is how UFOtable really created a nice melancholic tone throughout the whole episode that the VN really didn't have. Even the slice of life scenes had a nice sense of foreboding and dread. It's a nice change from the VN's boring almost too saccharine take on those scenes. The color, lighting and music used created so much wonderful atmosphere that probably improved those scenes 10 fold from the original VN. Really hoping they keep that up and don't revert tone once Shriou comes in.
I think the point is zetsuboushita
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As someone who knows only the basics of this series, I thought it was a pretty good first episode. Nice and pretty (besides the character art, what's wrong with your face Rin?), fight was cool, music was good, laid down the concepts well enough (I understood all the terminology and stuff fine.)
But this sexual tension between Rin and A Cha is ridiculous is this going to go on the entire series
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OP IS STILL DATABASE DATABASE DENIERS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
And the ED is still Akatsuki focused, I'm sure Dresden is super happy.
Kind of a confusing episode with all the jumping around (The Opening? The Ending? What's going oooooooooooon), and the show looks worse now, and it wasn't pretty before, but not really enough to be flipping tables over. Some things look worse, a lot of things look mostly the same.
Not really a bad first episode, just a confusingly directed one. Hope this improves.
Sword Art Online II 14
The best part of this episode is how Kirito doesn't introduce Asuna as his girlfriend, making Sinon's indoctrination into the harem more painful.
I don't even want to mention the syringe part.
I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying 01
I wish I could screencap the whole episode but this will do.
Might check out that Joker show too.
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I like this dude he is cool
As someone who knows only the basics of this series, I thought it was a pretty good first episode. Nice and pretty (besides the character art, what's wrong with your face Rin?), fight was cool, music was good, laid down the concepts well enough (I understood all the terminology and stuff fine.)
But this sexual tension between Rin and A Cha is ridiculous is this going to go on the entire series
Log Horizon S2 01
OP IS STILL DATABASE DATABASE DENIERS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
And the ED is still Akatsuki focused, I'm sure Dresden is super happy.
Kind of a confusing episode with all the jumping around (The Opening? The Ending? What's going oooooooooooon), and the show looks worse now, and it wasn't pretty before, but not really enough to be flipping tables over. Some things look worse, a lot of things look mostly the same.
Not really a bad first episode, just a confusingly directed one. Hope this improves.
Sword Art Online II 14
The best part of this episode is how Kirito doesn't introduce Asuna as his girlfriend, making Sinon's indoctrination into the harem more painful.
I don't even want to mention the syringe part.
I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying 01
I wish I could screencap the whole episode but this will do.
Might check out that Joker show too.
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Oh, don't forget the scenes where still shots are being passed off as action, that was myh favorite.
AquaWateria
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No reason to be surprised it's adapted by Toei. So yeah it's definitely gonna look cheap.
R_thanatos
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give him 2 years and it'll be possible
PshycoNinja
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Well isn't that uplifting......
hosannainexcelsis
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https://twitter.com/Yuyucow/status/518531127561445376
Many people are complaining about the shape of Rin's face in the new UBW anime. That's 100% Hisayuki Tabata's style.
And yes, the show has multiple character designers. Tabata was in charge of Rin and was the AD for ep0, so his style is very easy to notice.
Nah, Archer is an older brother figure of sorts to the gal.
rrvv
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Best thing that coming out from madoka franchise.
I always found the movies is definition of "careful what you wish for ". Pretty sure there is sizeable fan base that demand "everyone have nice school life together " ending. Well you do get what you wish for. But in slightly twisted way
Mahouka flashbacks.
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I think he's just pointing out why it's like that.
No nose is still generally considered fairly bad.
the overall artstyle of Yuyushiki is much more conducive to that kind of chara design then something pretending to be more serious like Fate/*
hosannainexcelsis
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I'm just trying to give some explanation since I've seen a lot of people comment on the subject and this tweet came up. People are free to like what they like.
I like Deen a lot, but they arent the greatest studio.
It honestly doesnt matter. Both are stand alone stories and can be viewed separately in any order.
Higurashi is kind of supposed to have that grotesque horrible look to the characters though. Deen got that part absolutely right.
Thats Rin's whole claim to fame. If she DOESNT do that people would be disappointed!
It looks five million times worse merged with Type Moon faces, though.
I finished Gurren Lagann today. It was pretty enjoyable, but I think I liked Kill la Kill more. It's partially because I waited so long on Gurren Lagann and it was so popular but I had basically everything spoiled for me ahead of time.
I think some of the shine wears off if you already know. Also
All in all, it was fun and I'm glad I watched it. Now I'm moving on to finish Attack on Titan.
Specifically, I knew Kamina would die, and I knew their power would eventually increase to the point where there'd be mecha hurling entire galaxies at each other as weapons.
all the characters you grow to like either die or have a person they're in love with die and they end up living alone the rest of their lives. It kind of bummed me out.
All in all, it was fun and I'm glad I watched it. Now I'm moving on to finish Attack on Titan.
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