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[Haly]

Henceforth AnimeGAF shall be known as Anime;GAF.

 

[Brazil]

Henceforth AnimeGAF shall be known as Anime;GAF.

Animes;GAF.

 

[RurouniZel]

Henceforth AnimeGAF shall be known as Anime;GAF.

Animu;GAF

Edit: N/M, Brazil's is better.

 

[Haly]

∞:Nine.

 

[Articalys]

∞:Nine.

This reminds me -- I wonder why the song title "SUPER∞STREAM" is read as "super super stream".

 

[Steroyd]

RIP Cajun penguin... I miss you already. ;_;

Toriko x One Piece part 2...wait part 2!?

*Readies barf bag*

*closes eyes*

*clicks play*

*opens eyes*

... it... was drawn properly, holy shit!

And

Spoiler

Zebra

was foreshadowed a bit more as well which is funny because this is the One Piece part of the hour.

Zetman - 02

And here I thought there was going to a bit more cat and mouse.

 

[Femmeworth]

Animes;GAF.

Anime is already plural.

 

[Regulus Tera]

People hating on Swarm of the Century? I hate you darkside.

 

[InfiniteNine]

I wasn't here then and you don't have the ability: duckroll Hype Machine.

It overrides these sorts of things.

I will eat your children non-believer. Just like I took duckrolls future children from him when I crushed his berries.

 

[Narag]

People hating on Swarm of the Century? I hate you darkside.

I'm on team regulus now.

 

[Brazil]

Anime is already plural.

I didn't think it was supposed to make sense.

 

[Ultimadrago]

I didn't think it was supposed to make sense.

Indeed, it doesn't, as it means

Spoiler

nothing

...wait, a sec! That means we mean

Spoiler

nothing

!

Why are we here?

What are words?

What am I fighting for?

 

[Brazil]

Indeed, it doesn't, as it means

Spoiler

nothing

...wait, a sec! That means we mean

Spoiler

nothing

!

Why are we here?

What are words?

What am I fighting for?

We must search for the Penguindrum.

 

[Jex]

I think Shaft has really shitty management and get into very onerous contracts with production committees. Like, for Bakemono and Madoka, I'm sure Aniplex is rolling in the money but Shaft probably doesn't see a whole lot of that.

KyoAni, for some reason, has better relationships with their distributors.

Right, it's not exactly mysterious. GAINAX got into a lot of trouble with their Nadia contract, for example.

 

[ponpo]

Teehee.

 

[madp]

Smile Precure 10:

So this was an Akane episode, and like Envelope said, it was pretty much a copy/paste of a plot from Heartcatch. Didn't stop it from being good, though, mostly thanks to Akane's Osaka tomboy spirit and some really incredible moments from Wolfrun.

The Akanbe fight was one of the best yet, with some spurts of great animation culminating in this positively Homer Simpson-esque Wolfrun expression:

Unlike Heartcatch's "take over the restaurant for a day" episode, this episode had a surprisingly-depressing rendition of the Smile theme song played softly on some kind of wooden flute while a montage of Akane's struggles played. I wasn't expecting shots like this in my colorful, upbeat show:

But, of course, Akane makes it through fabulously.

dat animation.

Spoiler

Honey, I Shrunk the Precure

is going to be friggin' amazing next week.

 

[Andrew J.]

Anime is already plural.

Which is why it's silly and fun to add an S at the end anyway!

Also, it's a Metal Gear Solid reference. "Just like one of my Japanese animes!"

 

[Jex]

But with CG cars you don't even need to draw it. You just place it in the scene at any angle you need. And at this point they probably don't even need to create the CG car, they already have it in their stock library.

Speaking of SHAFT...

And if they need to animate traffic, they can just copy paste the cars and apply different hues to the textures!

Truly the future of anime.

Except SHAFT doesn't even bother changing the hues

 

[Ultimadrago]

http://i.imgur.com/vt1Xp.gif

Teehee.

Okay, I lol'd.

Forgive me, chickdigger (at least it looks like chickdigger's old avatar).

 

[Jex]

Cajun stop making my hate for the fact that there isn't more awesome futuristic or balls out crazy racing anime increase!

Mechanical animation is clearly too hard. I see no evidence to the contrary!

 

[Femmeworth]

What the shit is this? Damn it, darkside!

 

[madp]

It's still better than that fucking dancing Warcraft orc I've been constantly subjected to for months.

 

[jman2050]

I think it's time we took actual measures to stymie the Pony invasion.

Be careful men, we may have a war on our hands.

 

[Jex]

What the shit is this? Damn it, darkside!

Game over man. Game over.

 

[Ultimadrago]

I think it's time we took actual measures to stymie the Pony invasion.

Be careful men, we may have a war on our hands.

But some of them are my Nichijou Bros...

I will have to be Switzerland the one that wonders if carpet bombing deals with carpets in bombs for this one.

Dammit MP, you indirectly cursed me!

 

[Jex]

I hate all of you ;_;

Ah, now that's the AnimeGAF spirit.

 

[Noirulus]

What the shit is this? Damn it, darkside!

Hmm.. why would MLP fans want to pit their lovable ponies against each other?

 

[Ultimadrago]

Hmm.. why would MLP fans want to pit their lovable ponies against each other?

Ponies is anime, therefore it must have its power levels settled!

 

[chickdigger802]

oh shit. forgot about precure!

oh shit. Cajunator dropped the penguin for ahoge cat!

D:

Teehee.

Did yayoi get yuriyuried?

 

[PdotMichael]

But some of them are my Nichijou Bros...

I will have to be Switzerland the one that wonders if carpet bombing deals with carpets in bombs for this one.

The Swiss are awesome!

 

[Narag]

Hmm.. why would MLP fans want to pit their lovable ponies against each other?

The unicorn > pegasi > dirt pony hierarchy doesn't establish itself.

 

[Jex]

On the bright-side if MAPPA turns out to be a success; we won't haft to mourn MADHOUSE loss any more, unless they end up being a another MANGLOBE. (lol)

C'mon now, only ex-Sunrise studios suffer that fate.

 

[RurouniZel]

I think it's time we took actual measures to stymie the Pony invasion.

Be careful men, we may have a war on our hands.

You have my bow.

 

[Femmeworth]

Ponies is anime, therefore it must have its power levels settled!

Who would win in a fight, Twilight Sparkle or Goku?

 

[Narag]

Who would win in a fight, Twilight Sparkle or Goku?

There goes my day.

 

[jman2050]

Who would win in a fight, Twilight Sparkle or Goku?

Accelerator

 

[Jex]

Who would win in a fight, Twilight Sparkle or Goku?

Er. Goku.

Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature

Tezuka created furries.

 

[Envelope]

Teehee.

Why would you do that, it almost makes we want to replace Medaka with a Precure to make up for your cruelty to Peace.

 

[BluWacky]

C'mon now, only ex-Sunrise studios suffer that fate.

But what of Bee Train and Xebec, both spinoffs from Production IG (itself a spinoff of Tatsunoko Pro)?

 

[Ultimadrago]

The Swiss are awesome!
http://www.abload.de/img/carbetbomba2ub0.gif

I look forward to our debates on knotted vs. tufted carpets in relation to overall damage output!

Who would win in a fight, Twilight Sparkle or Goku?

Cross-series power arguments go nowhere, you know this!

...But probably, Goku. He has Senzu beans and cooler friends.
And I am not partial to ponies, therefore I am bias towards their strength!

 

[Jex]

rip DTL. your trolling will be missed

Trolling?

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

True Tears needed to sell better because of that awesome ending.

Fixxxedd.

 

[Jex]

Ahoge has always been around. Its only now that AnimeGaf has decided to notice it. I blame Medaka.

I blame bad character designers, myself.

I want these since they're the best Bakemonogatari figures I've seen.

It is pretty neat that they took the designs from the ED and made them actual figures.

 

[ponpo]

This is a vn not anime, but people might be interested in the new Makoto Shinkai Minori OP if it wasn't linked already.

 

[Hellsing321]

Trolling?

Hes a joke character. Hes just very committed to the joke.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Trolling?

You see, when a "shounenbro" reaches a certain level of "Shounen Spirit", their thoughts and opinions are of a status so bold and unapologetic in their preternatural (according to some of AnimeGaf) disposition that it is not uncommon for it to be teased as a type of "trolling."

ex. "Giving Guilty Crown a 10/10"

 

[Jex]

I DON'T RECOGNISE YOU ANYMORE

Sometimes faces change.

 

[Mandoric]

Speaking of SHAFT...


Except SHAFT doesn't even bother changing the hues

Is it more or less effort t texture the episode number on?

 

[duckroll]

From my blissful ignorance I wonder; even then wouldn't it still be a role very dependent on previously established guidelines compared to their live-action counterpart? I mean, all the material has to be created beforehand, be it a composite with bi-dimensional elements or pure CGI three-dimensional environment to work with, so much of the scenes have to be devised on early stages for the director of photography to have enough material to finalize its work on. For it, having this person in question to contribute efficiently and early on its input and actively with the rest of the staff to avoid having to rework on specific parts, to achieve an intended result.

That leaves a necessary previous (and more obvious) consensus from said staff (directors, story-boarders, animation directors, etc.) on how the scene has to be tackled from the beginning, in a much more evident way than a equal live-action professional for a similar work (with real actors) would do. Seems like more restricted in general, with less freedom and inspiration. I think that what raito-kun says could hint more to a blurring of the lines between those specific staff positions because of the previous background the mentioned people have, that helps them to do it in that way.

I think what you say here is very true, and it has been something I have been pointing out for a while now. I feel that with a production like Fate/Zero it is a lot more of a team effort than something which can be easily distilled down to the responsibility of one person, which is why some people feel uncomfortable at calling it a sakuga anime.

For many of the scenes in the series which stand out a lot, you cannot really say that one particular person is responsible for the majority of the sequence like you can with animated scenes by Nakamura or Matsumoto. Instead it would be a mix of careful storyboarding and direction, in some cases possibly with consultation with the photography team, good modeling, animation, and effects for a CG element - like for example Berserker, and the final composite being able to put everything together well as originally planned.

Now, having said that, there is a very talented and relatively new animator at Ufotable who is directly responsible for the "action animation" of Berserker in particular. His name is Masayuki Kunihiro. He was responsible for planning the action animation for Berserker in episode 5, as well as the aerial action animation in episode 14. For ep14 he is actually credited as the Special Effects Director for the episode.

But can we consider this sakuga in the traditional sense? I do not believe so, because I feel this is similar to how Takeshi Koike was responsible for being the action animation design in the Gungrave videogame. They tapped on his experience as a traditional animator to help plan poses and keyframing for how the characters would move and attack, and used that to create the realtime 3D animation for the game.

In this case, Kunihiro clearly plans out the Berserker animation sequences in terms of how he would pose, move, and attack, as well as the missile circus motions and so on, but none of that reflected as actual animation frames in the end product. Another comparison would be Imaishi's involved in Black Rock Shooter, where he and Akira Amemiya both storyboarded and directed the CG sequences, which are then fully realized by the CG and photography team.

I think this new hybrid form of anime is pretty exciting, and while it is very different from how traditional anime is made, it is still something refreshing and new, and represents a new generation of visual artists.

 

[RurouniZel]

But what of Bee Train and Xebec, both spinoffs from Production IG (itself a spinoff of Tatsunoko Pro)?

I've always wondered but been too lazy to find out; what does the I.G. in Production I.G stand for?