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Summer 2012 Anime |OT2| Of Suspended Anime Due To Olympics
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Jex
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I don't know, I see a worrying trend in terms of the CG. Now Shaft cant even animated beach balls traditionally. What poor, innocent object will CG claim next? I supposed any object that has to move along a plane, or rotate or that we have to see multiple angles of could be taken next.
In all fairness, traditionally animating a beachball would not make much difference and isnt worth the hassle.
I mean, we all thought that Brains Base's hands were washed of Penguindrum, so is there any possibility that this project was set in motion at Ikuhara's insistence? Can the concept of a "pet project" even still exist when the industry is in so poor a shape that a single high-budget failure can ruin a studio?
It's too mysterious. Nothing adds up.
NRTyuki Rendezvous - 06
The faux-quoting of Debussy's The Sunken Cathedral (or La cathédrale engloutie if you will) at the end was a nice touch. Same key, same tremolo patterns, same planing, but basically just instrumental contrafactum. Pretty nice touch in regards to the scene, IMO.
The faux-quoting of Debussy's The Sunken Cathedral (or La cathédrale engloutie if you will) at the end was a nice touch. Same key, same tremolo patterns, same planing, but basically just instrumental contrafactum. Pretty nice touch in regards to the scene, IMO.
Know what else isn't worth the hassle? Sakura petals, robots, and cars. /wrist
Jex
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Well I know that I'm going to have to watch at least one episode of this. The premise doesn't seem particularly promising but KyoAni have surprised me before. At the very least it gives their effects animators a chance to go crazy (no pun intended) and really deliver some visual spectacle.
Judging from that trailer alone it will also dive their cinematographers/directors of photography a chance to do some more 'imitation'. I assume many of you have seen the first Haruhi episode that successfully imitates the the visual style of a bad student film? Well, in the trailer above you can clearly see a number of sequences that imitate that styles used by other anime works. There's a number of generic action shots, camera movements, reveals and so on that all seem to be lifted from other works. They clearly aren't KyoAni's traditional style at all. I imagine the staff will be having a lot of fun using those kinds of techniques because they don't ever get the chance do deploy them during your average KyoAni series.
CG sports balls. I can see it now.
Well, its more lucrative than Brain Base's other recent shows outside of Natsume isn't it? 5k a volume, and weren't they being sold at a higher than normal premium?
Jex
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This is the kind of thinking that singles the end of traditional animation.
I suddenly really hope that Kingdom has a beach episode.
RKB has got you covered.
PdotMichael
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the girl on the right side is an original character of the anime. She has a pillow in her bag so that she can sleep everywhere
Jex
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I assume, considering it's length, that it was also more expensive. I assume they were looking for something that was going to be a lot more popular.
Ultimadrago
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Which of these is the childhood friend destined for tragedy and heartbreak?
To be honest, that sounds adorable.
Ultimadrago
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Imagine the volleyball spiking possibilities
Yeah, this was an easy excuse to have this posted again!
Jex
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In reality that seems a lot more likely than an anime but I really hope that you're wrong like you were wrong about Macross: Do you Remember Love.
PdotMichael
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The bad girl is this time the "childhood friend".
Her name is Satone Shichimiya or Sophia Ring SP Saturn VII
I dunno, site has no mention of a studio and copyright to Ikuhara only.
Also I know the reason Macross was censored probably.
Jex
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It was a bad idea to try and explain this without using images. Here's some choice shots, you'll see how they don't really jive with KyoAni's usual style. Apparently this girls imagination looks a lot like an anime:
Where as this very clearly is:
At least it's going to be interesting to look at.
I want to murder that name.
Crash Station
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The non-kyoani shots look better.
That's how I feel about stuff I did in middle school as well.
One day a few years ago, I just gathered up all of my emo poetry from high school into a big pile and burned it. Felt good.
Femmeworth
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It's a shame that you can't appreciate it. Unlike a Shyamalan production, it didn't take itself seriously.
Hopefully you prefer irrelevance. Relevance is overrated.
Hmmmm.
Jex
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Well they are supposed to be more visually dynamic and interesting than the real world.
Now your various spirit guides and possibly ancestors can read them.
Well sure, but either way they must have made some money on it if they are moving forward with another project. Assuming it is an anime at least...and involves Brain Base...You know I guess I'm being presumptuous here since we know nothing about this yet.
Maybe now they can use their powers to warn my younger self against getting involved with a couple of bad girlfriends!
Shows that have sold even less than Penguindrum sometimes receive follow-up OVAs (Milky Holmes comes to mind for some reason), so I suppose that a short production can profit even when the base to which it's targeted is itself very small. I can't pretend to understand how any of this works.
what? which part of it makes you think that?
Jex
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I think that's a combination of two things.
- The exaggerated colours.
- The lighting. The lighting is really, really flat in a number of shots and everything is illuminated equally which makes everything look really unnatural because that's not what the world looks like.
Sounds like something that someone irrelevant would say.
Jex
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I've never finished any KEY anime! Not even Angel Beats, because I don't force myself to watch garbage like the rest of you lot!
I seem to remember you watching AKB 0048.
He didn't have to force himself, though.
Jex
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At least the character designs look nice, which is more than I can say for a lot of other works.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Assuming Texhnolyze doesn't kill me, I'll order the first Utena set. I'm almost sure to end up sticking with it and buying the rest of the series, but this way I can at least pretend that I'm not spending a bunch of money.
:lol
Jex
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It's cute that you still have hope.
Jex
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I can't imagine there are many people out there who have claimed that Gundam 00 S2 made them a better art critic.
If you sit down with any classic Gundam work directed by Tomino you'll soon see that they have far, far, far worse pacing.
Buy it all at once. Its worth it and you're going to buy it anyway.
Jex
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Penguin Drum wasn't really that long ago.
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