...people in this group might know a few of the details. Specifically, does anyone know what the most common 2d animation programs some of the studios use?
Thanks,...
Pretty much every animation made today, especially North American ones. Disney still has the outliners and inbetweeners using onion skin and a light board. Then the frames are scanned in, the lines cl...
...production when one is sending most of the gruntwork overseas. You can't just send a storyboard and key animation to Korea and, unsupervised**, expect a finished product in a few days (**usually,...
Japanese animation and comics are actually much more commercial than American animation and comics in many ways. Look at the sheer level of merchandise that exists for practically every series. I can&...
I think the advent of digital animation etc. has made everything look 'cleaner' - less pencil lines, and very different character designs.
I watched Galient episode 1 (looks vaguely inte...
The NA animation industry calls this 'runaway production,' when most animation production shifted to the Far East. I wonder how far the Japanese industry would come to that, as cheaper forei...
...r (well, old Dexter anyway) have a far greater universal appeal than anime does. Remember - NOT ALL JAPANESE ANIMATION IS BETTER THAN ALL WESTERN ANIMATION.
Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, however, is THE S...
...039;. It's clear that the Animatrix series is keeping the faith for Matrix fans everywhere. The squiddy animation is incredible, and it's a thrill to finally see a wider, panoramic view of t...
...and 'Reign' will start its run. I have to say that the ads for the show have not impressed me. The animation looks...unattractive...
...wasn't the 'Love Tropical Deluxe' opening song, and the ending didn't include the ending animation from the first five DVDs. What was particularly odd was that the opening animatio...
Try asking on rec.arts.animation, as that is the group that covers American and non-Japanese cartoons. I think you'll be more likely to turn up a lead there.
...over here. Just from looking at the quality of the official site for the anime ( http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Animation/yokohama/ ) leads me to suspect that Sony may have further plans up their sleeve...
Perhaps you mean OVAs, meaning 'Original Video Animation,' or straight-to- video releases (not televised or played in theaters first).
The real interesting part is that Pixar will set up their own traditional animation facility. Uh...I guess I will have to move back to Silicon Valley to get a job....^_^;
Even wilder news: SO DOES...
The quality of animation of Stardust Memories (aka 0083) is arguably better than CCA and probably ranks up there with some of the flashiest mecha battles in Gundam history, since 0083 was released a f...
So. at one point, Kazu decides to start a computer; from the animation, I would guess that he says 'It has to launch first,' since Narue has a vision of the computer extruding rockets and le...
...rd, but high-quality weird. Is that really a Japanese production? It reminds me of shorts from a festival of animation that used to tour around the country back in the '90s (and maybe still does?...
A picture of it appears in one of forums at forums.toonzone.net. Look under the genreal animation forums (the one above the anime forum), and look for the topic about last night's TV's Funho...
...ents for all of those (and not necessarily in other, older anime titles; some of the themes in these precede animation). Just like how anything that can be done in the name of music has been done alre...
... comix. ;p
(C'mon, you know there's a double standard there, just like between live-action and animation. Many in the literary world still do not like Neil Gaiman winning their literary ...
...Have only watched episode 1 so far, downloading ep 2 and 3 right now. Anyway.. I'm quite impressed. The animation, especially in the fight sequences, is vastly superior to the old show, and it se...
...nizations - particularly the one known as 'Black Orchid', or 'B-O'. (I kid you not.) The animation for th...
... long-running plot threads, and I'm really impressed with the voice acting in particular (the character animation is amazingly detailed, too).
Full Metal Alchemist - I'm not that interes...
...re mostly just from one series.
Also if anyone knows of any collections of character profiles (like what animation artists use to draw the characters) for any of the popular anime characters....
... 21:53, in article
This would be a good start:
The Anime Companion: What's Japanese in Japanese Animation? Gilles Poitras. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1880656531.
<http://www.stonebri...
...ell, except that one girl...)
There were re-issues of Gunbuster just a couple of years ago, with all-new animation and everything, FYI.
What, MTV or Comedy Central? And even then, it would be ...
...to be a perfectly viewable animation series.
I know it has come under massive criticism on here. But I'll take the minority view in saying that I enjoyed it greatly. Why?
1) It's ...
...e movie version of a well-established cult series. 'Cowboy Bebop' began life as an anime (Japanese animation) television series in 1998. Fans will be glad to see the usual cast of animated c...
...ice actors. So a lot of these actors (especially John Dimaggio) you'll here in a lot of common USA-made animation.
- CMiB
PPGWorld.com - http://www.ppgworld.com (fun for Powerpuff fans)...
...anga, 'Tsuri Baka Nisshi', aka 'Tsuri Baka', has finally been made into an anime by Toei Animation, and is now showing on TV Asahi in Japan. The manga is quite popular and has been...
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