Gradient hair is done all the time these days, and it usually looks awful. What makes the use of it in Mysterious Girlfriend X different is that it's a combination of gradients and traditionally drawn hair highlights.
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Gradient hair is done all the time these days, and it usually looks awful. What makes the use of it in Mysterious Girlfriend X different is that it's a combination of gradients and traditionally drawn hair highlights.
Ghibli does full hand drawn right? I read somewhere that they let go of their CG department a long time ago.
Youtube/Toei deleted all the proof
chickdigger802
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it's hot shit yo.
Well, I guess that only speaks to how much anime I watch these days. Because I haven't noticed that at all.
Another things that slipped my mind last post was noses. The shadowing of the noses looks all kinds of strange to me. They are obviously trying to give faces more depth with that, but I am not sure if it works for me.
Oh! Another thing I forgot are eyebrows. Those look really thick in this one.
Ghibli mostly animates on twos. They use a lot more frames than most anime but it's still technically limited. And they definitely still use CGI.
Heh, and the original used "Zakenna". Cute.
I wouldn't call it a way to mask cutting corners -- it's more like he sort of started the whole movement of using limited animation in a stylized manner (rooting from a financial necessity, of course) that suited limited animation, eventually leading to entire animation styles being developed around it.
It's been awhile but iirc that should be a carry over from the manga. All the colour pages had that gradient effect on the hair. I don't think gradient hair is that rare nowadays though. The thick lines particularly on the eyes was also another of the features that drew me into the manga. I kind of like the filter because it provides a contrast between those articles of clothing compared to the rest of the outfit.
Well, you said it yourself, it was rooted from financial necessity. That's why I called it cutting corners, though I don't think limited animation is a bad thing necessarily, and Tezuka did a lot of good in how he legitimized limited animation as an animation style. I mean it could have easily ended up like the cheap crap Hanna Barbara made, or even worse.
^WARNING: extremely ugly and apparently racist American cartoon from the '50s.
Jex
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If you support breaking up families and marriages, watch the new Lupin!
Who am I kidding. We all know that animators have no time for such things.
Dragoon En Regalia
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I don't need Jazz when I can have Cobra, all day all night. Who needs sakuga when you could just watch this and produce this kind of sequence forever and ever?
Femmeworth
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Animators have neither time nor money, truly a pitiful existence.
And fish!
but mostly jazz
Jex
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Youtube/Toei deleted all the proof
Toei hates the internet.
Nobody never not needs Jazz! Jazz should be a declared an essential vitamin for your daily life. It's like scientific fact and shit that it makes you live longer and be more awesome.
Hellsing321
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About 10 hours. Prepare your bodies.
Dragoon En Regalia
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There are alternatives that are just as good, nonetheless. And by alternatives, I mean old Lupin III music from the first series, most of which was the fabled Lounge that all young adults desire most.
Oh fuck it.
Dragoon En Regalia
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—In Soviet Russia—
So let's establish something here: S. Watanabe = Jazz, but Jazz ≠ S. Watanabe. And boys love Jizz, silly.
So let's establish something here: S. Watanabe = Jazz, but Jazz ≠ S. Watanabe. And boys love Jizz, silly.
The second and subsequent comings are upon us.
Damn straight.
Release yourself to the Jazz young one. Embrace it.
hosannainexcelsis
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I really dislike the music of the first Lupin III series. It's cheesy and dated, in a bad way.
Jex
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God damn. What a terrible company.
Dragoon En Regalia
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In a good way. I just wish that the original tapes were still around, not merely the SFX-enriched stuff they were forced to put on record. Trust me: the world needs more Charlie Kosei. Charlie Kosei, at the age he is now, should be obligated to sing every manly song ever.
Now you're making me nostalgia for the times from when I used to play in a jazz combo.
Only of young men passionately in love.
hosannainexcelsis
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I have nothing against Charlie Kosei. The Mononoke OP is great!
Not that surprising, since when Bandai Entertainment shut down, they suggested that this was the route that Bandai was going to take in future, where they have English subs on the BDs and just hope that hardcore fans import instead. Gundam AGE and the upcoming picture book OVA for Code Geass also has English subs. Yamato 2199 does too.
Dragoon En Regalia
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—Did you say jazz combo?! Do you know what that means??!!
I wish my school had a jazz combo. McKinney is terribly boring.
Of all the things to remember him for. I'm guessing you didn't like all the Takeo Yamashita, then?
Jex
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Oh, easily. If you can kind of just accept Ponyo as an exercise in beautiful animation with a nonsense storyline then it's a fairly enjoyable watch.
For some people, that's asking quite a lot, which is understandable. You expect more from Miyazaki.
Not after Howl's you don't.
This is a new jazz for me to experience.
Cigarettes and sweat, I am pretty sure of that. Hitokage is lying as usual!
That too, I guess.
I think that the tapes are around actually. The Lupin Series 1 BDs sound pretty good.
Dragoon En Regalia
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IIRC, the actual instrumental tapes are missing or, more likely, were written over to conserve storage (a la Doctor Who). The officially-released album with all of the music on it had a bunch of SFX flittered throughout each track, which is disappointing.
Depends on the amount of Sax there is, but even without sax a good beating of the drum can get me going.
Femmeworth
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But that's not the kind of jazz that will be in Kids on the Slope.
Dragoon En Regalia
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No Sax man here, but Trumpet is fine by me. So what?
I see. I guess they still managed to make a new nice sounding soundmix for the show with such materials since, well, the effects are part of the show. That's pretty lame re: the OST though.
Nakata had a main animator credit tho
As long as something squeals it's all good.
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