who?

cool history, bro

How about otaking thread.
Asshole or OK guy?
And why?
dicsuss

>>24520952
Guy who rants about fansubbers, that's all you need to know.

Who the hell is Otaking?

People like Otaking are why we have to hide our powerlevels. Fuck him.

OTAKING WA DARE DA!?

who cares

>>24520976
He's more productive than almost anyone on /a/ and he at least makes some good points while putting effort into his work.

Those are my two cents.

>>24520995 Fuck him.

You have to say why you hate him. Dems da rulez

Who the hell is Otaking?

>>24521018
Suck his cock more.
Anyone who rants about fansubbing is already beyond retarded.

Are these "who is Otaking?" posts really real?

I agreed with everything he said in his rant and you're a weeaboo faggot if you disagree

>>24521082
yes I don't know
sounds like a faggot whoever he is

>>24521042
He's a professional translator.

With the biggest ego this side of Jupiter.

>>24521050
Has anyone ever mentioned to you that you are very quick to hurl insults? It's really a bad habit.

It's nothing more than an argument about free shit covered ice cream.

who?

anyone who cares about anime subs beyond "it gets the point across without me having to understand japanese" is goddamn petty and seriously needs to reevaluate his priorities in life, and this comes from somebody who spends the whole day posting on /a/

>>24521106
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYlqLlbix0

Short version:

Paul "Otaking" Johnson is a professional Jap-ENG translator amd the self-styled British Otaking. He made a video on why most fansubs are shit. This made people hate him.
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYlqLlbix0&fmt=18

He also animates and draws. Otaking haters say his work is shit because he is not Japanese and has no business drawing "anime." They also hate his character designs and backgrounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pBdJOwLp40&feature=related&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqR8A8ecKWo&feature=related&fmt=18

in short, possible attention whore but with some talent.

>Who knew that mentioning the name otaking would raise such mixed feelings?
uh... everyone.

>>24521082
Did you make that horrible drawing or did you get it from gaia forums?

Isn't he doing some Doctor Who animu short at the moment?

>>24521246
All that is correct except the talent part, he has none.

>>24521246
I wouldn't even say what he draws is anime.

It's just terrible looking. It's like when an artist draw's something 'anime' style and takes on all the wrong aspects of what anime supposedly is.

>>24521277 Did you make that horrible drawing or did you get it from gaia forums?

It's on an interview he did.
I think it's quite technically accomplished, but then I'm neutral in the war. Hating that is like hating Mikimoto art as it's clearly the same type of chara design.

>>24521300
Funny how you samefag using shitty names, just like in the other thread, nobody cares about your shit.

The guy gets more shit than he deserves. His ego is bigger than it should be, but he still has more talent than almost anyone on /a/.

The only difference between Hox and Otaking is that Otaking actually voices his opinions on things.

>>24521360

here we fucking go again.
NOTE: everyone who doesn't call otaking a fag IS otaking samefagging.

Get a fucking life, man.

>>24521360
>murrrrrrr

SOMEBODY'S doing a Doctor Who animu and it fucking sucks.

this guys art is rendered well but the actual form of the characters looks like crap

>>24521349
>comparing that horrible shit with Mikimoto's work

>>24521315 I wouldn't even say what he draws is anime.
>It's just terrible looking.

Lol. Yeah... really terrible looking (!)
had ur eyes checked recently?

>>24521490
Funny how everyone defending otafag has terrible grammar or writes like no one does normally on /a/.

fucking awful. Anyone on /a/ cn draw better than otaking

>>24521490

That's just a traceover though.

The stylus is mightier than the pen.

Let's not forget how shit he is at details.

>>24521545
Is that really made by this otaking guy or are you trolling?
It looks like a vectorized version of a 12yo fanart

>>24521538 everyone defending otafag has terrible grammar

>Implying /a/ is a haven of perfect grammar
FACEPALM.JPG

>>24521490
his backgrounds are such obvious tracing

look at the characters

>>24521571
nothing special compared with what you normally see at DA or pixiv

>>24521613
what the fucking fuck
that guy must be a troll, he can't be that terrible

>>24521571
That's the stiffest most boring pose I've ever seen.

Uh... photo reference was allowed last I heard.
Ever seen Hoshi no Koe? Anything by Makoto Shinkai?

>>24521035
He wastes precious air by breathing?

>>24521613

Context, mofos. You cherrypicked a single frame from a fast moving action sequence.
Watch the full bit first.

http://www.deviantart.com/download/120520233/EVEN_MORE_ANIMATION_by_MightyOtaking.avi

>>24521663
>Uh... photo reference
>>24521490
>Lol. Yeah... really terrible looking (!)
>had ur eyes checked recently?
obvious samefag is obvious

Why is otaking liked on /m/ and hated on /a/?

>>24521713
Nobody cares. Go away.

ah, the hours he must spend rotoscoping that dalek toy of his

>>24521740
I hate him on /m/ as well.

>>24521761
looks 3D to me

>>24521713
>Context, mofos.
go chocke on a dick samefag

OP here.

So, results are that most people hate otaking. Reason: he is a fag. Correct?
This wasn't such a great debate.

>>24521545
reminds me of this

>>24521740
They're all Otaking samefagging. Nobody really likes him on /m/ either.

>Reason: he is a fag. Correct?
>This wasn't such a great debate.
This is /a/

>>24521663
>Ever seen Hoshi no Koe? Anything by Makoto Shinkai?
Yes, I really enjoy the work of Makoto Shinkai, what does that have to do with this otashit?

I like his position on fan subs hate his position on 80s > All other Animation ever.

>>24521820

photo referenced backgrounds.
The Berserk guy also has a team who travel the world taking photos of castles for him to use in panels.
But for otaking to do it is wrong because he is a fag

>>24521798
There was no debate because the only person defending him would be himself.

>>24520923
sup otaking

>>24521849
Nobody is complaining about referenced backgrounds, all of his work is shitty and you can find better artwork in any random image of pixiv

>>24521840
You've never seen old vhs fansubs from the 80's and 90's, then.

>>24521713
>You cherrypicked a single frame from a fast moving action sequence.
I cherrypicked a single frame from three seconds of the character just standing there and breathing, highlighting the fact that he draws ugly.

Fine, if you want I'll cherrypick some of the motion with all of it's badly drawn in motion blur.

PROTIP OTAKING:
MOTION BLUR GOES ON BOTH SIDES OF WHATEVER IS BLURRING
AND IT ISN'T MADE OF SPIKES

Otafag type faster!

>>24521713
>Otaking
>Cherrypicking
First time I have encountered those words together.

>>24521940
He cherrypicks because he's never had his cherry popped.

A badly drawn character in a picture flooded with detail is still a badly drawn character

Anybody who doesn't agree with 99 % of Otaking's points are complete retards, and are a part of the fansubbing problem.

His stills look good, his animation is bad though.

I agree with some of the things Otaking said about fansubbing (too many untranslated words, notes would be better served in a text file than on screen), disagree with others (I don't need complete localization because I know damn well I'm watching a foreign show). I don't care about karaoke, so whatever.

And some stuff is just stupid, like complaining about putting sign translations on the sign itself: "The english wasn't on the sign in the original!" No shit, Sherlock! You know what else wasn't in the original? THE FUCKING SUBS! You know what WAS in the original? The audience having to read THE SIGN, putting the translation on the sign lets the English audience experience it the same way that the Japanese audience did!

And while older anime does have better (more detailed) still-shots, it also has a hell of a lot less animation. I'd love for more detail in modern works, but I don't think the industry has the budget to support it without sabotaging current animation quality.

Let's bring it to a close. I'm otaking, you're otaking, we're all otaking.
Watch your neighbor closely. They are otaking. Even the children.
The red menace has infiltrated our shores. Obama cannot help us now. Otaking strikes at the heart of our country from within our sacred soil.
Everyone is otaking samefagging apparently.

Ever seen the movie The Thing? We're living it now. Trust no one.

If you read the early letters by Thomas jeferson, you notice him talking about shading. Obvious samefag was obvious. And Bush? Did anyone ever see all those Macross 7 posters in the Whitehouse?

>>24522037
99% of the posts in this thread are yours, otaking, nobody cares about your shit.

>>24522046
>And some stuff is just stupid, like complaining about putting sign translations on the sign itself: "The english wasn't on the sign in the original!" No shit, Sherlock! You know what else wasn't in the original? THE FUCKING SUBS! You know what WAS in the original? The audience having to read THE SIGN, putting the translation on the sign lets the English audience experience it the same way that the Japanese audience did!

This right here is the only thing that bugs me about his sub argument, I agree with the rest but this is just fucking stupid as hell. I don't really give a shit about his hardon for older style animation or his animation itself though.

As I've said before, the guy has some serious talent.

He's just a complete twat and fuses to understand how biased his opinions are.

>>24522055
sup otafag, learn to draw before growing an ego.

>>24522055
You look butthurt, Otaking.

>>24522084
That's just dumb. I understand and accept that subs have been put on afterwards. That's the point of subs.

>>24522091
When he actually produces something worth giving a shit about, then I'll agree that he isn't completely wasting vital resources in keeping himself alive.

I'm not expecting that any time soon, though.

>>24521959 Of course he hates fansubbers, they are making his job harder.

He doesn't translate anime. Novels and games.

It's easy to find his resume and address online on translator websites. I say someone make the sacrifice for all of us and go kill him. I personally think his art is pretty good and his animation leagues above the normal one man fare, but majority rule. If he dies, honorifics and such will remain free from critique and no one will have to look at his art ever again.

>>24521349
>Hating that is like hating Mikimoto art as it's clearly the same type of chara design.

The problem with Otaking's character art isn't the style. It's just that he has NO ANATOMY KNOWLEDGE AT ALL. his drawings only look more decent than the usual shit you see at deviantart because he uses over 9000 color shades.

>>24522176
shut up, otaking

>>24522200
You shut up otaking

>>24522219
GTFO otaking

tl;dr

Dis sum Otaku no Video thread?

>>24522228
Stop samefagging, otaking

There is no such thing as Otaking. It is a myth.

>>24522266

yeah, says you otaking.

>>24522266
There is a person called Paul Johnson, though. He's busy raping eyes with his art.

>>24522301

It's a fucking inbetween. try harder.

>>24522348
That's funny, because he uses that same argument when he mocks modern animation.

The guy really should stick to translating and stay out of the art department.

>>24522358
OH SNAP!

>>24522348
Fine. This here is a keyframe.

>>24522301
He's also a furry? Or is that supposed to be human?

>>24522358
It's an inferiority complex. He knows he'll never be as good as people who do this for a living. He also knows he'll never be as human as the rest of us, his genetic line having split off some time before the simeons....

>>24522348
Sup Otaking.

>>24522303
Yeah, it's so horrible it rapes my eyes.