Are we getting any Pixar anime movie adaptations or something?

>Hiromi Wakabayashi is MALE

Seriously? What the fuck...Damn you Japan and your silly naming system.

>his love for American shows like Glee and Gossip Girl. Hiromi is also a huge fan of American comics!

There you go, all the fags who kept saying P&S is not a US cartoon ripoff.

>>46669456
we're just as bad without our genderless names.

I wish Gainax would buy Pixar.

>>46669482
everyone already knew Yoshinari loved Dexter's Lab and PPG and shit

>I am a HUGE fan of the Japanese animation studio, GAINAX.
>Lists Eva, FLCL, and TTGL as his favorites
>mfw

>>46669537
You suddenly wore a space suit?

>lso got an explanation about the big blow-up during Gurren Lagann production in which Takami Akai stepped down from his position Gainax.

Hiromi explained, “…the fans were upset at the quality of animation, but it was completely intentional on the part of Imaishi (series director). He wanted to parody the common occurance, in many productions of the past, to have huge dips in quality during the course of a shows tv production.” That is a great tidbit to know!

I assumed it had to be intentional, because a studio like Gainax could have easily executed Episode 4 just as the rest.

So, this Hiromi guy is a reverse weeaboo... how do you call those?

>No Otonari/Goripon
>Implying I give a SHIT

>>46669553
Osamu Kobayashi is also Imaishi's bro. They worked together on some anime in the past.

And if Imaishi aimed for that effect, then he couldn't have picked a better director.

>>46669553

So kaminaclose.jpg was...intentional?

GAINAX

>>46669553
but other Kobayashi works like that 4C short End of the World looked... pretty much exactly the same?

>>46669537
the other Pixar guy mentions only a bunch of old works that most of the people in those photos weren't even involved with, so technically the first guy is actually a little more accurate in the shows he listed. I can only imagine how odd it must have been for people like Sushio and Hiromi Wakabayashi to be approached by some Pixar employee telling them "OH MAN I LOVED OTAKU NO VIDEO AND WINGS OF HONNEAMISE YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME"

What the hell they all look so poor, I thought Gainax would scrub up better.

>>46669844
What little money they make go back to buying hookers and blow for Imaishi.

>>46669811
not see what is awkward about that, they are there representing the studio.

>>46669642
That's the point. Kobayashi appears to follow a strict stylistic formula to whatever it is he's working on, and for such a cleanly composed series as TTGL, his presence is necessary for the effect Wakabayashi claimed they worked for. And it worked really well.

>>46669909
maybe because they had absolutely nothing to do with those shows?

>>46669951
yeah but I recall Takami Akai back in 2007 defending that episode by saying that it was actually well animated, not that the people didn't realize that it was meant to be "intentionally bad".

and considering it had people like Seiya Numata working on it, it makes more sense.

>>46669954
yeah I get that, but even if you didn't work on it you still take pride on what your company has done.

Gainax Pixar team up in the future?

>>46670004
I would think he was talking to the average guy who watched the episode, not the really die-hard animation fans. And he was presumably pissed off then, too.

I feel that it was roughly a similar situation as to what happened in the past when animators tried to change things up only to be met with severe criticisms. The Kobayashi ep would have worked better with episode 6, really, rather than an important episode like 4 was.

And in addition, the Kobayashi ep was just so jarring to normal viewers that they reacted like that. Kobayashi's ep on PSG actually didn't gain that much criticism, and it's mostly due to the experimental flavor of the show.

>>46670116
yes but why would he be pissed off if, as Wakabayshi said, the episode was intentionally terrible? Why would they hire talented people like Seiya Numata specifically to do animation for episode 4, which, according to him, was very poorly animated on purpose?

>>46670182
>>46670116
basically I have trouble imagining Imaishi approaching Kobayashi and telling him "hey I need someone with a horrible, shitty and unlikable style that looks like the team ran out of budget and hired a mongoloid child to direct a Gurren episode for me, and well... :)"

>>46670182
>>46670435

I guess we have to take what they're both saying with a grain of salt. Hiring Kobayashi himself, to me, is already some kind of a hint as to what the staff wanted with the episode, but I don't think Imaishi necessarily told him to "do a shitty job" but more like to "do the episode his way". While Akai seems like he was merely defending the choices Gainax made.

Numata seems like a casting choice made according to his personal style. He would be a good fit for the Kobayashi ep. And hell, even Hisashi Mori was on episode 4, iirc.

Wow Gainax staff sure is ugly.

>>46670597
>I don't think Imaishi necessarily told him to "do a shitty job" but more like to "do the episode his way"
well see, ep 4 was very Kobayashi-style. if Imaishi's intention was to make the episode look like shit, then by bringing in Kobayashi he was indirectly calling his friend's style a steaming pile of rat corpses smeared in toxic feces... and I find that very hard to believe since Imaishi loves weird shit like that. Remember how Big Building was his favorite Parallel Works 2 short?

Gainax employees are known for making shit up on the spot to westerners anyway... Hiroyuki Yamaga has given two totally different answers to the same question during the very same Q&A session. So I'll just go with the explanation that seems more logical.

>>46670734
Now that's where I say Wakabayashi wasn't exactly telling the truth, which is why I said their statements should be taken with a grain of salt. Imaishi and Kobayashi are friends, and they know each of their styles, and Imaishi liking oddball stuff only adds to that.

And yeah, I won't really take whatever they say at face value.

Nice. Pretty cool photos.
It would be awesome if they worked together.

>>46669523
>implying Pixar is not worth x200 times Gainax.

Bobby Rubio's blog is pretty cool BTW.

>Akemi Hayashi going on an overseas field trip

What the fuck happened to Ghost Rhapsody?

what the fuck are they doing on vacation when they should be working on PSG S2

>>46669619
I interpreted it that the studio was going to use different styles for different episodes, rather than doing it for parody, but back when it was airing I thought it was pretty obvious that the style of the episode was deliberate.

Didn't Pixar buy Disney?

Fascinating.

>>46671050
second, I do not buy their shit for them to be jacking around

I refuse to believe the whole "Kobayashi's episode was deliberatedly bad" because they would have said so in the Style.fm interviews and they didn't.

>>46670734

It's also really dumb because Imaishi and Kobayashi are still friends, as evidenced by Kobayashi being in PanSto. I'm sure something got misintepreted or lost in translation. Maybe the idea was to deliberatedly get a style switch and whoever was writing the article understood that as "deliberatedly bad" instead of just a style switch.

>>46671124
It would be interesting if they bought Gainax.
>unlimited funds

>>46670662
Animators tend to be deformed madmen.

>>46671174
also they wouldn't have decided to hire Seiya Numata of all people for THAT ONE EPISODE if it was meant to be "bad". why waste a great Kanada-school animator in a Kanada-school show for an episode that you want to turn out as shitty as possible?

what DID they say in the style.fm interviews about it anyway?

The mouth movements in the QUALITY episode were actually animated to match the speech.

>>46671124
Yes, pixar bought disney.

>>46671164
I thought that "jacking around" basically described Gainax's creative process.

>>46671124

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>>46671203
>>46671174
I just don't want people to start linking this every time someone defends Osamu Kobayashi because god dammit.

>>46671242

It just said that it was one of the most Kanada-ish episode of the show and that Kobayashi is the president of the Kanada Fan Club.

>>46671203
Yeah, people really seem to have trouble wrapping their heads around the notion of switching styles up. You can tell it's something they wanted to do more of, which is pretty evident in PSG.

Is it just me or does it look like Bobby and Sushio are getting on really well?

It just makes me wish we got more exciting animation on TV over here.

>>46671555
The most creative thing in American TV cartoons I've seen in the past couple years is probably Adventure Time. I'm not sure if that's good or bad (opinions on the show seem to be pretty mixed) but I wonder what the reverse weeaboos at Gainax think of it.

that kumiko is what I need

Howdy /a/, my name is Hiromi Wakabayashi.

I'm a 27 year old Japanese Toonaholic (Cartoon fan for you foreigners). I draw cartoons and comics on my tablet, and spend my days perfecting my art and playing superior American games. (Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty)

I train with my 1911 every day, this superior weapon can shoot straight through steel because it kicks ass, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth. I earned my gun license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day.

I speak English fluently, both the Midwestern and the East Coast accents, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about American history and their Constitution, which I follow 100%

When I get my American visa, I am moving to New York to attend a prestigious High School to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become an animator for Nickelodeon or a game designer!

I own several cowboy outfits, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to America, so I can fit in easier. I keep cool to my elders and seniors and speak English as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond.

Wish me luck in America!

>>46669589

>>46671656

Oh yeah, there's quite a few shows I like, Adventure TIme being one. I dunno though, just on a technical level there seems to be a big difference in the amount of effort that goes into even some of the better American TV animation like Adventure Time vs. something like PSG.

>>46671656
I like Superjail more because the animation is more scribbly and loose ;_;

but Adventure Time is genuinely funnier, Superjail is more "heh this shit is crazy" but I actually laughed out loud at Adventure Time more than once

>>46671713
This would be funnier with Yoh Yoshinari.

>>46671761
also I watched MLP for a bit and it was okay but it's not something I would defend to the death just an okay tweened flash cartoon that I like because I'm a fag who likes girly shit as long as it's upbeat and not melodramatic

Wow, reading those blogs. People at pixar have a high powerlevel. You'd think they'd be casuals like /co/ is.

>>46671884
well duh they're actual animators who can recognize real skill

people who go on /co/ but never on /a/ seem like the type of people who would say "ALL ANIME EVER IS TRASH AND LOOKS THE SAME AND RUNS AT 1 FRAME PER HOUR except Death Note which is amazing :):):)"

>>46671884

You'd be surprised. A lot of studio animators probably know more about anime than you might think. On the other hand, every indie animator I've ever met either actively hates anime or doesn't know anything about it.

>>46672060
"mind game is the only good anime actually wait no it's not even anime at all" - bill plympton