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03/04/10(Thu)21:51 No.616218So
glad someone's recommended this on here, as it's really recently
changed my thinking about charisma in animation, something which can
often be so lacking in interesting animation. Tried out the pegbar
pasting technique and got some interesting results, too. Also, if this
is someone's introduction to Otsuka, I can't reccomend his works enough,
and all those that have subsequently been influenced by him, namely the
late Yoshinori Kanada, Shinya Ohira, Shinji Otsuka, Norio Matsumoto,
Ryo Timo, and of course Miyazaki.
It's nice to see animation in
anime recognised for once, instead of it being lumped in the 'limited
animation' category too, which could encompass anything from Evangelion
to Yogi Bear.
Above all for me, the most exciting thing about
watching Otsuka's work is realising that unlike most, in particular
american, animators have a very specific division of labour which
separates effects animation and character animation. It's so much more
exciting to see every element in the scene animated by one person, and
by hand too, letting the power of the drawings and his audacious line
give power to the whole screen. |