Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5366

On November 11 2015 10:06 Sentenal wrote:
UBW was visual trickery, NGNL was visual trickery for people with bad taste, and SAO looked really nice, but IDK how it looks any better than OPM.

On November 11 2015 18:55 Emnjay808 wrote:
Danmachi felt high budget to me.

Also since we're nearing the end of the year, Danmachi prolly best anime of the year imo.

On November 11 2015 20:51 Sterlymobile wrote:
Whats the difference?

On November 11 2015 20:51 Sterlymobile wrote:
Whats the difference?

On November 11 2015 21:47 Numy wrote:
These things aren't just limited to anime or animation though but also pretty important pieces of live action. You'll find well done live action often utilizes colours very carefully either though camera filters or just general use throughout the film. Movies with heavy browns/greys etc will give off the perspective of a far bleaker pensive atmosphere. This you could say all falls under "art/artstyle".

Choreography is something that really shines in action sequences both in animation and live action. Unfortunately it's also one of the most overlooked and underutilized portion of these sequences. If you're a marvel fan I'm sure you felt the difference between Captain America 2 and Avengers 2. One had fluid action sequences where you could easily tell what was going on while the other was a mess of shaky cam. Anime is like that too. Lots of "cool" action sequences in TV anime are often rather poorly choreographed/animated where you can hardly tell what's going on in the sequence. I can't even think of a well done TV anime aside from FMA:B. Again just go watch Sword of a Stranger :D

On November 11 2015 23:03 Numy wrote:
It's been too long since I watched it. I remember it being visually beautiful but that's just standard P.A Works. If you want another high budget production that isn't seasonal check out Gundam Unicorn. Man that's one beautifully done anime. Pity I don't really watch enough Gundam to appreciate it.

On November 11 2015 19:54 BurningSera wrote:
It is more about all A class studio/project have more or less the same 'good/high' budget in compared to many of the average budget anime series, while you need to keep in mind that the average salary for each job/role in the industry is pretty much standardised. The key thing is the project management apsect ie many studio blew their budget too hard for the first few episodes or first half of the season (mainly caused by the use of CGI), you will very likely to see that in 20+ episodes series (i honestly dont keep this budget related stuff in mind so the biggest example i remember was Macross F rofl). I think Bahamut is an example too, iirc they started out great, midway the visuals dropped, because they wanted to focus the rest of their resources into the last few episodes, and it was merely a 12 episodes series.

Series like UBW which could maintain high visual quality throughout the series: 1) obviously it is an A class project itself 2) the project management is well done on using their resources 3) also alot of talented people in the team, i remember from some interview on NHK they hired more 'cheaper paid' fresh grads or something to work on the project, more hands = better in the end of day of drawing/optimizing the visuals which leads to 4) I think UBW project is more of a team assembled just to make UBW (as in there are some permanent staffs but majority of the team consists of contractors/cheap fresh grads). But even so you still see some distorted facials of the characters in UBW from time to time lol.

OPM wise i dont think it should be classified as high budget because you can see they try to save money on many scenes as much as possible, iirc the first 4 episodes look good but nothing impressive (visual wise) and then it was the 5th episode who blew people mind, which is the sign of good project management (because team which holds 'high' budget would usually blow alot money on the first few episodes). I mean it is from Madhouse in the end of day (wont be very high budget but ok-ish).

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On November 12 2015 00:08 Kipsate wrote:
Kanata no Kyokai gets a lot of hate(some of it deserving I guess but it wasn't THAT BAD) but its fighting scenes were top notch, Kyoani Mahou Shoujo when.

Kyoani always has great animation/artwork.

On November 12 2015 00:18 Sentenal wrote:

Unicorn does look great. Its an example of a Gundam where the high production values actually show. Its an OVA though, so I don't really group them together with TV anime. If you have a high budget OVA or movie that doesn't look great, then something terribly wrong is happening.