Raid-Kaisen lives on! I'm not gonna lose to the senile husks at Toho who don't understand the concept of fair use. If Youtube doesn't work, I'll just do this. If this gets banned as well, I'll upload on Pornhub next.
Thinking back to simpler times, the influence that this single cut has is inconceivable. No one was even thinking about animating in this way until Yutapon created this. Today, I doubt there's a single young animator out there who hasn't studied this frame by frame.
> Chikashi Kubota.
> Does character design for Dragon ball super super hero.
> Disagrees with the usage of CGI in said movie.
> Draws an outrageous scene in the same movie that shows off the appeal of 2D animation and hand-drawn designs.
> Leaves.
Imagine waking up one day and thinking "today I feel like animating a whole rotating landscape with 4 different characters entirely in ones".
I think the reason this cut is so underrated is because stuff like this has been normalized by Yutapon at this point.
@Cenzamv
Yes. I would love to wake up one day with all of Olivier's knowledge and experience etched into my brain, but that's not gonna happen. What I'll actually have to do to get to his level is dedicate hundreds of thousands of hours into perfecting art, but I'm not built like that.
Arifumi Imai really changed his name to "MAPPA" just to be able to animate Levi again. Now that's real dedication.
Thank you so much, kid named "'freelancer' originally named 'Production I.G' but usually named 'WIT Studio' and currently named 'MAPPA'".
In an industry where the working conditions are actively killing douga, shows like The Elusive Samurai pop up once in a while. Perfect clean-up with extreme attention to detail to showcase the key animator's line art in it's full glory. Beautiful!
Thank you SO MUCH for making this. I wasn't expecting much but this is actually near-perfect. Only the super heavy ghosting isn't removed perfectly, but everything else looks so goddamn good. Just look at this Sou Miyazaki cut:
Is "context" really that difficult of a concept to comprehend? We're watching the strongest demon slayer in a death battle against the strongest demon. It's not animated in the same way as Tanjiro vs Inosuke, because, well, "animation trends" of course! Context be damned.
Mark my words, 15 years from now we will look back on this decade of anime and be baffled at its trend of extremely talented and complex animation that... completely sacrifices and nukes readability.
This is one of my top 3 favourite scenes in animation.
IMO at present Weilin's animation is the best that there is and Go's direction elevates it to the peak of the medium.
The only thing Crunchyroll had on their side was the benefit of doubt we were giving them by thinking that they weren't provided the un-ghosted version. In the funniest turn of events this seemingly harmless post just completely annihilated that.
#Release_JJK_without_ghosting
The aesthetic here is so good. the line art and shading reminds me a lot of strange fake. Episode 13 and the Niinuma sequence from 14 share the top spot for my favourite style in JJK yet, but if this episode manages to look like this for the most part it'll be my new fav.
Kosuke Kato is undoubtedly JJK season 2's ace taking both quality and quantity into account. All of his sequences have been extremely well polished, likely a result of him drawing most of the genga.
Animated by Masami Goto, this scene from Cowboy Bebop's movie is the best animated aerial combat sequence I've ever watched, and one of the best works of animation in general. He's acknowledged by Ichiro Itano himself as an artist who has mastered the Itano Circus.
The Elusive Samurai
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is a very enjoyable return to form with my favourite storyboards so far. The whole episode felt like a Rorschach test with incomprehensible bodies warping to eventually make sense inside my brain; This cut is like nothing I've ever seen before.🧵
Going frame-by-frame through Vincent's genga I finally noticed that Mahogara didn't just yeet himself from the airplane to the pool for no reason; Sukuna swings the wing of the plane at him.
Incredible sequence, similar to his Tengen v Gyutaro cuts. So much planning went into every single one of Himejima's moves- the way he wraps the chains around his hand to let the centripetal force freely spin and deflect all the attacks; Abe is a star. A master. A monster.
I would like to add a very underrated artist to this list- Bo Wen Liang. Works regularly with Hiromatsu Shuu and is my favourite DOP, both in the anime and Dhongua industry.
Top 5 DoP ( Directors of Photography ) in Anime Industry Part 2.
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6) Akane Fushihara : her usage of colors and its contrasts is very appealing.
Demon Slayer episode went about as you'd expect a finale episode from this team to go. Few things excite me as much as watching every department within Ufotable going 100% in unison to produce cinema. Masterpiece episode, easy top 3 for the show. 🧵
Thinking back to simpler times, the influence that this single cut has is inconceivable. No one was even thinking about animating in this way until Yutapon created this. Today, I doubt there's a single young animator out there who hasn't studied this frame by frame.
In the last episode of a completely broken production, after storyboarding 4 episodes and directing 2 along with the second ED, coming hot on the heels of animating on 3 episodes in a row, Gosso decides he wants baby + spring roll animation with complex fish eye perspectives.
This artist's character designs feel like they're custom made for my personal tastes. I wish the official designs looked like this, even though it wouldn't fly with most blue lock fans.
Miso's storyboard + Onsen's animation = the most mind-numbingly complex ideas that's executed with such precision that calling it the peak of the medium would be an understatement. How do you come up with this, and even then, how do you follow up? It's ridiculous.
Aah yes, "Genga". Vincent will complete every single drawing of an extremely fluid cut and the individual frames will still be so detailed that they look like they were corrected by the most talented Sakkans in the industry. It is unknown to us as to how he achieves this feat.
Very weird choice to zoom in on these two cuts like this. It's intentional too, as seen from the frame borders in the LO. It would be a very easy change in the Blu ray, but the problem is that since this is intentional it might not be considered a "fix".
This hinamatsuri episode cLeArS most of solo leveling's action.
Solo leveling S2 needs Araki+Takeuchi duo for every fight because no one else is built for melee combat action.
That Solo Leveling episode clears most of JJK S2's action
JJK s3 needs a dedicated Action Director or it's gonna be real bad, Gosso isn't built for the jjk action
I wonder if today's JJK episode will be like the spiritual successor to black clover
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. Different production conditions, but I wouldn't mind a similar result.
Unwavering ambition even in atrocious working conditions, KA by Gosso:
He is simply the best. Just one of the ideas in here would be enough to make a whole episode feel special, but he does it for every single cut. Each drawing is intentional and beautifully walks the line between what's easily understood by the viewer and that which is surreal.
jjk s2ep17 storyboard. (Nothing here is canon from the manga) Sincere thanks to everyone who signed on to finish the storyboard if you happen to be reading this.
The actual most underrated sakuga scene in CSM (You probably thought it was gonna be K1ro first, which says something).
This is by Daisuke Shibukawa. Incredible background animation combined with one of the best hand-drawn chainsaw-mans (CGI only in the last 2 cuts).
Breaking news: Taking inspiration from Yutapon is now illegal. 70% of web-gen animators in great dismay as they now have to rebuild their styles from scratch.
JJK's new PV looks extraordinary. In this video I talk about the entire timeline of the progression of young animators and directors in the anime industry and why Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya arc is game-changing.
The kind of stuff Kosuke Kato is saying in his recent tweets is very scary. He's completely disregarding his health for the sake of working in a collapsed production. It's extremely disheartening to see such an amazing artist go through something so awful.
Been a while since I cried because of how beautiful the animation is. The bounciness in Fern's dress and the overall attention to detail is mesmerizing. Masterful work by MYOUN.
Yosuke Yajima might be back for today's episode, not just because Shibuya's production is so dependent on him that there can't be 2 consecutive episodes without his input, but also because he's a huge Toji simp (he's just like me fr, but with immense talent).
The amount of detail in every single drawing, while having an insane sense of depth and volume on the background and characters, while also rotating all of the above... How much time did he spend on this one cut?!