Animation Analysis

[trail hearth]

Animation is really cool, therefore we should discuss! Anything from techniques to storytelling to just plain beauty, please drop in your two sense here!

I honestly made this thread just so I can talk about Mobile Suit Gundam and the scars of war but anything is appreciated

[polar light]

I love lots of different animations - but I especially love when it feels "organic", or "weighty".

https://tenor.com/view/devilman-crybaby-devilman-akira-fudo-devilman-meme-devilman-crybaby-meme-gif-24425802

I'm not sure if Devilman Crybaby particularly is like that, but I do love how it's done. It feels very emotional, the story obviously, but the visual art as well. so visceral!

I also love frames/moments like this in animation

it's like art within the art

"inbetween frames"

or in animation when they make "low budget frames"/details like this from JoJo part 4 anime

cool animation fact's: animation is awesome

[slender citrus]

I love Devilman Crybaby but I admit this kind of art with "unhuman" proportions feels weird to me

Like, I understand what's the point of this and I appreciate it for that, but it's simply not to my taste

[polar light]

why so?

[slender citrus]

Dunno, I guess I prefer when it's more "real-like" ?

[polar light]

do you not like pop team epic either?

https://tenor.com/view/disco-haramasukoi-eisai-dance-epic-gif-24598477

[slender citrus]

I LOVE Pop Team Epic

[polar light]

and yet!

[slender citrus]

I think what I don't enjoy is some weird proportions for characters designed with a "realistic" setting?

Like the animation technique of specifically deforming characters to convey some meaning

I get the meaning that's conveyed

I just don't really enjoy the feeling the technique gives me

[polar light]

I see

[slender citrus]

It doesn't stop me from watching it, so whatever

[polar light]

waiting for the duke msg talk to drop

[trail hearth]

I have it written but it's got tons of spoilers

It's also long asf

Might fuck around and make a video essay

||https://docs.google.com/document/d/121y6KyhHJQKvTWw6NuoXZDoAjxfddTGKQQlZ3Q-jZtE/edit||

This is the doc of what I have written but I'll probably add more

Still haven't even watched victory Gundam lmao

That being said MASSIVE spoilers for Universal Century timeline

[polar light]

I'll be checking it in the following 48hs -- this was meant for the text hehe

[polar light]

do itt

[trail hearth]

Epic

It'll take so long tho

That'll be my one hour long Magnum opus and then I fall off the face of the earth

[polar light]

those types are so cool

there is one for like thief or dishonored

[trail hearth]

Actually it'll be this and an analysis of turn A Gundam as an afrofuturist masterpiece

That'll take a really long time tho

[polar light]

let it cook

great works take great times

[trail hearth]

I need to rewatch zeta

It's so good but the actual animes are so long

[spark dust]

this one has similar exaggerated animation techniques and it works amazingly. the director uses it a lot in all his works
https://youtu.be/ItlDaDfLBn8?si=VzsuCikNoCEymVeI

[polar light]

Finished reading it, great writing, thank you Duke. I had not known Gundam from that perspective.

[trail hearth]

Thank you

[full ruin]

Have yall watched 2020 Japan Sinks, from the same creators of Devilman Crybaby? it was fr the only anime that i scream cried

[trail hearth]

Just watched Sonny Boy, really really good

But I think it’ll take another watch through to get all my thoughts organized

However, right now it feels like I have the core of it, the seed from which the rest of it will flow

[trail hearth]

Okay, I got the seed written down

SPOILERS FOR JJK CH 120/SHIBUYA ARC
The ending especially but really the whole show at the time of writing reminds me of ||Nanami’s parting words to Yuji||; “You’ve got it from here.” In this there’s a whole host of connotations and effects in the source material, but there’s one core I want to bring up. It’s the assertion of and damnation to the future. That such future will exist and that it will be dealt with not by those who kept a firm hand on their shoulders, but the miscreants, bottom feeders, the children at the feet of giants.
Such was a curse for yuji, and it is the same for our protagonists, but where Sonny Boy differs is that it focuses on the freedom of damnation and not the tragedy. If all is lost what left is there to lose? As Nagara said, the world can’t be changed but the die can be cast. The future is here and we have nowhere to run, which is, as life often is, cause for great joy and sorrow, damnation both the catalyst and outcome of incomprehensible freedom!

https://www.nautiljon.com/images/anime/00/59/sonny_boy_10295.webp

I really do recommend this show, I watched it on Hulu but it’s probably other places too

[steel sky]

these are great, I wanna find more now

I think sometimes in bigger productions these sorts of frames get tasked to the lower level artists with less creative input, with just the keyframes at either end of the bit as the references

we've probably all heard that in a videoessay or 20 at some point or another

tbbbbhhh