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That one scene where the budget increase's so much it's comical
Charro Negro (Legend Quest/Las Leyendas)
With the rest of the movie using subpar flash animation this moment here feels like the equivalent to Vincent Chansard animating a scene for a show like Total Drama or Johnny Test (I love Legend Quest but its animation is definitely a weak point)
James Baxter animating Gumball (Gumball)
Honestly any time James Baxter shows up in a Cartoon Network show its gonna kinda stand out (in a good way)
It’s not a scene, but Spiral in the game X-Men Children of the Atom, her animation is so much better than every other character for some reason. Her idle stance alone is so detailed in animation and probably has more frames most other characters
Spiral is incredible because it’s not like she has significantly more frames, but the looping of the hands is timed perfectly and most other characters are just breathing for their idles. Omega Red and Ice Man are the only others that had even a modicum of the same level of attention.
I don't know the terminology, but it's just a little wrist spin they use in some Chinese martial arts, usually before a palm strike. I've seen it in a lot of movies and Aang does it before he launches Ozai in Avatar.
If I remember correctly, the reason the animation is like this in this episode only was because this episode was supposed to be the first episode/ pilot but they couldn’t release it until the end of the season.
Song makes me WANT to litter and pollute and pave a forest for a mall. I'm not GONNA but Tim Curry makes it sound naughty instead of lame and terrible like it is, yanno what I'm saying?
In a lot of shows you'd be surprised how much rotoscoping is actually there, especially in anime. It's just not as obvious because the characters are already fairly proportioned.
Nah, MAPPA uses rotoscoping in all their anime. There a couple different scenes in jujutsu kaisen season 3 that are rotoscoped, like when Yuji and Hakari first meet
Smiling friend always felt like the adult version of tawog, it's the way they're both constantly mixing in different animation techniques to make the world feel more vibrant. I love the crazy modge podge of animation they have.
That one impact frame convinced me that this dude that's been aura farming for several episodes straight was actually as big of a deal S the story told us he was
It’s funny cause his animated introduction almost mirrors his comic introduction, where people thought he was overrated and kinda goofy with argal’s skull, only for fans to pull a complete 180 when he actually starts beating ass
So many scenes of characters flying are exactly that, just static character models being dragged across a background that might have some of its own motion. If the animators are feeling fancy the model might also change size to suggest that theyre getting closer or farther away.
If you listen to JV’s commentary (I think it was an anniversary showing of it) he said “I wanted to make an incredible opening scene so you would be greatly disappointed in the rest of the movie”).
Jokes on him though, the entire movie is wonderfully animated. They even have a scene where everything is animated into different styles.
Ahsoka kicking ass on Mandalore is a top 10 Star Wars moment for me. That, and her and Rex escaping the rest of the 501st. Both are animated so dynamically and energetically, it's like an entirely different show than the early seasons.
That's not a matter of budget, but rather the march of technology. Clone Wars had Lucas throwing around his FuckYou money around as much as he liked, as it was his pet project. It may look janky now, but by 2008 standards it was miles ahead of any other CGI show on television, and it only got better from there.
Now Rebels is where budgetary differences became noticeable, because Disney was rather more conservative with their money. Where did the budget increase in season two? Vader's cape. The cloth simulation for that thing was hugely expensive.
Legends of Tomorrow, Season 3 Finale. After not letting the CGI character do anything all season, we see where all the budget went. A 30 foot tall stuff animal / norse god of war (it’s a long story) has a kung fu battle with a 25 foot tall time demon.
Its a lot of fun. Season 1 is a little rough, but Season 2 really hits its stride with letting over the top character actors do their thing as villains and under standing “we are a show about superheroes on a time ship, lets get weird”.
Its also one of the only shows I have scene where they respect and don’t nerf a speedster.
My favorite episode is “Guest Starring John Noble”. Where one of the characters is in the background trying to binge Lord of the Ring, and they realize the Time Demon sounds just like John Noble. So travel back in time to have him record lines to trick his followers…..damn this show was so good
Reminds me of a similar one form invincible where mark tells conquest to stop beating his ass. Hair flowing and more frames. Lol idk why they picked that one part for that to happen
Lol I don’t think it shows the hand in such finesse for it, but the season 3 moment when he learns he’s being manipulated and starts to cry while using Steal is funnier than it had any right to be
Mob Psycho 100 typically uses minimalist animation and "gimmick" animations (seriously you should check out the "paint on glass" animation used a lot of the spirits) to great effect, but when it's boss fight time? Oh. My. Goodness.
Particularly the fights against Mogami, Toichiro (pictured), and golden dimple.
Blue lock season 2's final showdown between Rin and Sae leading up to Isagi's luck goal
The entire rest of the season preceeding this one scene was almost a literal slideshow with voice acting. I'm not exaggerating when I say that a teenager with powerpoint and adobe after effects could have probably done a similar job
I was moreso talking about the Rin vs Sae showdown that happened right before this. Couldn't find an appropriate gif so I just used the isagi one instead because it's also fairly high quality animation
https://giphy.com/gifs/fXnKhlE3IJuFmJNEwS
Minnie the Moocher is a classic example of this, a Betty Boop short that goes into a fully rotoscoped Cab Calloway performance as a dancing ghost.
Frieren, near the end of season 1 there are a few episodes where there are obvious cost cutting measures specifically around food and desert eating sequences, but then the second test of the first mage trials begins, and suddenly Frieren is collapsing time and space in a mirror match up against herself... it's the most comical budget difference I've ever witnessed. Going from a power point slide show for filler content, into the cataclysmic event that warps time and space while frieren fights herself.
God, that fight was so good. 24 or so episodes of lazer beam zoltraak and then suddenly it's apocalypse war as 1000 years of magic clashes with unbelievable mystery magic, and a spell that Frieren "hadn't been forced to use in 80 years"
While I do like the show, Invincible is notorious for its inconsistent animation quality to the point where several scenes outright are just pngs being dragged across the screen. Some people defend it by saying that Invincible does the same thing a lot of anime do where more budget is spent on important fight scenes while less is given to ordinary moments, but Invincible mundane scenes still look quite bad compared to anime that do that, imo.
Anyway, as I mentioned the animation quality does increase for important fights, such as Mark's two fights with Conquest to the point it became a small meme that Conquest automatically raises the animation quality whenever he's on screen.
Shadow vs Mewtwo 2, Death Battle. Made especially funny since the original was one of the most infamously bad episodes on the show and especially impressive since it was animated by one guy, it took him 8 months
Every scene would make your brain overload with "Wow" its actually insane how well animated every scene is including the villain shuffling the cards scene
Owl House has 2 scenes where the animation quality goes from typical kids show to smooth like a Disney movie.
One of the scenes is a fight with the antagonist, where a beloved character ends up being fatally wounded.
The other is a lesbian kiss
Most of the budget for Monty Python and the Holy Grail ended up going into Tim the Enchanter's pyrotechnics, and as is expected of a film like this, they serve not to advance the plot, but rather to give the character some flavor by depicting him as almost literally playing with fire.
In the climax of The Magic Voyage, several scenes, mainly with Christopher Columbus, are animated much more fluidly and detailed than the rest of the film.
Isn’t in the Light Novel & is anime original. Improve the story by showcasing the destruction of the kingdom? To really showcase that the protagonist is evil. Nah. Let’s have a Disney Princess song at the end of the final episode.
https://giphy.com/gifs/J69CdUSYmZXj2
The transformation scenes in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. It goes from cheap chibi flash-style animation to traditional anime style with the iconic “repent, motherfucker!” at the end
I was underwhelmed during the Invincible Conquest fight up until that one shot of Mark being thrown back into the city where they bust out the tracking shot as he crashes through a building. Looked so awesome on top of me being like "finally the backup animators have arrived"
That's just Invincible's style. They'll be dragging jpegs about for about 9 episodes and then spend the majority of their time on like three shots in the finale.
https://giphy.com/gifs/nj7XeQRzlg0yk
The Ted show is amazing! I heard there was only 2 seasons because it was so expensive to make. When I got to the Dungeons and Dragons episode, I saw where most of that budget went (and I loved it, any Dropout fans should watch that episode I won’t spoil why!)
This single fight in One Punch Man Season 3, where the animators suddenly remembered they were, in fact, animators, only to return to the most embarassing animations in the anime industry for the rest of the season.
Joshiraku. One character comments how the premise of the show sounds boring since it's just girls sitting around talking, to which another replies that the animators are working very hard to make it interesting, while having significantly higher animation quality than the rest of the show.
https://giphy.com/gifs/W3JW0tZVKGuM79QEU2
This fight scene between Jabber and Zanka in the Trash Beast Arc of Gachiakuta (look it up on YouTube if you haven’t seen it and wanna see peak)
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