Sakuga pt.2 - The Japanese Animation Process in a Nutshell

[ByondRAGE]

I'm becoming a skilled animator for future production of possible anime and other animated creations. This is very helpful information, i have to do all the key animation, in-betweens, and coloring and composition, since i work alone for the time being.

These videos are helping me understand which process i should use, thank you for posting these.

[TehDarkPrince]

@ByondRAGE

If you haven't, I would buy a copy of The Animator's Survival Kit. Don't be put off by the 'western' sensibility of cover and the characters-- animation principles are universal, and the author of the book is arguably the most accomplished and learned among the craft. Keep it up!

[te2rx]

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Check out the new Anipages Daily article (Oct. 23rd, 2011) called "The Anime Production Line"

[AKJY]

Such an awesome presentation / seminar.. but why the hell attendance so small!!! I'll go to these presentations ANYTIME over the economics seminars in my department

[BPrice1A]

The "design sheets" are actually called model sheets and that's how continuity is maintained. If the key animation is right, it's 'on-model' if it's not, it's 'off-model'.

[WyattEpp]

That storyboard pan early on is from Ghost in the Shell, isn't it? When she's fighting the Fuchikoma in the warehouse?

[te2rx]

@WyattEpp Yeah, there was a Japanese edition of the movie that came with Mamoru Oshii's full storyboard in print. I scanned a page of it for this segment, which sort-of connects later on in the panel when I talk about the guy who animated the scene.

[te2rx]

@RebootEDC @TheKidWithTheCrown @rifway22

1. Yes, it's Noein

2. Remember when Divx.com hosted videos? There used to be lots of sakuga-interest downloadables on it. The full clip shows Ryo-Timo's entire part. I imagine it comes from the region-2 (Japanese) DVDs because I don't think this making-of extra is on the region-1 (USA) DVDs.

3. While I've been trained in 2D animation, I'm not an animator professionally. The information presented here is bare-bones basic anyway.

[Reanimator999]

@te2rx

Noein US version has that key animation (Saku-Satsu/pencil test) clips.

[RebootEDC]

The Key animation example... Isn't it Noein?

[te2rx]

@RebootEDC or actually, the first example is Noein, while the final example is Birdy: Decode 2

[TheKidWithTheCrown]

How/where did you acquire the unfinished animation from Noein?

[rifway22]

how do you know all these? are you a pro?

[TerraGamerX]

This is great, I never get enough behind the scenes stuff ^_^ There's so much for me to gain from this kind of info, especially if I wind up working in that area.

[LSDjTutorials]

What happened to part 3? Automatically blocked by YouTube?

[te2rx]

@LSDjTutorials I had to re-upload it due to an error (no sound, oops)