Today I learned that normal people DON'T live with a constant stream of cinematic anime ass light flares.
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Has the artist ever been identified? This was made in 2002 at the latest (still WWF, not WWE) so I'm guessing this was actually an artist from Japan or an unknown American artist with a better grasp of manga aesthetics than every single Amerimanga artist of that era.
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Unironically this. Not only is this the single funniest thing the Joker has ever done, it's also the best characterization I've ever seen of the Clown Prince of Crime, where he will always prioritize going for the laugh over saving his own life. twitter.com/Av3rage_Us3r/s
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Alright, let's take a closer look at some of these pencil tests from Akira! Look at this amazing tracking shot! That tunnel! I bet a lot of folks assume this was 3D CGI but NOPE. It was hand drawn!
#Akira #Akira30 #アキラ #PencilTest #2DAnimation #Sakuga
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This is the most detailed yet concise explanation of why Japanese animator salaries always remain low no matter how much the industry grows. Straight from Toshio Okada, cofounder and former president of Gainax and a legend in the field. Must watch if you care about this issue.
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In this video, anime producer Toshio Okada speaks about production committees and how they harm the anime creation process.
We've subtitled the video to spread awareness.
Hey kids! Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie came out in 1994 and "it goes hard." You should watch it!
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#TheLastOfUs is aiming to break the infamous "video game curse" for adaptations.
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Hiroyuki Okiura (沖浦啓之) is the kind of animator who animates so perfectly that he often gets accused of rotoscoping, but actual animators know he obvopusly doesn't because it looks TOO GOOD to be traced from a video.
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If you sincerely believe that animation is cinema, or if you just love cinema, please find some way to watch Mind Game (2004), directed by Masaaki Yuasa.
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Crunchyroll is eliminating free ad-supported streaming starting with the spring 2022 season. Those who want to watch new or continuing series will need to subscribe. animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-2
36 years and 7 months after it's release, Mariya Takeuchi's 'Plastic Love' finally gets an official music video and cracks the top 10 singles chart for the first time in Japan!
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#竹内まりや
「プラスティック・ラブ」のMusic Video フル・サイズ・バージョンを公開
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11月3日(水)に再リリースされた完全限定生産盤12インチ・シングルは11月15日付のオリコン週間シングルランキングで5位を記録
TOP100入りは実に36年7か月ぶり
本作初のTOP10入り
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11月3日(水)に再リリースされた完全限定生産盤12インチ・シングルは11月15日付のオリコン週間シングルランキングで5位を記録
TOP100入りは実に36年7か月ぶり
本作初のTOP10入り
North American starter Pokemon
(which one will you choose?)
Chirin no Suzu (チリンの鈴) aka Ringing Bell. A Sanrio movie from 1978, based on a book by Takashi Yanase, creator of Anpanman. I say this with zero irony, this is one of the most harrowing gut-wrenching films I've ever seen. And not just for shock value. It goes DEEP.
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What is the best movie you've ever seen that is about character's descent into madness?
Most times the real life cyberpunk dystopia we live in is much lamer than what we were promised in the 80s. But sometimes, just sometimes it exceeds even the wildest futurist dreams.
I was asked (very nicely!) to explain why SF4 Sakura has better anim/key poses than SF5 Sakura. Here's a quick infographic. Basically the SF4 one looks stronger cos she's really turning into that punch. She's throwing from the hips. SFV is like the fist is pulling her forward!
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Something like this should be addressed by @SugarPunchDW or @Richmond_Lee regarding animation techniques. twitter.com/peace_one/stat…
Friendly reminder. Since 2007, the Kengan Asura artist has been working on the most amazing looking indie fighting game ever made.
My god imagine being awesome enough to animate this without computers. twitter.com/cv_579s/status
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I'm glad that the create-a-character allows for really unhinged stuff with no regard for balance and all regard for fun and self expression. That's how it ought to be. twitter.com/renorenoaray/s
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Elon Musk is one of the founders of OpenAI, creators of DALL·E. They poured a billion dollars into pushing us towards a future of automated art built off the backs of countless artists who will never benefit from it.
It's pretty cool that the line between 2D and 3D animation is so blurred now. And it's not cos of fancy filters and shaders automating the look, but because people have figured out how to control 3d frame by frame as if it were a drawing!
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Here's the legendary opening sequence from Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door animated by Hiroyuki Okiura (沖浦啓之) and Tetsuya Nishio (西尾鉄也). This is the epitome of realistic traditional animation that WASNT rotoscoped.
Wanna know why #Sonic looks so terrible in the Hollywood adaptation? It's because people in positions of power & influence genuinely think the new look is a better, more globally appealing design than the classic Sonic that we know and love. This is a thread on why that's dumb✌️
The original Nier came out in 2010, at the height of the "Japanese games are bad!" meme in the Anglosphere. I'm so glad that awkward (and frankly xenophobic) phase of games discourse is over! twitter.com/dialacina/stat
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Here is a RAVISHING painting of Devilman by the legendary Yoshitaka Amano.
#Devilman #DevilmanCrybaby #天野喜孝
When people say that "AI art will empower artists" this is what they mean. This tech takes individualistic voices honed by a lifetime of real experiences and reduces them to a party trick. All expression is just grist for the mill of "content." Is this the future you want?
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Tonight we’re breaking down the final shot of #DevilmanCrybaby. Why are there two moons? What is their significance?
The answer lies in the beautiful symmetry with which the whole show is composed. To figure out the ending, we must go back to the beginning ...
(SPOILERS AHEAD)
Western Samurai movies: We must preserve our honor above all else. Honor is everything (#honor)
Japanese Samurai Movies:
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Any fighting game where a Tom & Jerry gag can organically emerge and fully play out during actual gameplay is an objectively good fighting game.
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Pocari isn't bottled water. It's actually an electrolyte beverage inspired by a Japanese man who got diarrhea in Mexico, was given a soda to rehydrate and then saw a doctor horking down a bag of straight IV fluid and thought to himself "damn I want THAT."
Remember that scene in Logan where Wolverine is trying to force Professor X to take his meds, but Xavier is having an inconsolable meltdown over how untenable life has become and he screams "THERE'S NO DIGNITY TO THIS." I think about that line a lot.
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Start regularly recording your parents, elders and loved ones. With enough transcript data, new voice synthesis and video models, there is a 100% chance that they will live with you forever after leaving physical body. This should be even possible by end of the year.
For years I heard it repeated that Darren Aronofsky had bought the live action rights to Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue. That's why he was able to plunder shots from it for his most famous films. Today I learned that never happened and he's always just said it was "homage." WTF!??
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Aronofsky at least bought the rights to Perfect Blue before plundering #SatoshiKon's work for ideas cinemagi.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/kon @E_Megas
Alright, time to retweet this again. Comiket is the biggest comic book convention in the world by far. It is a grass roots, non profit enterprise based around self publishing, yet it dwarfs Comic Con with it's millions in Hollywood funding. The founder literally set cops on fire. t.co/6Q6HdDyF0X
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THE ARTIST HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. Well, probably! It's super duper likely whoever drew that iconic sign is the artist in this Comiket CD!
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In Hazel's video where she was digging through comiket catalog for a circle she spotted an artist with a similar art style. I forgot the timestamp sorry but it's a fun video!
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When sardonic Anglophone Millennial games journalists find themselves enjoying a Japanese game
I get that people are pushing back against this being "the best animation in all of existence" but saying it's poorly done is too much. It's actually executed very well, and quite efficiently too. This scene works great in context and serves the story meaningfully.
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Don’t care what anyone says, Demon Slayer has and will have the best animation in all of anime existence.
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What a braindead take. Forget ethics even, "play" is hugely important to the health of the all important economy that these people are always willing to kill for.
This is terrible advice for 99.9% of games. Hi-Fi Rush is an Xbox exclusive published by Bethesda and developed by Tango Gameworks, which was founded by Shinji Mikami, one of the most famous and influential game designers of all time. These are very specific conditions!!
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This is painful to find out because Kon was such an incredible storyteller who never had the international commercial success of Aronofsky, who took many of his most iconic shots directly from Kon's film, Perfect Blue! I thought "well at least he paid for it" but NOPE!
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You gotta understand that in 2002, this is what "How to Draw Manga" books looked like. Western artists who didn't grow up with anime and manga really STRUGGLED to "get it." And then out of nowhere there's this WWF sign that looks like it was drawn by a pro mangaka!
People really out here defending this like
"Bro you dont get it. The Skrulls are covertly replacing humans. Thats why it's so clever to use AI art. So they can harm people IRL the way the Skrulls are harming them in fiction! I am very smart!"
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The opening credits of ‘SECRET INVASION’ are made by A.I.
(Source: polygon.com/23767640/ai-mc)
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It's hard enough to draw a motorcycle from a photo. Now imagine drawing the coolest bike in the world from your imagination, with someone riding it, all animating, shifting in perfect perspective, moving with weight & personality!
#Akira #Akira30 #アキラ #PencilTest #2DAnimation
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It's not just the drawing, look at that lettering. That's the lettering of someone stylizing their native language!
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I've had astigmatism my whole life and this is blowing my mind. That image to the left is simply how lights look to me all the time. It's making me wonder how it affects artists, especially FX animators! I bet you can tell who has astigmatism based on how they draw lights!
When you take current gen HD #sprites, upscale w/ #scanlines & zoom in, they look like the most beautiful #16bit cutscenes ever! A Thread
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As an employer, I've conducted interviews with hundreds of artists. I assure you that ArtStation is not a requirement. Employers just need some way to easily see your work. It absolutely does not have to be art station. You're not missing out if you choose to leave Art Station.
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ArtStation is now curating Trending to remove AI protest imagery. My Round Eight image was removed from the tab altogether within 20 minutes. pic.twitter.com/T7hAZVsEWIpic.twitter.com/T7hAZVsEWIpic.twitter.com/T7hAZVsEWI
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I've always thought that Breath of Fire 4 had some of the best sprite art in the world. There's shockingly few animated gifs of the game out there tho, so I made some of my own! Here's the idle animation of the Zaurus. Sprite rip by Barubary, I just compiled the frames into a gif
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Here is #Makoto's walk f animation from #SF3, in the correct aspect ratio with #scanlines! (using 's brilliant technique!)
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SO YOU SEE HIDEAKI ANNO WAS NEVER A "TROLL." IT'S JUST THAT ANGLOPHONE FANS ARE NOT USED TO SUCH INTENSE SINCERITY FROM A WORK OR A CREATOR. EVANGELION IS NOT A "SUBVERSION" OF "ANIME TROPES" RATHER IT'S A WORK AWARE OF AND CELEBRATING ITS FOREBEARS WHILE CARVING ITS OWN PATH. t.co/EHAVJcGfuu
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I was recently looking through the official OG Japanese Darkstalkers guide. All the screens were photographed from an arcade monitor, reflecting how Capcom meant for the game to be displayed. These sprites were optimized for CRT monitors!
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I was messing around with emulating scanlines last night. This is my first attempt at making my own original scanline pattern. What do y'all think?
#SpriteArt #DotArt #GameDev
RIP to Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of the greatest, most influential composers of our times. And I mean like really truly foundational levels of influence. Do you like electro? Hip hop? Videogame music? Modern film scores? Jpop? Jrock? "Experimental music"? He was a pioneer of it all!
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Ryuichi Sakamoto, the legendary pianist, producer, Academy Award-winning film scorer & co-founder of the ground-breaking band Yellow Magic Orchestra, has passed away aged 71
he'd been battling throat cancer since 2014 & succumbed to a recently-diagnosed secondary cancer
R.I.P. twitter.com/livedoornews/s…
he'd been battling throat cancer since 2014 & succumbed to a recently-diagnosed secondary cancer
R.I.P. twitter.com/livedoornews/s…Never forget that the majority of climate change inducing pollution can be traced to just 100 companies. Don't let them shift the blame to you.
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One of the greatest, most inspiring and influential sprite artists of all time is now on Twitter. Do you love Metal Slug? Then please give him a follow! All hail AKIO!!!
#pixelart #spriteart #gamedev
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初めましてakioと申します。
メタルスラッグ１〜３やR-TYPEのメインデザイナーとしてドット絵を描いてました。
アイレムやSNKを経て現在はフリーの絵描きです。
ずっとドット絵は描いてませんでしたがまた描こうと思います。
今年還暦のお爺さんですが皆さんどうぞよろしくお願いします。
For your viewing pleasure, here is every single frame of Akuma/Gouki's special intro from the Capcom vs SNK games, presented frame by frame at 8x size.
First, the animation in full!
(A thread...)
#PixelArt #SpriteArt #Akuma #豪鬼 #CVS2
Please enjoy my drawing of Homer as a gag manga character.
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I still can't get over how Homer Simpson & The Laughing Salesman have the same voice actor. Sometimes I like to watch the Japanese dub & pretend I'm watching a really obscure anime nobody's heard of.
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This shot of Yamagata is so classic! Look at how much is going on in the shadows! The pencil test really lets you appreciate how much thought went into that cloth animation!
#Akira #Akira30 #アキラ #PencilTest #2DAnimation
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CORRECTION: It was that artist's friend who drew the sign! They used to fly to the US to catch WWF shows together!
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It was drawn by an artist named Shimizu, who was a friend of animator Takahiro "Something" Yoshimatsu (the person who wrote the quoted tweet). They used to go to wrestling shows together during their trips to the U.S.
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The artist (or rather their Art Circle) has been identified!
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初っ切りプロレス or Shokkiri Pro Wrestling
seems to have been a doujinshi circle. Romanized as "Syokkiri Pro Wres"
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Belladonna of Sadness (哀しみのベラドンナ), 1973
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Share a movie poster that lives rent-free in your head. Mine’s the Conan The Barbarian film poster by Renato Casaro (1982). Magnificent! #filmtwitter
Friendly reminder: King of Fighters XIII looks even better than you remember 🤯
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The Afro Samurai show was cool, but the pitch/pilot directed and largely animated by Kazuo Koike is transcendently COOL. Filmmakers are still chasing this high decades later.
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What show do you think has the absolute best pilot?
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TLDR: production committees collude to cap budgets so they can remain in control of productions. Even when they get big cash injections from the outside, those don't increase budgets, instead they fund new productions with the same capped budgets.
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Hey did you know that Elon Musk founded Open AI? Is it a coincidence that he tried to make people think that crediting artists was uncool?
I've been seeing a lot of appreciation for Rumiko Takahashi, which is awesome. She's one of the best comics artists of all time. I want to clear up a popular misconception about her tho. Rumiko Takahashi is NOT a shoujo artist. All her mega hits are Shonen classics!
A thread...
I will not stand for this erasure
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#TheLastOfUs is aiming to break the infamous "video game curse" for adaptations.
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Public Service Announcement: all those quotes you see about Miyazaki saying how "anime was a mistake" and he hates otaku? They're all fake. They were made with the intention of tricking people into thinking they were real.
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real movie, fake subs. putting fake subs on stuff Miyazaki to imply he hates anime is a meme, and that blog makes em.
plus the subs are styled completely different from the official release
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In 1997 Mai Shiranui was voted most popular female fighting game chara among female gamers in Japan. She didn't even make the top 5 for men!
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So as more money goes into the Japanese animation industry the profits don't trickle down. Animators aren't rewarded with higher salaries, just more work at the same capped salary.
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Can anyone find the artist? It would be great to let them know their work is beloved. And ya know, maybe they should make a new The Rock doujin and sell tens of thousands of copies of it!
The retweets and replies to this thread warm my heart. 20 years ago this kind of xenophobic, wilfully hateful reaction to Nomura (& JPN art in general) was common. Today people recognize his work is both fun and PURPOSEFUL, and that's so nice to see! Discourse has improved!
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I hate Tetsuya Nomura's overdesigned bullshit. Stupid people will think it looks badass, but it's like he assembles characters out of random parts, piling details upon details, with no clear idea of what he's going for.
These are supposed to be his takes on Batman and the Joker. twitter.com/MrSnappyeagle/…
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For instance, the classic Sailor Moon transformation sequence? I bet whoever animated this had astigmatism.
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Of course you don't actually have to be Japanese to produce artwork and lettering like that. But in 2002, it was super rare to come across North American artists who could so authentically replicate manga aesthetics like that.
Vinland Saga should be required reading before anyone is allowed access to the internet.
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I NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE. Look at this delightful little robot that forms in the midst of this transformation sequence! There's so much love and craft tucked into every frame of this film!
#Akira #Akira30 #アキラ #PencilTest #2DAnimation
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This classic shot of Yamagata on his bike in Akira? One of the most beautiful visualizations of astigmatism I can think of. The way the light rolls is really accurate!
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Here are some biographical comics about famous "Otaku hater" Hideaki Anno, drawn by his wife Moyoco Anno, who depicts herself as a giant baby. Wow feel that venom coming off the pages!
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Throughout my career in videogames and animation in general, I often hear this hoary old chestnut:
"Only Western style art is mass market. Anime and everything else is niche"
It's this out of touch attitude that results in the butchering of something as iconic as Sonic.
Milton Knight is the man primarily responsible for the look and feel of the Advenures of Sonic The Hedgehog, the one with the awesome oldtimey aesthetic. He recently the victim of a brutal disgusting hate crime that left him hospitalized.
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This scene would almost certainly be animated via 3D cg today. Detailed mechanical animation is one of the most difficult things anyone can attempt to tackle in traditional animation! It's incredibly rare to find animators who could do it on this level without a cg base!
Uhhhhhh ... 🤷🏽♂️
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for all its antiwar themes, studio ghibli does nothing to address Japanese imperialism twitter.com/AngelicArtistG…
Capcom absolutely pushed the envelope for what was possible with all the classic Marvel characters that they touched. For instance, Venom actually DIDNT do all this cool, monstrous body horror stuff before Capcom! Not even Carnage did this stuff back then!
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今ではすっかり定番になった「ヴェノムはどこにでも口ができる（シンビオートは不定形生物なので）」という描写、私の知る限りではアーケードゲーム『MARVEL vs. CAPCOM』が最初だと思うんだけど、どうなんだろう。担当者に聞けばよかった。少なくとも私のアイデアではないはず。
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I'm still thinking of the time when GOAT Muay Thai fighter Buakaw became a monk and ended up looking just like Sagat irl
#บัวขาวบัญชาเมฆ
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By the way this is also how automation affects all industries (not just art, but everything). As work becomes automated, jobs get cut and the people remaining are just expected to do even more (with the aid of automation).
Game Designer: OK, so when this super connects, it turns you into a child with a totally original set of moves and sprite animations including...
Intro
Idle
Get hit
Standing attack
Crouching attack
Jump
Jump attack
Special
Jump Special
90s Capcom: No problemo! Let's do it!
Satoshi Kon was aware that Aronofsky ripped him off! Aronofsky never actually paid for the rights to Perfect Blue (it's a rumor he never corrects). Aronofsky has still never admired to being influenced by Kon, but e was allowed to write the intro to a book on Kon after his death.
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Satoshi Kon talks about how Requiem for a Dream took from Perfect Blue (1997), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse
These remarks come from a Perfect Blue lecture series that Kon did in 2007
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People who think all cartoon characters look white unless they have stereotypical ethnic features are ignorant. They aren't able to see the underlying humanity between all people. Many of them think they are progressive, but they're just spreading white supremacy.
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It's interesting to think about because it's not just a matter of practice, I think early exposure is key. There are very few GenX North American artists who could draw in an authentic anime/manga style. More Millennials can do it. But it's the lingua franca of Zoomers worldwide.
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There's dozens of individually interesting animations happening in here, but they flow together so cohesively. All the motions are actually very gentle, but their combined effect is incredibly unsettling.
#Akira #Akira30 #アキラ #PencilTest #2DAnimation
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Miyazaki never said "anime was a mistake." But he did say this!
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Miyazaki don't want his movies to be seen as sweet or healing and wants to go against the audience's expectations.
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Really cool to see the same artist (I assume) draw John Cena, Triple H, Vince McMahon, Jim Ross and Howard Finkel? "Mean" Gene Okerlubd? Who is that in the middle?
Source:
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Anglophone fandom is especially full of people who like being a fan more than liking the thing itself. This results in discourse centered around how liking certain things makes you look, vs discussions about the thing itself, the qualities of it, how it made you feel etc.
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Happy 30th Anniversary to Akira, one of the most ambitious, visionary, influential films ever made. Let's take a moment to drink in just how beautiful this film was.
#Akira #Akira30 #akiraweek
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Capcom's art team actually matched Psylocke's walk animation frames EXACTLY to her in-game walking speed. It's literally "pixel perfect!" LOOK AT THOSE TOES
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当時のカプコン2D格ゲーのドット愛は異常だった
つま先部分をよく見ればわかるけど、キャラの移動速度とドットアニメが1ピクセルもズレない完璧な仕事。
そりゃマーベルも信頼するって…
#グラフィック最強ゲーム選手権
