Sakuga/Animator Appreciation Thread!

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daichi383

School Idol
Now i realize that most people don't pay attention to the animators who work on anime but i felt i had to share the work of some of my favorite animators who work in the industry today. You can get a feel for certain animators based on their drawings (shapes, the kinds of details they like to include, and whatnot) and their timing as they each obviously have distinct styles. I just wanted to share some of my obsessions with fellow nerds :wink:

Hironori Tanaka

Takafumi Hori

Yutaka Nakamura

Norio Matsumoto
 
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ilmaestro said:
Some great videos there, I'm glad the thread was as specific as the title implied.
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Yep the videos are great indeed. following animators is something i've been doing for the past year and it helps with my portfolio cause studying the styles of other helps improve my own animating skills. Heres another one:

Yoshimichi Kameda
 
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Sparrowsabre7 said:
I don;t really know any. I barely know studios :p Of which Madhouse tops my list.
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Then i hope this thread can educate you my friend :twisted:

Yoshiyuki Ito
This animator is one that works mostly with bones these days and did the character design work for the original FMA, Soul Eater and Star Driver alongside doing key animation work for those shows and many others.


Naotoshi Shida
Another example of a generally studio specific animator is naotoshi shida. this animator works on toei animation shows primarily such as one piece, pretty cure, toriko and the new digimon show. Another very distinct style that most would be able to recognize as soon as they see it especially because of the very unique effects animation.

 
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Ooh, some great vids and links in this thread! That Takafumi Hori vid was amazing, so he did animation for both Champloo and Redline? Two of the finest examples of animation in modern anime.

Also whoever did Sword of the Stranger would certainly be high on my list of animators.
 
vashdaman said:
Ooh, some great vids and links in this thread! That Takafumi Hori vid was amazing, so he did animation for both Champloo and Redline? Two of the finest examples of animation in modern anime.

Also whoever did Sword of the Stranger would certainly be high on my list of animators.
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If you mean the animator of the final fight in Sword of the Stranger then that would be Grand master Yutaka Nakamura (of FMA, Soul Eater, Escaflowne and Cowboy Bebop Fame).

Shiroi Hane said:
Crunchyroll have done a series of Sakuga articles:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/newsfeed/tag/sakuga

There are a lot of Sakuota on Twitter, e.g. http://twitter.com/raito_kun
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Yeah a couple of animator videos i made were featured on there and i already follow a lot of these guys (particularly takafumi hori) on twitter.
 
I think i might start updating this thread once a week now any way here is a video of Ryo Chimo's work. anyone thats watched birdy the mighty decode and noein would have seen his work. i also reccomend everyone watch his new ova adaption of Yozakura Quartet since it has some of the most immpresive stuff i've ever seen. especially episode 2.

 
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animefreak17 said:
Akira toriyama
Go nagai
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They are not animators they are mangaka. there's a difference between sequential art and animation my friend.
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I'd like to contribute to this thread, but I'm really ignorant about animation technics. On the other side, I'd like to learn something about this matter. So, Daichi, if you can continue this thread with some explanations about technics and providing visual examples, then I'd be grateful. In few words: just don't be discouraged if you don't see any answer and please continue posting here.



Teo
 
teonzo said:
I'd like to contribute to this thread, but I'm really ignorant about animation technics. On the other side, I'd like to learn something about this matter. So, Daichi, if you can continue this thread with some explanations about technics and providing visual examples, then I'd be grateful. In few words: just don't be discouraged if you don't see any answer and please continue posting here.



Teo
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^^; thanks.

Heres something that might be of interest to older fans (especially those who watched shows like bubblegum crisis). the following video shows work inspired by the style of the late great Yoshinori Kanada. he influenced a great deal of younger animators and his style is easily recognizable. the main technique he usues that distinguishes him is the way he goes about shading anything from explosions to people. in this sense his style of shading can be somewhat reminiscent of takeshi koike's in that instead of shading it like you usually see with the tone being a darker skin tone, he instead opts to use black instead and while koike uses his shading in generally the same way most animators do except its just black, kanada makes his shading look very blocky and change and contort quite vigorously. these days the most prominant animator you see using this style would be jun arai who works on a lot of shows from NEEDLESS to C. Heres the video and keep in mind i may get a few facts wrong now and then but hey i'm only a fan so don't get mad at me:

Yoshinori Kanada Style Animation

Jun Arai

Edit: I changed the title of the thread :wink:
 
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Shiroi Hane said:
Scott Green has a regular Sakuga (animation) column on Crunchyroll: http://www.crunchyroll.com/newsfeed/tag/sakuga

I also remember him linking to a series of informative YouTube videos from a convention panel: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... -in-motion
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These were already mentioned before in the thread the first one by you i believe :wink:. on another topic however the second link has very interesting post about naruto shippuden episode 167. I love that episode and shingo yamashita but some people do not. comments section is worth a read guys. thanks for dat link shiroi hane.
 
Hey guys! I've not posted in months but hey i felt like talking about Mr. Hiroshi Tomioka today.Thanks to Shiroi Hane i figured out hes recently worked on Sword Art Online in episode 2 as the key animator of the final fight in the episode. Not 100% sure but it looks like his style and looks almost identical to the style he used in Star Driver (He is also in the credits).

Hiroshi Tomioka
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From these videos and earlier videos i posted in this thread you should notice that Tomioka has a style that's very similar to Hironori Tanaka as they have worked on a lot of the same shows with the major difference being that Tanaka puts a lot more detail in the way he portrays hair as he likes to make it look a mess and effects such as smoke and explosions which tend to look very realistic at times albeit with the blocks of earth he likes to use. the way the characters move in Tanaka's key animation is also more exaggerated but don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that he is better than Tomioka necessarily. I'm can't remember where i read this (and don't quote me on this) but i do seem to remember reading somewhere that Tomioka worked under Tanaka for a while which might explain the similarities but since then his key animation has continued to improve to the point that he now has his own recognizable style that is still similar to Tanaka's but also completely his own. So there's an interesting (probably not) look at Tomioka's style.
 
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