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On their anime production requirements (https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000593927-Anime-Production-Minimum-Requirements https://part

On their anime production requirements (https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000593927-Anime-Production-Minimum-Requirements https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...): > The working resolution must be 1920x1080 or higher throughout the production, including drawing, scanning, background, CG and VFX. At least a few years ago, there was a belief that most anime were produced at under 1080p, then upscaled if necessary. Therefore 1080p anime didn't offer and advantages compared to 720p releases. I wonder if this is still true to this day.

quartesixte 5y ago
IIRC, the quality concerns in anime has never really been resolution — in all the circles I used to dabble in, the real concern was color bit-depth, with 1080p just being a given. Last time I checked in, 10-bit rips of bluray releases were the holy grail and anyone “serious” about their anime quality made sure to have all the proper media players and codecs to handle it.
- tuankiet65 5y ago
  You're not wrong, 10-bit depth is essential to avoid color banding. However, I believe that all anime blu-rays are encoded in 8-bit AVC, so the issue is not the bit depth in the source material. Rather, fansub groups re-encode blu-ray releases to achieve smaller bitrate, and 8-bit => 10-bit conversion allows higher compression rate while still avoiding banding.
nullify88 5y ago
Did Arcane fall under those requirements? Its been a long time since I saw something animated and styled so beautifully. Before that, I was usually impressed by Ufotables quality (Garden of sinners, Fate Stay / Night stuff).
- urthor 5y ago
  Arcane is 3D animation (vectors and polygons) over painted backgrounds for 100% of it I believe. Anime is computer edited 2D cells drawn on tablets for foreground and background and layered. The 3D work is limited to certain scenes. 3D animation can be scaled up and down, but it's not hand drawn and converted to raster images like the 2D cells necessarily. I imagine with anime they just agree on a resolution for all the rasters and plug away at it, because they're under insane time/budget pressure. The painted backgrounds who knows.
  - TheRealNGenius 5y ago
    Just to add, Arcana also makes use of 2d effects animation. You can notice this when there is fire for instance, and in many of the explosions as well. Impact frames are also likely hand drawn.
    - urthor 5y ago
      I imagine the 2D effects animation is also done in vectors like the 3D. Maybe a better way of phrasing my answer is that Arcane was done in vector shapes. Whilst anime is sometimes done "quick and dirty" by agreeing on a raster resolution and mastering everything in raster.

quartesixte 5y ago

IIRC, the quality concerns in anime has never really been resolution — in all the circles I used to dabble in, the real concern was color bit-depth, with 1080p just being a given. Last time I checked in, 10-bit rips of bluray releases were the holy grail and anyone “serious” about their anime quality made sure to have all the proper media players and codecs to handle it.

tuankiet65 5y ago
You're not wrong, 10-bit depth is essential to avoid color banding. However, I believe that all anime blu-rays are encoded in 8-bit AVC, so the issue is not the bit depth in the source material. Rather, fansub groups re-encode blu-ray releases to achieve smaller bitrate, and 8-bit => 10-bit conversion allows higher compression rate while still avoiding banding.

nullify88 5y ago

Did Arcane fall under those requirements? Its been a long time since I saw something animated and styled so beautifully. Before that, I was usually impressed by Ufotables quality (Garden of sinners, Fate Stay / Night stuff).

urthor 5y ago
Arcane is 3D animation (vectors and polygons) over painted backgrounds for 100% of it I believe. Anime is computer edited 2D cells drawn on tablets for foreground and background and layered. The 3D work is limited to certain scenes. 3D animation can be scaled up and down, but it's not hand drawn and converted to raster images like the 2D cells necessarily. I imagine with anime they just agree on a resolution for all the rasters and plug away at it, because they're under insane time/budget pressure. The painted backgrounds who knows.
- TheRealNGenius 5y ago
  Just to add, Arcana also makes use of 2d effects animation. You can notice this when there is fire for instance, and in many of the explosions as well. Impact frames are also likely hand drawn.
  - urthor 5y ago
    I imagine the 2D effects animation is also done in vectors like the 3D. Maybe a better way of phrasing my answer is that Arcane was done in vector shapes. Whilst anime is sometimes done "quick and dirty" by agreeing on a raster resolution and mastering everything in raster.