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This is why I think Akira can't be surpassed. Not just because it was done on acetate, but because of the level of skill and consideration required to animate t
by xorbax 2y ago
This is why I think Akira can't be surpassed. Not just because it was done on acetate, but because of the level of skill and consideration required to animate that way. You can't just undo that brush stroke onto the cel and try something else.
As much as technology has democratized the field, I think it also lowers the heights. I desperately hope I'm wrong and just old, but I haven't met someone who puts up something that they think is better. Maybe it's just because we're in the transitory phase - but digital animation has been around for decades at this point. Maybe it's Ikea versus handcrafting, and the shift is in the expected quality rather than the art elevating itself to meet priors.
- doublepg23 2y agoI think the democratization means the heights won't be big-budget corporate things, they'll be on YouTube or Patreon.
- cedilla 2y agoAkira was a big budget corporate thing though. It's technical excellence came from having the budget to employ multiple highly skilled animation leads and hundreds of animators drawing hundreds of thousands of cells.
- fidotron 2y agoConspicuously though Akira is a product of the manga industry and not the anime one. This is why it deviates from the norms in so many respects.
- cedilla 2y agoAkira is a cult classic and a pivotal point in anime - much more in the US than in Japan. If you don't know of a film surpassing it in skill and consideration in the thirty years since it was made it probably says more about your exposure to anime. Maybe it's just that Cyberpunk is less popular now and the big genres are of less interest to you.
- lupusreal 2y agoThe big genres of modern anime seem to predominantly be pandering to base weebs. Waifu shit meant to sell body pillows. Where is all the serious animation like Magnetic Rose at?
- breckenedge 2y agoEras that produce masterpieces are unsustainable.
- lupusreal 2y agoI think animation done in computers can be excellent, but is disadvantaged because computers make it easier to do thinks quick and cheap and the economics of animation incentivises taking that direction. Redline is a rare example where I think it's done well.
- bch 2y ago> Redline is a rare example Tekkonkinkreet
- warcher 2y agoWatch into the spider verse sometime if you want to see what modern tech can be when it’s fully unleashed, versus kept under budget.
- giuseppe_petri 2y ago> You can't just undo that brush stroke onto the cel and try something else. That's why you animate with pencil on paper first.