Forum - View topicINTEREST: 'Goodbye, Lara' Anime's Opening Uses Cel-Drawn Animation
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Chiyosuke
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This show is freakin gorgeous. Been wanting to say that for a week now.
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Top Gun
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I wasn't even an anime fan by the time the cel era ended but shows from back then just look better. Digital animation has never been able to replicate that warmth.
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malvarez1
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That’s really cool. In an age of AI, I always appreciate the extra effort.
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BalmungHHQ
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It's only used on that one section of the Opening, but it's still very cool nonetheless.
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Flared
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Always refreshing to see hand-drawn cel animation in this day and age, even if this wasn't entirely surprising considering how much this series leans into 80s/90s art styles.
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SinisterOracle
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I think this OP and the ED for Sparks of Tomorrow are the best looking sequences of the season.
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thekingsdinner
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I am absolutely gushing over this. I love, love, love this so much. Yeah it's just a few cuts in the opening, but it pays such a wonderful tribute to cel animation. It makes me somewhat sentimental, knowing that this is a dead form of art.
I know why it's not used anymore, but these cuts show just how beautiful cels still are. The rest is just as wonderfully animated in its own right, but never can digital match the sort of feeling cels convey to me. Only two episodes in, but I adore this show for its technical aspects alone already. I hope this will release on Blu-ray in the future. |
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Silver Kirin
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Funny you mention the '90s, because it was technically in the late '90s where some studios began switching to digital ink & paint, though it seems Toei Animation was the major one with all of their shows made after 1997 being digitally colored, though their movies were hand painted for a while. Excel Saga from 1999 was also digitally colored, some shows like Cowboy Bebop had a few episodes digitally painted, and I think shows like Gokudo sometimes mixed scenes traditionally made with cels with digitally painted ones. Now that I think of it, Western animated shows began being digitally colored much earlier. |
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LinkTSwordmaster
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I was gonna take a pass on it, but interviews are coming out that it may in fact be the real deal. I originally had no interest at all in keeping tabs on it, but now with the news popping up, I may actually at least keep my ear out in case it does wind up surprising everyone with a good WLW show. |
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Fluwm
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The interview I last remember seeing said something to the effect of them wanting it to be more complex than the "typical" yuri anime, which I'm not entirely sure how to interpret... it could go either way, really: yuri or yuribait.
(Which also made me wonder if I even know what the "typical yuri anime" even is -- the stuff I've watched and/or read has certainly struck me as being unwilling or even the slightest bit hesitant to get complicated or messy.) |
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Kougeru
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Twitter was acting like this is a lost technology lol
Also, I feel like I've been saying for 20 years now that IKIMONOGAKARI does not have a hyphen. It still doesn't. Even on official media/posts they either write it as "IKIMONOKARI" (as seen on their bio) or with just the first "I" in caps like in this tweet, but never with a hyphen. https://x.com/IKIMONOofficial/status/2077365059567661089 |
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mdo7
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I don't know how I missed this, but it's really a surprise and very refreshing to see cel-animation being used for this. I'm not planning to watch this anime (not my flavor) but it's kind of cool to see this anime's OP making use of cel-animation for this.
I love hand-drawn animation too, and I would love to see cel-animation make a return in some aspect. Yes, I know that digital ink and color drawn animation are nice and all. But there's something about cel animation that you can't see in today's digital 2D hand-drawn ink and color animation, it's the aesthetic that makes cel animation stand out. I got to give kudos to Koide-san and Kinema Citrus for using cel animation even if it's made for the anime 's OP only. I would love it if more anime studio can try to bring back and incorporate/integrate cel-animation in some way (and maybe blend it in with digital ink and color hand-drawn animation), that can make the animation more stand out and add a bit of a certain look that is missing in today's animation. Now and then, there are kids that watch animation from many years ago (which used cel animation), and they can still impress kids today. I think today's anime that make use of cel animation one way or another could make it stand out, I think that's why Goodbye, Lara got my attention with the use of cel animation. For those of you that want to know how cel animation can stand out, I'll use Arthur (cel vs digital hand drawn animation) for comparison. See how cel animation looks, I want to see anime bring back cel for some part or segment for an anime to add varieties and to make anime look more refreshing IMO. Can we bring back cel-animation for some part in anime in the near future? That would be refreshing for me. |
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