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NEWS: 2 Seasons of NHK's Ani-Kuri 15 Shorts Posted Online




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GATSU



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:35 am Reply with quote
Man, they've been taking a while to upload those...Arias discusses the theme of these shorts here.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:17 am Reply with quote
But, man, this is what I'm talkin' 'bout when I say there's more going on in Japan than the U.S., animation-wise. These are the kinds of styles you might have once been able to get in American animation, right before the artists were forced to do Disney/Pixar knock-offs to survive.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:36 am Reply with quote
I like the one from Takeuchi best.

There's no point in waiting for that website to upload those films. The third season can be found on YouTube. I recommend the one from Shinkai (funny) and Maeda (totally crazy).

@ Gatsu
Well, they can be free in their style for those specials but normally this isn't Japanese mainstream animation. Usually Japanese animation is even more restricted in artistic freedom than American.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:35 pm Reply with quote
I like Murata's and the one where the artist is drawing the backgrounds the best.

Man I hate how these are direct streaming with no buffering allowed. If the Japanse server is busy, it really ruins the experience. Luckily I got to see most of them fine.

Also, not a big deal, but ANN might consider putting the kanji next to the names in the article so that we know who is who's. I recognize Oshii and Murata, but the rest I had to figure out by looking at the few words they put in english on the profile by checking them against the encyclopedia. Only the shows they list in the profiles are not the same as the ones that listed next to their names in the article. Plus some of them have worked on the same stuff.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:20 pm Reply with quote
hara wrote:
Usually Japanese animation is even more restricted in artistic freedom than American.


Not according to Peter Chung, who's worked with both:

Peter Chung wrote:
There is no "always" in art. Specialization increases quality, but costs more. The Japanese understand that, but resist it for the sake of freedom and efficiency. (When possible, they do choose animators best suited for particular scenes.) Organizing by specialization takes longer to produce animation, therefore costs more money. Costing more money means that the films have to be more popular. That in turn means that creative freedom is restricted. Many Japanese studios and directors would prefer to have lower budgets and more freedom than higher budgets with less freedom. It seems that many American directors feel it is their job to make films that appeal to the maximum number of viewers. They would say that specialists are critical to achieving that goal.


From his posts here.
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hara



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:21 am Reply with quote
Thank you very much, that information is very interesting.

With "artistic freedom" I meant that American animation seems to be more diversified when it comes to different styles and such. I defined the "restriction" of Japanese animation by Japanese design standards that all are very similar (at least in mainstream animation).
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