April 7th, 2008 by Brack
A new sakuga MAD has shown up on youtube for Hiroyuki Imaishi with some new clips (obv. a certain drill based mecha show makes a showing):
MAD Mondays - Hiroyuki Imaishi
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March 7th, 2008 by Brack
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February 25th, 2008 by Brack
This was posted by sazankasan1234 today. It’s some work by Takeshi Honda, who most recently was the character designer and chief animator on Denno Coil. As part of GAINAX he worked on Gunbuster, Nadia, Otaku no Video, Evangelion. Other animation work can be found on Giant Robo, Tenchi Muyo, Perfect Blue, Naruto the Movie, Paranoia Agent. Lots of nice running/walking in this video, including credits running from Nadia. I’ve long said that anime with people running for no reason in the credits is a sign of a good show. I may expound upon that later this week, as I think I can actually back that up with some proper thoughts on the theory, rather than it just being a gut feeling.
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February 18th, 2008 by Brack
Another from youtube user manuloz01 who continues to lovingly repost nicovideo sakuga MADs on the more easily accessible video site.
Anime News Network has, I’m guessing incomplete, filmography. Certainly he’s mentioned on AniPages Daily as having worked on the awesome Mononoke too. As per usual, if the music is light girly japanese pop, I have no clue as to the artist. Anyway, the vid is another good bit of ammo for those who want to argue against those that Toei doesn’t turn out good animators anymore (good directors… that might be a different case, is Mamoru Hosoda the only great director they’ve turned out in recent memory?).
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January 14th, 2008 by Brack
Yeah, a Takeshi Koike AMV!
He seems to a be a talent we don’t see enough of nowadays (is he same as this Takeshi Koike. Certainly Viewtiful Joe shares a look with his work).The good news is despite the sparcity of his anime work since the Animatrix, he has a film in the works Redline, an over the top Wacky Races inspired story by the looks of the trailer.
His Trava Fist Planet series on Grasshoppa! is what made me first aware of him. I’d seen his stuff in other things unknowingly, Trava was first thing that really made me aware that there was an individual voice at work. Once you see that, spotting Koike’s work elsewhere gets rather easier (well… unless it’s Hiroyuki Imaishi…).
Here’s the AMV, the music is for once identifiable to these ears. Namely She Bangs The Drum by The Stone Roses.
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January 7th, 2008 by Brack
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November 26th, 2007 by Brack
Fresh stuff courtesy of youtube user suteakamad
This time it is Yasunori Miyazawa, and as usual AniPages Daily has far more than I can possibly say on the guy. From watching this video though, I can say I really like the scenes in which people (and puppets) are being flung around like, well, puppets. I really need to check out which ever bit of Popolo Crois has all the bits that keep cropping up again and again in these clips (though I think some of them are cut scenes from the games).
The Dylan-esque music is White Light by Gene Clark.
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October 29th, 2007 by Brack
kac62no2 posted this beauty. A whole bunch of animation clips in the Kanada School of animation. So movement, exaggerated perspectives, and stuff blowing up real good abounds. YAY!
According to the info on Youtube, this video contains work by:
Shinya Ohira（大平 晋也）
Hiroyuki Imaisi（今石 洋之）
Takeshi Koike（小池 健）
Akira Amemiya（雨宮 哲）
Masao Okubo（大久保 政雄）
Itsuki Imazaki（いまざき いつき）
Jun Arai（新井 淳）
Hideki Tamura（田村 英樹）
Keisuke Watabe（渡部 圭祐）
Mitsuo Iso（磯 光雄）
Shunsaku Koduma（上妻 晋作）
Shinya Hasegawa（長谷川 眞也）
Kou Yoshinari（吉成 鋼）
Masahito Yamasita（山下 将仁）
and, of course…
Yoshinori Kanada（金田 伊功）
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October 8th, 2007 by Brack
After Masami Obari’s name cropped up in the October anime schedules as directing pornographic videogame to anime adaptation Prism Ark, I figured it’d be a good time to post this clip reel of his work.
Masami Obari’s probably better known as a character designer than animator as he has a distinctive style. Very angular and exaggerated, there’s never going to be a chance of mistaking his style for someone else. He’s worked as director and animator on a variety of classic series (Gunbuster, Bubblegum Crisis, Dancougar), as well as various videogame related projects (Fatal Fury, Battle Arena Toshinden), he’s produced a body of personal work that veers towards the lurid. From the straight out porn of his Go Nagai homage Angel Blade, to the mecha show Gravion, to the reheated cyberpunk of Virus, his own creations are more over the top, more tongue in cheek and more ridiculous than any of his adapted material. And I think that tendancy, combined with a distinctive visual look that is tied heavily to the nineties material that got releases in the US, often overshadows his work as an animator and director.
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September 10th, 2007 by Brack
If it’s Monday it must be another Hakkenden animator!
Shinji Hashimoto is another animator, who like Shinya Ohira, seems focussed on capturing realistic movement, even if the character design work often seems abstract. His cv has Akira, Animatrix, Gunbuster, Metropolis, and Tokyo Godfathers on it. Despite what Anime News Network might tell you, he didn’t produce Advent Children. That was another Shinji Hashimoto. Anime News Network encyclopedia fails again.
Animatrix:Kid’s Story Interview
AniPagesDaily Bio and Filmography
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