MAD MONDAY - MASAMI GOTO
January 7th, 2008 by Brack
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MAD MONDAYS - Yasunori Miyazawa
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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MAD MONDAY - A whole load of “Kanada School” animation
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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MAD MONDAYS - Masami Obari
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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MAD Mondays - Shinji Hashimoto
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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MAD MONDAYS - Tatsuzou Nishida
August 27th, 2007 by Brack
I don’t know much about this animator. The notes on the youtube video mention that they are known as the protege of Takaaki Yamashita, who we’ve discussed here before. The MAD has clips from recent animator showcases such as One Piece Movie 6, the 2006 Doraemon movie and Tokikake.
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MAD MONDAYS RETURN! - Hisashi Mori
August 20th, 2007 by Brack
Let’s have some semblance of order back in this place, shall we?
AniPages Daily has more that I can possibly say about Hisashi Mori written here.
I first encountered his work on Speed Grapher. In fact I’m not even sure it was on Speed Grapher per se. Did he animate the animated gifs that were used as web promotion for the show? If he did, then that was where I came across him. The website they were on doesn’t even exist anymore so I can’t go back and check. Those gifs were good, probably better than the show which was the usual GONZO stong start/run out of steam quickly combo.
Anyway, digression aside, here’s a MAD highlighting his work. The black and white punch from Baron Omatsuri, makes me think he was responsible for the aforementioned gifs that had a similar execution.
Wait, watching it again, clearly it was Giant Robo I first saw his work. Giant Robo, what a show. When I get done with the Urusei Yatsura Anime Family Tree I’m working on, Giant Robo is next.
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MAD Mondays - Naoki Tate
June 11th, 2007 by Brack
A nice find, posted by Suckga on Youtube, a compilation of recent work by Naoki Tate on One Piece. Including parts of the recent episode 311, which was the best episode for animation overall for a while. Can’t find much out about the animator though, ANN lists them only as an inbetweener on some Dragonball films. The Japanese wiki page indicates they are a Toei stalwart, and has been doing key animation on One Piece since episode 1 and art production direction since episode 105. Shame the MAD uses fansubbed video, but you know beggars can’t choosers and at least I now know the work and name of another animator.
B-B-Bonus - a handy page from Sunrise’s website in Japanese and English that explains the animation process - it helped me figure out what the roles where on the wiki page that Naoki Tate had performed.
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MAD Mondays - Yoshinori Kanada
May 14th, 2007 by Brack
I’m posting this so folks can see where the style employed by Imaishi on his current GAINAX show, Gurren Lagaan comes from. Kanada, is I believe, the Galaxy Express 999 animator that Takashi Murakami draws his line from 19th century artists to in his Superflat theory.
AniPages Daily has a biography on the chap and an article on which animators can be considered to be in the Kanada school.
That Kanada came up working on giant robot shows like Getter Robo G makes if very apt that Imaishi has created such a brazen tribute to classic super robot shows. On a side note, that whole furore over Lagaan’s episode 4 was just ridiculous. On one side, episode 4 was great, and the overreaction on behalf of 2ch shows how focused on surface homogenity anime fandom has become. On the other side, anyone working for GAINAX really can’t complain about otaku nowadays. Particularly if your main contribution to the world’s art is Princess Maker.
GAINAX, more than anyone, has moved anime fandom further towards mindless consumption of homogenous product in the last decade. I mean, they produced an artbook dedicated to Evangelion MERCHANDISE. And that was just a year or two after the show. Goodness knows how many volumes they could produce now? Japan’s otaku don’t resemble the wannabe creators of the idealistic self portrait Otaku no Video, and GAINAX’s post-Eva direction has had a great deal to do with this state of affairs.
In the interests of full disclosure, I did actually purchase that artbook dedicated to Eva merch back in the nineties.
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MAD Mondays - Hiroyuki Imaishi
April 23rd, 2007 by Brack
Normal service has been resumed.
Hiroyuki Imaishi is the director of Dead Leaves and the looking to be awesome Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Here’s a bunch of clips of his work to Rolling1000toon by Maximum The Hormone. Yes, finally a tune to one of these things that I can identify,
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