Movie/animation character movement pet peeves!

kuwisdelu said:

I get that. Some anime are like that, too. But I do wonder why most contemporary Western animation styles tend to run toward the simplistic.

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I'm not sure.

Maybe it's because western animation tends to use caricature - and simplicity goes with caricature like Five Guy's hamburger's go with my facehole.

Ravioli said:

If it's any consolation, lots of anime characters can also be told apart by shape of eyes and hairstyle only.

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They've lost a lot of silhoutte strength lately -- not to pick on Digimon Tri again, but contrast the silhouttes in Digimon Adventure versus Digimon Tri. The hairstyle 'realism' isn't too widespread yet, we still get shows like One Punch Man that have a really good sense of silhouettes, but a lot of anime are moving towards a 'standard' eye style for a show that really ruins some of the variety we used to have.

But hey, I've been watching anime a long, long time now. It's entirely possible I'm just reaching the "THINGS WERE BETTER BACK IN MY DAY" stage of style crotchetiness. Overall anime's had a lot of improvements to be thankful for, much cleaner styles, a huge leap in background technology improvement, and rotoscoping is creating some amazing work like Evangelion's piano scene.

There's a lot I adore about anime, but I didn't mention it in the last post to try and keep on-topic to the thread.

EMaree said:

and white/Asian (depending on how you interpret pale anime characters)

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I still don't get how many people don't get that Japanese characters in a Japanese setting are Japanese just because the skin tone doesn't match up with Asian stereotypes.

EMaree said:

But hey, I've been watching anime a long, long time now. It's entirely possible I'm just reaching the "THINGS WERE BETTER BACK IN MY DAY" stage of style crotchetiness.

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Well. There will always be a lot of crap.

The good stuff stays good. Some things have changed, of course.

I doubt we'll ever see the surreal beauty of the glass animation of Ohtori Academy's floating world as in Adolescent Apocalypse again.

The color red will never be as rich as it was in the ink and paint era.

But the hand-drawn mecha battles in Star Driver were still a welcome, recent charm, and we have cool, bizarre stuff like Inu Curry's witch labyrinths in Madoka.

And of course we have Bakemonogatari self-referencing the art style changes over the years.

EMaree said:

some amazing work like Evangelion's piano scene.

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Well. Anno is always a gold standard.

Even before he had a budget.

I usually hate rotoscope in anime, but he nails it.

And of course we have Bakemonogatari self-referencing the art style changes over the years.

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I think a lot of anime has gotten Peter Chungified, IMO.