雅 Gorilord

‘right, gotta go back to my painting. Classes are AWESOME and my teachers are super cool....

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:12:05 -0300

‘right, gotta go back to my painting.

Classes are AWESOME and my teachers are super cool. They’ve been praising me non-stop since I got there and wow, that’s so supportive and refreshing after being in a career where the teachers meant to destroy your creativity everyday, lol

Of course there are people who paint a lot better than I do, with better ideas and stuff. But I see them as a challenge now! I haven’t made any acquaintances this far and I don’t think I’m interested in doing so… I have a couple of friends that I know from other places who are attending with me so that’s enough for now.

Well, well, time to resume my work.

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*huggles* Best of luck with everything, Ganshii-nee-san~!

Baww thank you sweetie <3

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GANSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII /TACKLES

Fairy!!! :***

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GANSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII asjfksdgsdg i hope everything is going well for you, i wish you the best of luck with everything !!! ; u ;

Hey there Sanna! Thanks a lot!

You still can stalk me through FB though *hugs*

Hey buds, what’s up. Just checking on you after two or three weeks of chaos. Truly I...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:56:42 -0300

Hey buds, what’s up.

Just checking on you after two or three weeks of chaos.

Truly I can’t even say how many days have passed since classes started. Or how much sleep I’ve had.

It must be less than what I need, that’s for sure.

Thanks to those who still stick with me, I love you all ♥

How Anime is made: A tour through Production I.G.

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:48:23 -0300

Back in 2010, Danny Choo had the chance to visit the head offices of Production I.G., the studio behind Sengoku BASARA, Ghost in the Shell, Guilty Crown, Usagi Drop, Avenger, Shingeki no Kyojin, and many others.

For those who don’t know Danny Choo, he runs a small media production company, Mirai Inc., which purpose is to share Japanese culture with the rest of the world. As he stated, he’s a very big fan of I.G., so when he was allowed to enter this wonderful place, I bet he was totally fanboy about it.

This entry of his blog is old; but I was linked to it by a friend today, and I wondered if you guys had ever seen it. So that’s why I’m sharing it.

At the time, I.G. was working on Sengoku BASARA Two series, so Choo shared a lot of material of the current project.

Wanna see more? Long post under the cut!!

As in every other Japanese environment, employees and visitors must take their shoes off before entering the offices.

Just look as this super tidy work space!!

Well, the archives do look a little bit messy.

And look! A Blood+ pachislot machine:

The cameras used to shot every frame before computers:

But enough of tech, it’s time to show our guns up!

Let me introduce you to Okubo Toru:

Well, he’s a bit shy. He didn’t want Choo to take a photo of his face…

This man is responsible for the Sengoku BASARA character designs, and here he was working on some key animation.

He keeps Masamune’s character sheet close to avoid making any mistakes:

Look at his desk. Isn’t it wonderful!

He even keeps a mirror among his stuff, so he can improve facial expressions when needed.

What is the key animation? Basically, the key (or main) frames of every animated scene. A sequence of keyframes defines which movement the viewer will see, whereas the position of the keyframes on the film, video or animation defines the timing of the movement. Because only two or three keyframes over the span of a second do not create the illusion of movement, the remaining frames are filled with inbetweens.

The senior or key artist would draw the keyframes, then, after testing and approval of the rough animation, give the scene to his assistant. The assistant does the clean-up and the necessary ‘inbetweens’, or, in really big studios, only some breakdown which define the movement in more detail, then give the scene to his assistant, the ‘inbetweener’ who does the remainder.

(Thank you, Wikipedia.)

You recognize the scene, right? I bet you do!

Choo had to try it himself:

Animators are expected to do this in 20 minutes— or less!!

They use a hard pencil to trace over Okubo’s sketches and then the sketch will be digitized via a scanner.

But alas, it’s not over yet, so let’s move on…

Five minutes!!! I would die.

Notice that the colorists keep the reference always close as well.

They all use PCs. Apparently for Choo it was a surprise since TV studios tend to use Mac in Japan.

And of course, our host wanted to try this out as well:

The software allows the colorist to select areas, inverse and fill in colors for the current frame. The sheet that was filled in with colored hard lines have now made it easy for areas to be filled in on the computer.

All the completed frames are then strung together and merged with backgrounds and light flares. The final product is then ready for a process called Afreco “After Recording” [アフレコ] where anime voice actors/actress read their scripts while making sure that the voice is in sync with the mouth movements. Sound effects and sound are usually added right at the end.

Enough of work, anyway! Time to wander around the office a little more.

DID YOU SAY MERCH?!

Production IG also run their own restaurant called Musashino Campus:

There you can find food, booze (yay!) and diverse anime related souvenirs.

Some awards I.G. has won during the years:

And Ishikawa Mitsuhisa, I.G.’s big boss:

Some more material of our series:

Finally, Ishikawa’s last words:

Lovely ♥

Danny Choo’s posts and broadcasts are plain good. Check more of them if you have the time!

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Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:01:46 -0300

From tomorrow on, I will be very, very, very busy. I don’t know how I’ll manage to...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:59:46 -0300

From tomorrow on, I will be very, very, very busy.

I don’t know how I’ll manage to fulfill all my duties, but I do know I will miss to be here chillin’ with my friends.

Any of you that wants to talk to me, you can do it through Skype. Message me if you want it, I’ll be glad to add you. I’ll be on mostly during my work shift, but I’ll be on.

This is quite hard for me right now and I feel so tired and my eyes are watery, but I guess it’s because I didn’t sleep much last night.

I want to be here but I have a lot of things to do and I feel so tired that I’m afraid I won’t be a very good company anymore.

But don’t forget I’m here if you need anything, as you’ve been for me. I love you all.

Time to drift apart before my hopeless, resigned evening mood starts to show. See ya’.

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Time to drift apart before my hopeless, resigned evening mood starts to show. See ya’.

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ryouta-fushimi: Aokise;

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ryouta-fushimi:

Aokise;

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Classes are going to start soon and I won’t even have half of the free time I have now. I feel...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:17:08 -0300

Classes are going to start soon and I won’t even have half of the free time I have now.

I feel somehow sad about it but… that’s my reward for not doing this before, I suppose. Consequences of my bad choices.

carayart: This one is from a livestream session - I edited it...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:09:12 -0300

carayart:

This one is from a livestream session - I edited it afterwards :>
I still don’t know if I can ever do justice to Oichi (… no Nagamasa pun intended.)

credit for the stock image

What are you saying, she’s perfect.

I’d say this is from the time where she was barely knowing Nagamasa. Oh! ♥

雅 Gorilord

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How Anime is made: A tour through Production I.G.

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From tomorrow on, I will be very, very, very busy. I don’t know how I’ll manage to...

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