Daily Archives: May 22, 2023

In the “Six Jewel River” by Sakai Ōho a lot of the color choices are reminiscent of anime. The colors on the characters pop out against the background but also work well with each other. They are lined with a medium size brush to separate the colors from each other but not be too distracting to completely take your focus away from them. The background is lineless and made sure to be desaturated to not be the main focus. As the scroll continues the background also fades out, adding even more emphasis to the characters instead of the background. The drawing style of the greenery also reminds me of how anime animators draw flowers and other background elements to enhance and add life to the scene without taking away from the characters.

I believe these studios decided to close their 2D studios because they saw the success and ease of 3D animation and it was also way less expensive and time consuming as it became more and more popular. I believe this was the worst decision made, especially Disney. I think 2D animation and 3D animation can co-exist, especially where movies use a mix of both such and the Netflix series, Arcane, where a lot of the cool effects and things are 2D animated while the characters are in a sketchy style but still 3D. Disney tried to replicate this with their new movie, Wish, but just from the trailer I can tell it will not work because the choices in what to make a stylized 3D watercolor style is just awful and makes the movie look unfinish. I believe they lost their talent with 2D and it is what many people hold near and dear to them and what made them. I prefer 2D over 3D just because there is so much that can be done with it. I believe that most anime movies have a great reception, even though they take so long to make, they are beautiful in their own ways and constantly draw people in and I believe its a risk that a lot of western studios should take.

Many early films were based of off adaptions for comics because they already had a pre-existing fanbase and an easy story to work with. Comics are similar to animation as they are both defined as different types of image sequences. There was not a lot of pre-production work that had to be done because the comic artists and creator had already done this for them. Additionally, it was generally cheaper for them to work with something already existing instead of making and developing characters for animation which was not a common thing to do back then.