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While the next proper chapter of WataMote may be delayed a week or two due to the artist's illness, volume 17 just shipped in Japan with a 2-page bonus chapter that answers a pressing question many of us have spent way too much time thinking about: who owns the "Cunny Dog"/"Creepuppy"/"Kimoinu" whose eyes look suspiciously like Tomoko's?

The dog belongs to Megumi Imae's family, Megumi Imae being the former student council president who Tomoko viewed as a sempai; for anime-only fans, Megumi Imae is the girl who dressed up in a costume at the cultural festival to hug Tomoko and give her a balloon.
 
Watched the first episode of Kill La Kill. From what I've read on the Internet, the second part of the series takes the story in a cringey direction and tends to ruin it, though what exactly that entails I don't know. Is it worth continuing?
 
That 3D GITS movie looks like crap.

What studio did the modeling? Everything is off, the major's nose isn't supposed to be like that. It's like they hired a bunch of people who don't know what an anime styled character looks like, like westerners who pose as weebs and who did bullshit garbage like Kappa Mikey.
 
Marissa Moira said:
That 3D GITS movie looks like crap.

What studio did the modeling? Everything is off, the major's nose isn't supposed to be like that. It's like they hired a bunch of people who don't know what an anime styled character looks like, like westerners who pose as weebs and who did bullshit garbage like Kappa Mikey.
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Take that back, Kappa Mikey is a revolutionary masterpiece.
 
Marissa Moira said:
That 3D GITS movie looks like crap.

What studio did the modeling? Everything is off, the major's nose isn't supposed to be like that. It's like they hired a bunch of people who don't know what an anime styled character looks like, like westerners who pose as weebs and who did bullshit garbage like Kappa Mikey.
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Dude who did the art is actually a russian expy, Ilya Kuvshinov. Known for generic anime girl portraits, if you've seen a pfp of this sort of girl chances are it was drawn by him.
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/ic/ has an incredible hate boner for him.
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Atatata said:
Dude who did the art is actually a russian expy, Ilya Kuvshinov. Known for generic anime girl portraits, none the less. If you've seen a pfp of this sort of girl chances are it was drawn by him.
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/ic/ has an incredible hate boner for him.
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Doing the art isn't the same as the modeling. Like all 3d characters start as 2d blueprints which he probably did do, but the 3d artists have to properly sculpt shit. if you get an inexperienced artist, that's how you get shit like Spyro Trilogy's Elora.

You have to model an anime face from multiple angles including lesser used angles like looking at the character with the chin facing you to make sure the cheek contours will flow properly. 3/4ths perspective is also used to get the sides of the face looking right so it doesn't have that realdoll look. It helps to have temporary eyes and eyelashes in to help guide the modeling. For a proper anime rig you're not going to want the eye to be a solid sphere with a texture on it and more than likely will want the iris to be a separate object from the whites of the eye where it's linked to a helper on a bone to animate similarly to a satellite in an orbit when moving the eyes. Or you could do the route that's used in disney annamatronics and have a 2D artist animate the facial expressions which is tied to an animated shader/texture on a blank face that has limited detail.
 
Xarpho said:
Watched the first episode of Kill La Kill. From what I've read on the Internet, the second part of the series takes the story in a cringey direction and tends to ruin it, though what exactly that entails I don't know. Is it worth continuing?
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It's a weird twist, but I didn't feel it took away from the series. Actually, it made the weekly watch even more fun as fan discussions blew up increasingly during that time.

It all really depends on if you're going to like Nui Harime or not.
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Marissa Moira said:
That 3D GITS movie looks like crap.

What studio did the modeling? Everything is off, the major's nose isn't supposed to be like that. It's like they hired a bunch of people who don't know what an anime styled character looks like, like westerners who pose as weebs and who did bullshit garbage like Kappa Mikey.
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Probably the same studio doing the animation, Aramaki's company Sola Digital Arts.

Then again, Japan loves outsourcing CGI like it does its 2D. Guess we'll have to wait until it comes out to actually find out.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Probably the same studio doing the animation, Aramaki's company Sola Digital Arts.
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Yup, it's them. They can make some really cool CGI if they put their mind to it.
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Methinks Digital Frontier would've handled it better, but eh. As long as it'll run smooth, I can get used to the style.
 
Oh Shit I'm Sorry said:
He's also the only guy I've seen that draws nudity and sex scenes sans any kind of mosaics, curious as to how he's able to avoid their super strict censorship rules.
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NeWMeN and a couple of other lesser known artists were already drawing and publishing uncensored hentai mamga in Japan during the mid-90ies.
 
After over two decades of having seen some of the 4KIDS' dub, I'm finding myself becoming really sucked into Magical DoReMi--well, Ojamajo Doremi, really. It's super cute, I can see why it is I love magical witches, this was basically the show that got me fully cemented as a magical girl fan, but especially magical witches. For a Toei show, it's surprisingly a pretty fast watch, which is kinda rare for me? Usually, Toei shows feel way too slow for me. I can also see that this had to have been an easy show for them to make, and also why it is they moved into making One Piece, the styles are very similar (least for the first seasons of both shows).

It's a very clean show in terms of animation, but this is kinda sloppy put together at the same time. This is like the fourth or fifth time in seven episodes I've noticed the cels have been poorly placed in frame.
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I haven't seen an animation cel so sloppily done since Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni... :/
 
Kari Kamiya said:
It's a very clean show in terms of animation, but this is kinda sloppy put together at the same time. This is like the fourth or fifth time in seven episodes I've noticed the cels have been poorly placed in frame.
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I haven't seen an animation cel so sloppily done since Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni... :/
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Is this a modern episode produced for high definition television? If it's an older episode produced for standard definition NTSC televisions (Japan used NTSC just like North America did), that gap would probably have been in the "overscan" area which wouldn't have been visible on most televisions.
 
Pinot Pierrot said:
Time for weird shit.

The cover for Looking Up to Magical Girls is a lie; the MC is forcibly enlisted as a magical girl villain, her breasts are covered in pasties, and her speciality is BDSM magic because she is a closet sadist. Even so, she still wishes to engage with the magical girls she idolizes so very deeply, believing her role as a powerful villain will make their feats and struggles shine all the brighter.
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Lol, it mentions Kiwi-chan!
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Atatata said:
Dude who did the art is actually a russian expy, Ilya Kuvshinov. Known for generic anime girl portraits, if you've seen a pfp of this sort of girl chances are it was drawn by him.
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Not only /ic/ has a hate-boner for him, he is nicknamed Кувшин (Kuvshin) for short, meaning "jug" in Russian, and generally looked down upon in Russian art community. There was a huge drama a while ago when someone accused Kuvshinov in tracing images, and I'm not entirely sure the accusations were disproved.

Edit: added a second quote to avoid doublepost
 
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sasazuka said:
Is this a modern episode produced for high definition television? If it's an older episode produced for standard definition NTSC televisions (Japan used NTSC just like North America did), that gap would probably have been in the "overscan" area which wouldn't have been visible on most televisions.
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1999. So how common is this in older shows, then? I honestly haven't seen it happen in an older show like this before.
 
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