I just saw his cut in the 3rd episode of Space Dandy 2nd season, and was blown away. What an amazing age it is for being a fan of animation, when there's actually a youtube video made about him. Just 2 years ago that would have been unthinkable.

Ohhhhh great vid! I want to see more of these kind of vids

So much you can learn - I wish I had a million lifetimes to learn everything

i just realized how breath taking Ohira's animation is hot damn literally

I love anything thats a little weird or off kilter. Anything is possible with animation, so why not experiment a little bit? This was a really entertaining and educational video. I'll be looking forward to more stuff from you.

This is the animation I love he is also a favorite of mine. I love these please do more for other amazing and unique artists

I wholeheartedly support the idea of this being a series! You've taken a pretty rounded approach to looking at Ohira's work, from collecting your own observations with that of official interviews and other animators. It would be interesting to hear what you have to say about people like Mitsuo Iso or Yoshimichi Komaeda. While channels like RCAnime and The Canipa Effect are great on their own, hearing another animator gush about Sakuga using their own perspective on it is grand. To me, it's the best of both worlds.

Thanks for all the efforts of sharing! More are welcome.

Mr. Wimshurst, you always help me out when I'm stuck. Thanks so much dude

Oh man so happy that you made a video talking about his work, he is also one of my favorite animators, i find his work most inspiring amongst all the other top animators out there. His work in kill bill allways filled me with awe and is the ideal type of animation I've always wanted to incorporate in my own work.

really nice breakdown here, seeing this kind of stuff on sakuga from an animator's perspective is a much needed thing on youtube. i can see quite a bit of ohira in your own work, too

I was able to tell he was a massive influence of yours just from the way characters move in your animations. Brilliant to see you discuss such a talent in the industry.

nice video. this guys is like a hero to a lot of animators I'm sure.

I subscribed to your page not to long ago and it's nothing but gold ever sense. You've not only only re-sparked my fire but boosted my confidence to continue in the style I like while learning new things. I never knew who this guy was but always enjoyed his work from Akira to flcl and the close styles in gurren lagann. Please keep it up on all fronts, you're awesome.

I would love a series like this!

This is really cool, would be happy to see more of this kind of thing.

Love it. It's kind of what Channel Criswell does but for animators - watched it over and over again and thanks for collecting the material to edit such a nice vid!

You've gained a subscribe from me today. I've loved Ohira for a long time and its great to see someone breaking down his style like this. Please make this a series.

awesoooooome !!! I loove Sakuga analyses

Styles like his is why I love animation

This is amazing, i really liked this kind of video, i've been drawing for a while now and just jumped into animation and it's kindda hard to understand what makes a great animation or who should i be looking up to. I would really like to see more videos like this keep it up :D

Can you do more of Those animation breakdowns pls? :)

Nice breakdown. I was always fond of the Animatrix Kid story style since it was different in comparison to things I was use to at the time that it came out, so it's nice to see that style explored.

really good video. If you can I want the next videos to be deep breakdown of the animation, like taking a 3 seconds animation and go through it frame by frame to capture what he is doing in each of them and their timing

very refreshing. His work on FLCL and Space Dandy is amazing. Thanks for the post

damn this is the best KZfaq channel hands down

Really interesting breakdown! Thanks a lot. His Animatrix video blew me away when I saw it.

can you do more study videos like this its nice to see how you learn from other animators and what to look for

Awesome vid! Will be watching more of your stuff :D

Yes more of this

Learning about the animator and the animation breakdown was really interesting. 😁

I really enjoyed this video and I would love it if you did more like these! I love learning about prominent figures in animation, and the breakdown + the tips were really great and motivating!

Thank you for this soooo much

How is this video format not a thing yet?? I absolutely love it! Should you be taking requests, I'd like to be lessons about Ryo Chimo

Amazing!

Yaaay! Thanks for this, Howard! :D

keep doing these, this was great, I really enjoyed it

Love these type of vid, please continue!

I love it.

Great video, Animatrix is an awesome film to pick apart...im trying to get into more of doing animation myself, but if you have any more great Anime animators or animators in general to showcase it would be great and a awesome add on to your show every once in a while...keep up the good work. Peace.

This dude is insane!!!!

😄yay a new video

I don't get why people don't like more unique and abstract animators like him.

Personally, I like this video analysis style of video. I think it'd be interesting if you were to plug in some of these animations and you were to trace it (with no fills), but the main portion that you're studying is in red. Then you play back the animation and you and we can probably get more out of the video. This particular animator definitely isn't my personal favorite because often times he keeps the details but loses the character... in that you can't even recognize who's doing what. Eventually, his characters wind up looking like balloon people, or it's as if he forgets the anatomy or forces perspective that doesn't really work well but he leaves it in there and it doesn't wind up looking very good... it comes off as sloppy. And it's as if he draws a bunch of roughs, adds details to them, but never does a cleanup stage and then publishes it. The transparency blur is a cool effect. I like how he incorporated it into kid's clothing folds so that it looked a bit more natural. But overall... this portion of the Animatrix wound up being my least favorite. These days, we're working with vector programs, and though many of this guy's philosophies on animated motion can be implemented, getting work as an animator can be very difficult. Even more difficult when these vectors are causing the animations to be more and more crisp. That make sense? I like what he did with Space Dandy... but it comes off as an acid trip. I suppose that works well in the weird pseudo intellectual hippy style of Dandy's story telling, but it's off putting a bit. It also looks like it instantly switched from being vector to raster in a split second. And though you want your work to stand out, you want it to stand out as quality that's already established as the style of the animation. You don't want to just have a 2 to 3 minute segment that feels like "hey this is a completely different cartoon from the animation you were watching and the rest of the animation afterward. This guy's "style" suffers from what you don't want. I started my adult life doing stone masonry. One of the most difficult things about authentic stone masonry is that right now we have this fabricated stone in the market that doesn't pay well, is super cheap but can quickly be made to look beyond perfect. This means that a traditional stone mason needs to work twice as fast and twice as hard to get the same effect that you would from fabricated stone or you won't be able to make it as a traditional stone mason. The same rule pretty much applies in animation now dealing with vector drawings. I'd like to see more of these types of videos. It'd also be more interesting if more time could be spent on the animator (which also means more subject matter for you to cover with more depth.)

Omg the bucket head immediately got me hyped

So he's the animator of akira?....... No wonder i sensed it was him when I saw the first animation. Akira was so realistic in the characters movement, although some of the background were not that perfect, but there's a bounce he adds to the characters movement that just kinda makes it achieve a kind of perfection

moreeeee

where do i find the video of Jordan by Buckethead playing over this man's scenes

can u do ryo timo? i love his work on noein fukurou vs karasu

I liked this, very interesting. I'd like to see one on yoshimichi kameda

I'm getting my Wacom tablet in 3 days so I can start stick and after full body animations, any tips for installing drivers and body proportions and possibly a link? Thanks

is this dude coming back for the new season of flcl?

Does anyone know what softwarenI can use to slow down artist animation frame by frame for study?

I spent most of my time thinking I'm never be a good animator unless I know how to draw well...at least I got in to 3D animator ...but I've ALWAYS wanna try to do some awesome 2D animation....

Hey Howard what's your opinion on cassette girl.

Awesome video! You think u can make one of these about Norio Matsumoto, please?

I always wanted to know what software do they use to animate In studios. great video :D

What is that one with the skateboard?

I love your videos but I can't animate

So, I just posted me showcasing sort of a behind the scenes of my first animation before it's actually finished, if you'd like to check it out, it's here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbaRfbJ9qdC8h4k.html

Hey... kind of off topic. But as someone that uses flash, vs what I'm using, it'd be interesting to get your perspective on this. I'm participating in a Opentoonz subreddit and this is a struggle I'm having: www.reddit.com/r/OpenToonz/comments/5foge5/laggy_process/

i need someone to anime my story

the point is hes drawing is look live :/

That’s actually not Wanwa the Doggy

he never use smear effects

Okay. Thats not wanwa the doggy. You need to know.

Do you know the reasons why his style doesn't fit with anime productions and got him fired? He sounds like a rebel and I would really like to know

im just gonna come out and say it. What the HECK does Sakuya mean?

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