Just...amazing. You are totally right with the Imai healty growth in the industry compared to how it is impossible to do nowadays with the PA's only calling for layout.

Time to watch another manly man video

If i had a nickel for Indian yt channels that focuse on the japanese Animation industry,i would have 2 thats not much but weird that happened twice

Good overview overall, I also would emphasize however that there are places where there is a focus on integrating new animators - KyoAni and Ufo's animation schools, the MAPPA x Nakayama recruitment project, etc so not the entire industry is doomed but it might eventually collapse in some areas and turn into something pretty ugly. We might be seeing more RWBY's soon with how many projects A-1 is carrying right now, and I would prefer not because RWBY is really awful. It's not only the disconnect between LO (Layout) and the final product, the CGI/Composite is ugly, and the art direction is the worst I've seen so far. There are scenes where you can see how they awfully edited some assets together to somehow create a background because they lack assets. This had probably worse pre-production than some MAPPA works like GoH, and I don't say this lightly. And well, the actual production wasn't better. To name some positives, though, I learned a lot more about LO and what to avoid because all the accumulating problems caused APs and experienced Webgens to speak about the matter. I know, pretty selfish thing to say. It's also good that you emphasized how horrible it actually is that LO and KA is seperated. In the early day it often was a good thing, because the layout animator was able to craft a cohesive and immersive world by coordinating the production with the layouts, and when layouts were handed to the animators it had its own share of benefits; But now that there is another disconnect without respect for LO as a production step whatsoever we now have a big jumbling mess and no matter how good the AD and ED is in cases like RWBY they cannot possibly keep up with all the workload to correct it, making the product not only underwhelming but just bad. And frankly... as someone who wants to work as an animator one day it did shatter some worldviews. Personally I just try to improve as much as I can, also working on a fan project now which is fun and can help me getting a better unterstanding of the pipeline, I hope. For other animators who do LO, the most important thing I learned recently: 1. Know what you can do, and what fits the scene, don't be too ambitious. That also applies to whether you accept work or not. 2. Don't make too many keyframes, note how many in-betweens you eventually want and if you also have in-betweens in your LO (which you really don't need) then make it clear what the keyframes are. So that the animation director can focus on those frames for correcting, and doesn't get, like, 180 "keyframes". That also applies to obvious movement, like, any KA or in-between artist knows how to animate someone sitting down, no need to make 5 keyframes for that, 2 suffice. It also helps to mark if you have impact frames, or other special stuff. I saw a layout once which was pretty well-transitioned (for Boruto) but the LO artist noted that they didn't adapt his impact frame, prob because he didn't note it was one and they were clueless. 3. If an AP approaches you to do LO only, usually running away is prob not a bad decision honestly ^^' Layouts transitioned to the point where they also convey the movement very clearly, and while has upsides because the LO artist conveys his vision stronger this way, if done wrong it can cause consecutive issues down the pipeline, so that is always a problem... If you want to animate however, don't let that discourage you! Anime is all about passion, and even with a broken system it's carried by pure passion, and if you want to animate feel free to do so. We also have a raise in fan projects and indie projects I feel, which is great.

Great video as always 👍 Thorough analysis and simple, easy to grasp explanations. It's really sad to see how these passionate animators are being exploited and aren't able to achieve their vision

9:50 @morikai3 said that happened with him multiple times, and he doesn't even pretend to be an animator, so that would absolutely work

great video brother!, gonna share this ! highly informative!

I wish everyone could see this video you summed it up in an amazing way good shit, and hope your new job is going well brother

Amazing video, as someone who is young (just 13) and who is passionate in animation, i really admire your passion and drive for the medium.

Another great video but I miss your animation analysis videos. I would really like to watch you breaking down the animation of new cyberpunk edgerunners show and one Chinese show Fog Hill of 5 elements which has one of the best fights ever.

really interesting dive into how easily ideas get lost in translation, and more importantly how often it can and does happen

Great video.

Great video

Man your content is just pure gold, always look forward to your videos. Also anyone who likes these kind of videos,you should also check PROBABLY PRETENTIOUS. He also makes similar content.

It's great to see this kind of information on video format, that's concise and straight to the point, more people that consider themselves enjoyers of animation need to see this. By the way, would you make a video about kyoto animation in the future? if not then would you at least put them on the same pedestal as Ufotable as far as work ethic goes, or do they have severe issues of their own in your perspective?

Underrated hai ye shreeman! 🙌🏻👍🏻

900th subscriber. ;)

i know this might be a little off-topic but do you happen to know how many teams A-1 pictures has? because they have like 9 shows coming out probably before 2024 and engage kiss and lycoris recoil recently stopped airing, knowing the current state of anime they finished the last episodes for those shows like 2-3 weeks ago and now they have 8 shows on their plate: sao movie 2, kagami no kojou, fate/strange fake, love is war movie (not official yet but probably), nier:automata, mashle, solo leveling, eisen flügel. does this mean some of these will probably get the same treatment like the one you describe or even the majority due to lack of time or lack of resources?

great video,i disagree on the donghua part,majority of chinese animations are 3d and so many of them are getting yearly scedules (48-54 eps) and this will only continue to grow from here on as the donghua industry had grown exponentially in just a small time period but i might agree on the 2d sides of things if that's what you meant by that statement. 2d drawing is a very hard skill even though i draw on my tablet and even with the help of the digital art it's still super super hard but in 3d animation scence (china>japan)

i liked this video

Would u do a video detailing what went wrong with wonder egg priority?

I want to like the video but it’s at 69 nice. I don’t have the strength my friend. Edit: I’ll subscribe 😊

What is the difference between layouts and key animation

I think you really hate JJK. LOL 😂 Great video as always, btw. Another W.

Hi there! Love your videos btw. Speaking of which... Would you make another reaction to Chainsaw Man's fourth trailer that was uploaded by MAPPA where they reveal some additional cast members and the theme song?

Great timming lol Mappa just announced JJK S02 which is 2 cour. Looks like the put the resources in JJK seeing Hells Paradise was postponed and CSm is just 12 episodes. And everyone has forgotten that AOt is still left😂

Would you do a bleach trailer analysis

The way you praise ufotable! It feels wrong that Japan's favorite studio is taking chinese money Can something good come out of that?