Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Art of Akira exibit


Those single cels are pretty slick.



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4 comments:

Lungclops said...

Why, at 24 FPS, do the characters' faces still look about as frozen as in any cheap anime?

February 4, 2010 at 5:33 AM
Galspanic said...

Because you are infected with Bluthitis.

February 4, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Lungclops said...

Don't blame the victim.

February 4, 2010 at 1:36 PM
Mr. Pony said...

You know, it's been a while since I've seen Akira, but I do remember some of those moments where the extra frames really show--Like when Tetsuo starts to really turn into a gloppy monster. While these scenes (shots, really) are very cool, I actually find them quite distracting. Counter to what you might think, the extra frames add up to a drop in the overall reality, at least in my mind. With a lower frame-rate, your brain fills in the details. It turns out your brain is a better animator than most animators, and if you're making up the stuff in between the frames, then you kind of automatically believe it. The high frame-rate means a low margin for error, too--although the super-detailed work in Akira is kind of perfect. Still, it busts the illusion pretty good.

I mean, I dunno. There's a trade off. It's fucking cool, but it takes you right out of it, especially when they revert back from awesome-vision to regular-vision (which I seem to remember Akira doing, 24 frames or not).

February 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM

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