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Zach | Bluesky

Transcript4 Panel Comic

Panel 1: an Apple Tree saying “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”

Panel 2: an Apple saying “Anime is trash”

Panel 3: the tree winds up…

Panel 4: …and throws the apple as far as possible with a FWOoOSH

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What makes you think animation has low barrier to entry lol, it takes a large team of skilled artists to make, most of whom are underpaid and overworked, and it takes time to hone these skills. The reason most media is garbage is that studios want to make low cost low risk content, and they want to make lots off it in the hopes that if even one or two become viral hits then they can coast on the profit from that while taking losses on the others, instead of taking big bets on an anime that is beyond the cliched norms and that might cost more time and money to make.

[–] adjectivenoun@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A lot of the traditional anime tropes exist explicitly to lower the cost of production. The artists may be skilled, but there's a reason you see a lot of still frames where only the character's mouth moves and stuff like that. It was necessary in the 90's. Now it's what you expect from the genre.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

When I say tropes I mean storytelling tropes not animation techniques, which I know a bunch of them are for cost and time saving purposes

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Exactly; the issue is that writing and animating are separate concerns.

So if an anime studio wants to pump out 30 Isekai, they NEED 30 animators working 24/7. But a genius writer? Meh, that’s optional.

So he’s right that writing is low barrier - and then it sucks when I see fantastic indie animation work on YouTube and think “I almost think I could’ve written and VA’d this better by myself”.