Same wfffff talk about disturbing

its ight

That nigga robin in heavenly delusion TRIPPING

its fun but not for the weak aka 3D haters

yeah i noticed that lol, i don’t mind 3D animation as long as it’s done well. only watched like 2 episodes before i fell asleep, but it seems interesting so i’ma keep watching.

Skip to Loafer, Mashle, Kubo, Kamikatsu and Gundam Witch served on the binge plate, time to feast

Trying to get my friend who hasn’t watched anime since early/mid 2000’s to watch JJK and DS. Would y’all say DS=Inuyasha/Rurouni Kenshin and JJK=Yu Yu Hakusho are good comparisons to someone like my friend who isn’t up to date on anime?

black clover movie was good

no for the latter

I’m struggling to find comparisons for them
YYH was the first thing I thought of that I know they’ve seen that might have a remotely similar story. They asked me how DS and JJK are compared to DBZ, so that’s where I’m at.

U way overselling DS lol

why would you try to ruin his life like that

Why the generic bland stuff?

Issa weaning process, fam. I’m limited to what they’ve watched

is this the part where i complain about punch kick shows and ask why this dude cant be recommended shows from other genres that they enjoy in live-action tv and film

Animator Spotlight: Makiko Futaki

All gifs in order
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Angel’s Egg (1985)
Castle in The Sky (1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Akira (1988)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Only Yesterday (1991)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Pom Poko (1994)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Spirited Away (2001)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Ponyo (2008)
The Wind Rises (2013)
When Marnie was There (2014)

Happy Birthday to Makiko Futaki. This month is full of a ton of Ghibli animator’s birthdays. Katsuya Kondo, Shinji Otsuka, Megumi Kagawa, and Kenichi Konishi were all born this month, and though all of those four are still with us in the flesh, Futaki sadly isn’t. Her dedication and time at Ghibli was one of the longest, only rivaled by studio early birds like Megumi Kagawa and Kitaro Kousaka. Futaki like most of the core Ghibli artists was versatile. She could carry a decent amount of expressive character acting cuts doing very photorealistic close up shots and was placed on important scenes, but it was her effects work that pushed everything to extremes, even making animators like Masaaki Endo look like copy paper. Her animation was breathtaking, with a personal emphasis on capturing the harmony of nature, which lead her to be placed on many scenes with plants and animals. Futaki knew exactly what directors like Miyazaki and Takahata wanted, and always delivered on every front.

Futaki had an interest in animation as a young kid and decided in her early career to enroll at Department of Fine Arts at Aichi University of Education. Her heavily detailed style lead her to work on cine-calligraphy, a technique invented by Norman McLaren where images would be scratched and etched into film stock. Futaki would animate on 8-millimeter film to achieve this. Apparently there are reports that she somewhat damaged her eyesight making the films as trying the technique does involve one viewing the film stock under a bright light.

Futaki would join Telecom around the late 70s as a second-year student and would do in-between animation on Hayao Miyazaki’s The Castle of Cagliostro, a film miraculously finished in 8 months. A few years later she’d work on Jarinko Chie a film directed by Isao Takahata. Takahata was so impressed with her work that would get her recruited by Miyazaki for 1984’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

On Nausicaa Futaki was placed on a very important scene with the titular hero Nasusicaa trying to save a struggling baby Ohmu from going into the toxic lake sakugabooru.com/post/show/38463\. There is very strong, and dramatic character acting here with a great scene of Nausicaa trying to get up and limping, which would naturally happen after she crashed her wind scooter. The second is the actual struggle of her pushing back the Ohmu which is so well done and is captured with a lot of pathos and courage with Nausicaa. Miyazaki had this to say about the scene

“In Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Futaki-san portrayed the encounter between the injured Nausicaa and the offsprings of the royal Ohmu in the sandbar scene of the acid lake, as if Ms. Futaki himself shared the pain…Perhaps she is a person who can 'feel' the texture of the hard instep of the prince Ohmu that touches the body of Nausicaa and the body temperature that is transmitted. I think the feature of Ms. Futaki's animation is that it tries to express not only the visual sense but also the tactile sense.”

The following months Futaki would continue her role as a Telecom freelancer, and would go to work on Sherlock Hound and Night on the Galactic Road but most importantly the next year on Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg.

The KA staff on this film OVA is a bit unusual despite being an early Studio Deen composed primarily of freelancers from Nausicaa such as Masaaki Endo, Kitaro Kousaka, and Hideaki Anno (he did layouts). Two future Ghibli animators Toshio Kawaguchi and Shinji Otsuka joined the fray as well. This would also begin the inclusion of long time Oshii collaborator Toyoaki Emura, and future Evangelion character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. The film has subtly complex character designs by later Final Fantasy designer Yoshitaka Amano, making animation seemingly very difficult. The staff was up to the challenge though with Futaki handling up to 45 cuts throughout, with the water illusion scene being the most complex sakugabooru.com/post/show/171497\. Futaki at the time was no stranger to detailed animation, but this was going somewhat beyond what she could do. The hair animation is fluid and constantly oscillating with one of her single keyframes showcasing how much detail she truly put in.

Yes in-between animation did help, but without her foundation the scene would not look like this at all

full film

Next year on Laputa we get more of a fully active role on Ghibli’s first feature film.

With a wonderful steampunk laden aesthetic and one of Miyazaki’s best fantasy worlds what did Futaki animate? The animals of course. She was really great at animating animals realistically, even the bizarre Miyazaki creatures that you don’t see in real life.

For the animals that were based in real life, Futaki was one of the most three dimensional animators with the creatures but her really captivating attention to how many she can draw is great especially in the scene with the meeting between the two leads near the start of the film sakugabooru.com/post/show/7863 peak character acting and you can tell she used reference footage.

1987 she’d do some unidentified work on Twilight Q, Wings of Honneamise, and Devilman. As for 1988, she did two major films with My Neighbor Totoro and Akira. On Totoro we get more animal animation such as her animating tadpoles sakugabooru.com/post/show/184416\. Some corn plant animation sakugabooru.com/post/show/28114, and there also some great scenes of Mei chasing the forest spirits, the best scene however is the seed growth scene. Animating alongside Shinji Otsuka at the start, and another gone from this world legend Yoshinori Kanada the middle portion is handled by Futaki with some insanely detailed tree growing effects sakugabooru.com/post/show/16328\. In a twitter note from a Ghibli account, Futaki almost animated leaves falling from the tree while it was growing but did not since it would have caused more noise in the cut.

For Akira, Futaki was in charge of Tetsuo’s monstrous rampage in the stadium. Once again we are treated to Otsuka -> Futaki -> Kanada order which could just be a coincidence, but only speaks to the insane talent of the three at the time. Futaki’s effects are so dense and rich here, the first cut even has two layers of effects, and the second the entire frame is moving sakugabooru.com/post/show/14245.

The amount of movies Miyazaki was putting out during this time was staggering and resulted in the next film Kiki’s Delivery Service being worked on right after Totoro’s production wrapped. Futaki was assigned to more animal scenes this time, although she did a fair bit of character acting animating the opening scenes of the film sakugabooru.com/post/show/118531\. We get more great scenes of birds like on Laputa sakugabooru.com/post/show/16238 and yet again Futaki is proceeded by Kanada in a following scene.