I agree with Woolie, I love seeing creative parallax animation. Being a kid and watching the Disney short that explained how early parallax animation was achieved through painted glass layers being moved in front of a camera was like watching a wizard explain how magic worked.
David Productions has some really good use of sound design with JoJo. The SFX for "The World", "Bites The Dust" and "King Crimson" are all top notch and memorable, but even stuff like sound used to demonstrate someone getting hit by Star Platinum will sound like they're being blasted by a gun.
I love the SFX David Productions did with Fire Force too. From the Benimaru Bass Drop to actually using the 'bruh' meme as a competent sound effect, DP are amazing with sound design.
I love it when a strike from a melee blow is conveyed with the power of a firearm. The most obvious way is to make the sfx a gun, but what I like too is: • if the visual "hitspark" looks like a line piercing through the target • a backblow effect, as if the strike had recoil and/or the victim gained an "exit wound"
I love it when animation starts going "backwards" to black and white/sketch, bonus points if the color is drained gradually, over a little time. It's mostly used when a character is completly disintigrated, or somebody uses their strongest attack, or a bomb goes off. Sakugabooru probably has a name for that. Honorable mentions are king kittan, one scene from black clover, mob psycho did it too and when luffy hit that tenryuubito.
I'm glad animators know how impactful those kind of moments are so they try (TRY) to not overuse it. Even Adventure Time did it once, and they saved it for the final episode
I know it's kinda cliche but syncing visuals with the audio is still top tier. I remember watching Interestellar5555 as a kid and seeing the lights on the spaceship pulsating with the beat...I wasn't the same after that
When swords clash and they get into the test of strength, and this sizzling, vibrating metal sound plays, I fucking _splatoon_ all over myself. 4:29 Alfred Hitchcock tells us that "It's not the gunshot, it's the instant before it"
Guilty Gear Xrd uses a simillar technique that's even cooler visually, but it's so rare you'll likely only see it once. Very awesome stuff for both games.
Tekken 8's version of this is interesting, I think. Instead of just the low-pass filter and flanging, they accompany it with a distinctive sound effect combining a shine with a **mean** bass drop, being just one of many elements in T8 made to enhance the player and spectator experience alike.
Woolie said it in the Shadow Of Colossus LP but Reverse reverb will always get me that or a gasp into complete silence into a sick finisher or kill (Aka I WON'T MISS or Judgment Nut)
I'm also a sucker for that dramatic pause where everything cuts out, to be followed by whatever significant thing that makes you go wild. Godzilla Minus One recently had that, near the end. He rises up from the ocean and starts charging that breath up. It goes completely silent as it shifts from one set of characters to the next, on each ship, looking like they all know they've failed, that they're about to die. Then you see the plane appear, you hear that engine, and the epic music starts blasting as you see the look of determination on Koichi's face, as he prepares to ram it. It's fucking amazing, I love that type of shit so much.
Any multiple shadow effect (alpha supers) Japanese laser sweep *pause* line of explosions When a “AT Field”/energy shield is blocking something and you see the energy be being disbursed (EVA plenty of times, all might and Deku double Detroit Smash being blocked, even the robot in Detroit literally breaking through his programming.) When someone is exuding so much power that the artwork becomes all scratchy and distorted. (All might us of smash, Mob psycho does it a lot too! Broly turning the World green, then shrinking it down to a his fist for a ki blast. Any flash step
One of my favorite animation and art effects is when you have a really scary/powerful character in frame, their face is hidden within a shadow, and the only features you can really make out are little red or white dots for the eyes. There's a still frame of Dio standing on a street lamp from the stardust crusaders OVA that does this. Also The Beast from Over the Garden Wall has this for the entire show.
Personally, I'm always a huge fan of match cuts. Especially ones where your match cutting a really happy moment to a dramatic gut punch punctuated by total silence. The immediate contrast is always great.
Cutting animations to convey speed or suddenness. Haikyuu, of all things, has my favorite example where a character hits this sick ass serve and every minute detail of his movement is captured as he hits this jump serve, but when the camera cuts THE BALL HAS ALREADY HIT THE GROUND on the other side of the court.
for me it's gotta be 3d camera movement like in in akira or mob psycho where they redraw the background every frame. Character can just be standing there but it's the coolest shit ever
For me in the recent cases of [PAUSE] HYPE, it was the [PAUSE] in Godzilla Minus One's Atomic Breath scene. Visual spoiler: Just that HUGE blue charge up with the scales of Godzilla sticking out one by one. All from the tail... up to the snout... People watch in awe and terror... He charges...! There it is!!! And SHOOTS a thin, laserfocused beam into the distance. PEW! ... [PAUSE] ... N U C L E A R E X P L O S I O N M U S H R O O M C L O U D W I N D O F D E A T H HEAR HIM ROAR BLACK RAIN SHALL PAVE HIS WAY THE CRUEL GOD COMETH
Whenever a mecha combine is the most hype moment ever for example jeeg combine, guren lagan, getter robo etc. just look at jeeg opening anime is the most hype ever
Adding onto the silence before a big explosion or cannon fire, i think what I really enjoy is that far off distance shot from the impact where you only see it pop off but you do hear and see the after shock travel several if not dozens of miles towards the camera. Sometimes they even do that outer space perspective shot and those can be fun too
Are you talking about Star Wars? "Very cool moment" and "breaks continuity and logic" are two statements that can exist at the same time. It's the sort of thing you go "That was awesome!" then 10 minutes later you start pondering if that might have been an *sspull.
@leithaziz2716 that's kinda what I said though? "Context matters, since braking continuity/lore can ruin it" is referring to said "cool" moments, after all, what's the point of your awesome/badass/cool scene if a huge chunk of the audience walks away thinking it was stupid and lame after the gut reaction is over(if not right away if they're the sort to take lore seriously)
I think my favorite thing is when space is accurately depicted as oppressively silent. Or just generally when silence is treated as its own thing, like the example woolie provided. Absence of sound can be just as impactful as its presence.
My favorite is also the eye glass adjustment. It's such a simple manner but anime made it into the most devious visual cue that this character is about to drop a bombshell
That original series of FMA has some amazing scenes that Brotherhood sometimes improved on, but some of the OG series moments (music and animation included) are burned into my head. The AKFG Rewrite track on top of that sick OP animation is one of them. BONES studio were on fire back in the day, they had a lot of skilled animators and directors that are still veterans in the industry as freelance teams that move about to MAPPA, Ufotable, I.G., Gainax etc.
One of the best ones for me in recent memory, goes to AC7's "Arsenal Bird" fight. Specifically "Daredevil's Drop". Seeing the shield drop, followed by the amazing vocals kick in, as you lock on and unleash hell on the winged beast.
4:31 my favorite version of that is fighting safi jiva ultimate attack in monster hunter world. when its building up attack you have to find cover and sometimes you're just too far to reach it soo when the audio sound stop it gives you a "you done fucked up" feeling before the explosion obliterate you into bits
Incredibly specific, but as trash as the move is, Charizard's Flare Blitz in Smash has a very loud, unique *WINK* sound effect that hits so hard every single time. It's a high risk/ridiculous reward move and that start-up really sells it as a "Ooh here's a BIG ONE" kind of attack.
A super neat animation trick was used in Rise up, Kemono Michi, a show about pro wrestling. In one scene the screen is split to show the two fighters, they start to do their attack, and as the movement is happening the screen split rotates while camera moves out to show the complete attack connecting.
not much from the sequel trilogy left a mark on me, and for how conceptually weird it was, the lightspeed ram from TLJ had some of the sickest visuals and sound design in all of Star Wars.
I agree with Woolie, I love seeing creative parallax animation. Being a kid and watching the Disney short that explained how early parallax animation was achieved through painted glass layers being moved in front of a camera was like watching a wizard explain how magic worked.
David Productions has some really good use of sound design with JoJo. The SFX for "The World", "Bites The Dust" and "King Crimson" are all top notch and memorable, but even stuff like sound used to demonstrate someone getting hit by Star Platinum will sound like they're being blasted by a gun.
I love the SFX David Productions did with Fire Force too. From the Benimaru Bass Drop to actually using the 'bruh' meme as a competent sound effect, DP are amazing with sound design.
I love it when a strike from a melee blow is conveyed with the power of a firearm.
The most obvious way is to make the sfx a gun, but what I like too is:
• if the visual "hitspark" looks like a line piercing through the target
• a backblow effect, as if the strike had recoil and/or the victim gained an "exit wound"
I love it when animation starts going "backwards" to black and white/sketch, bonus points if the color is drained gradually, over a little time. It's mostly used when a character is completly disintigrated, or somebody uses their strongest attack, or a bomb goes off. Sakugabooru probably has a name for that. Honorable mentions are king kittan, one scene from black clover, mob psycho did it too and when luffy hit that tenryuubito.
the many episodes of "The Show is Losing its Budget" in cartoons are also real strong, just turns into story boards or the VAs in the booth
I'm glad animators know how impactful those kind of moments are so they try (TRY) to not overuse it. Even Adventure Time did it once, and they saved it for the final episode
Gundam uses shots like that sometimes and it always hits hard
I know it's kinda cliche but syncing visuals with the audio is still top tier.
I remember watching Interestellar5555 as a kid and seeing the lights on the spaceship pulsating with the beat...I wasn't the same after that
Hi-Fi Rush is such a treat as an artpiece because of that.
Symphogear basically had me at gunpoint when they started singing mid fight.
Sounds like you'd love baby driver.
When swords clash and they get into the test of strength, and this sizzling, vibrating metal sound plays, I fucking _splatoon_ all over myself.
4:29 Alfred Hitchcock tells us that "It's not the gunshot, it's the instant before it"
My fav is Tekken doing the slow mo for a few frames where all the sound gets muffled and then it cranks it right back up after the hit.
How do you like a comment more than once
Guilty Gear Xrd uses a simillar technique that's even cooler visually, but it's so rare you'll likely only see it once. Very awesome stuff for both games.
@@leithaziz2716 you have a link to it? Would love to see it.
@@SALILJKMAN Sorry, no. It has a name, but I just call it round end slowmo.
Tekken 8's version of this is interesting, I think. Instead of just the low-pass filter and flanging, they accompany it with a distinctive sound effect combining a shine with a **mean** bass drop, being just one of many elements in T8 made to enhance the player and spectator experience alike.
Gotta love the screen shattering/slashing effects on super moves. Vergil, Thordan, etc.
Woolie said it in the Shadow Of Colossus LP but Reverse reverb will always get me that or a gasp into complete silence into a sick finisher or kill (Aka I WON'T MISS or Judgment Nut)
I'm also a sucker for that dramatic pause where everything cuts out, to be followed by whatever significant thing that makes you go wild.
Godzilla Minus One recently had that, near the end. He rises up from the ocean and starts charging that breath up. It goes completely silent as it shifts from one set of characters to the next, on each ship, looking like they all know they've failed, that they're about to die. Then you see the plane appear, you hear that engine, and the epic music starts blasting as you see the look of determination on Koichi's face, as he prepares to ram it. It's fucking amazing, I love that type of shit so much.
Any multiple shadow effect (alpha supers)
Japanese laser sweep *pause* line of explosions
When a “AT Field”/energy shield is blocking something and you see the energy be being disbursed (EVA plenty of times, all might and Deku double Detroit Smash being blocked, even the robot in Detroit literally breaking through his programming.)
When someone is exuding so much power that the artwork becomes all scratchy and distorted. (All might us of smash, Mob psycho does it a lot too!
Broly turning the World green, then shrinking it down to a his fist for a ki blast.
Any flash step
One of my favorite animation and art effects is when you have a really scary/powerful character in frame, their face is hidden within a shadow, and the only features you can really make out are little red or white dots for the eyes.
There's a still frame of Dio standing on a street lamp from the stardust crusaders OVA that does this. Also The Beast from Over the Garden Wall has this for the entire show.
I WON'T MISS.
RUSTYYYYYYYY
Personally, I'm always a huge fan of match cuts. Especially ones where your match cutting a really happy moment to a dramatic gut punch punctuated by total silence. The immediate contrast is always great.
JJK fans know what's up
Nothing can beat a good match cut and it can have a huge emotional impact with the right context
Mob Psycho 100 is a veritable smorgasbord of really cool visual and audio styles and techniques.
Cutting animations to convey speed or suddenness.
Haikyuu, of all things, has my favorite example where a character hits this sick ass serve and every minute detail of his movement is captured as he hits this jump serve, but when the camera cuts THE BALL HAS ALREADY HIT THE GROUND on the other side of the court.
for me it's gotta be 3d camera movement like in in akira or mob psycho where they redraw the background every frame. Character can just be standing there but it's the coolest shit ever
For me in the recent cases of [PAUSE] HYPE, it was the [PAUSE] in Godzilla Minus One's Atomic Breath scene.
Visual spoiler:
Just that HUGE blue charge up with the scales of Godzilla sticking out one by one.
All from the tail... up to the snout...
People watch in awe and terror...
He charges...!
There it is!!!
And SHOOTS a thin, laserfocused beam into the distance.
PEW!
...
[PAUSE]
...
N U C L E A R E X P L O S I O N
M U S H R O O M C L O U D
W I N D O F D E A T H
HEAR HIM ROAR
BLACK RAIN SHALL PAVE HIS WAY
THE CRUEL GOD COMETH
That's a good one but why did I read that excerpt like a Shiro sagisu back chorus?!
@@gent.hearth4206 because in another universe, it is
Silent pauses before a loud boom will always get me hype. Im a huge mark for that use of sound like "ooh, wait a minute. Now heres your cheese"
Whenever a mecha combine is the most hype moment ever for example jeeg combine, guren lagan, getter robo etc. just look at jeeg opening anime is the most hype ever
Adding onto the silence before a big explosion or cannon fire, i think what I really enjoy is that far off distance shot from the impact where you only see it pop off but you do hear and see the after shock travel several if not dozens of miles towards the camera. Sometimes they even do that outer space perspective shot and those can be fun too
"Lightspeed kamikaze is the coolest."
I'm genuinely at a loss for words. At least we can agree that Rewrite is an awesome op.
No no, he's right, Lightspeed Kamikaze WAS cool as shit, it's just a profoundly retarded scene in context/in universe. The idea on its own is baller.
It looks and sounds very, very cool. It's okay to like that it looks and sounds very, very cool.
@@Admiral_Crunch sure, but at the same time context within canon/lore can ruin such things.
Are you talking about Star Wars?
"Very cool moment" and "breaks continuity and logic" are two statements that can exist at the same time.
It's the sort of thing you go "That was awesome!" then 10 minutes later you start pondering if that might have been an *sspull.
@leithaziz2716 that's kinda what I said though? "Context matters, since braking continuity/lore can ruin it" is referring to said "cool" moments, after all, what's the point of your awesome/badass/cool scene if a huge chunk of the audience walks away thinking it was stupid and lame after the gut reaction is over(if not right away if they're the sort to take lore seriously)
I think my favorite thing is when space is accurately depicted as oppressively silent. Or just generally when silence is treated as its own thing, like the example woolie provided. Absence of sound can be just as impactful as its presence.
Stuff like this is always my jam. It's always the little details that totally rocks my world too.
My favorite is also the eye glass adjustment. It's such a simple manner but anime made it into the most devious visual cue that this character is about to drop a bombshell
That original series of FMA has some amazing scenes that Brotherhood sometimes improved on, but some of the OG series moments (music and animation included) are burned into my head. The AKFG Rewrite track on top of that sick OP animation is one of them. BONES studio were on fire back in the day, they had a lot of skilled animators and directors that are still veterans in the industry as freelance teams that move about to MAPPA, Ufotable, I.G., Gainax etc.
My favorite is when you get a first person POV shot of an enemy fighting the protag. Gundam Thunderbolt did this beautifully
One of the best ones for me in recent memory, goes to AC7's "Arsenal Bird" fight. Specifically "Daredevil's Drop". Seeing the shield drop, followed by the amazing vocals kick in, as you lock on and unleash hell on the winged beast.
The Holden maneuver is the perfect example of that silence
FMA video effect: Parallax - which is a word i learned from the Ghost Song Dev.
4:31 my favorite version of that is fighting safi jiva ultimate attack in monster hunter world. when its building up attack you have to find cover and sometimes you're just too far to reach it soo when the audio sound stop it gives you a "you done fucked up" feeling before the explosion obliterate you into bits
Incredibly specific, but as trash as the move is, Charizard's Flare Blitz in Smash has a very loud, unique *WINK* sound effect that hits so hard every single time. It's a high risk/ridiculous reward move and that start-up really sells it as a "Ooh here's a BIG ONE" kind of attack.
A super neat animation trick was used in Rise up, Kemono Michi, a show about pro wrestling. In one scene the screen is split to show the two fighters, they start to do their attack, and as the movement is happening the screen split rotates while camera moves out to show the complete attack connecting.
I'm a sucker for The World's timestop, that shit is still hype for me.
I SHOULD GET ON THAT ARMORED CORE 6 HUH?
Kamen Rider Geats shushing his own theme song, silence, then "BLADE!"
Characters interrupting theme song will never get old.
FlCl putting manga for as long as they did in the animation. To this day blows my mind they did it again.
not much from the sequel trilogy left a mark on me, and for how conceptually weird it was, the lightspeed ram from TLJ had some of the sickest visuals and sound design in all of Star Wars.
The beam magnum sound.
I still am kinda baffled Woolie never watched FMA:B. Like I understand why, he read the manga, but man. It's so good.
i love a good ensemble cast slow walk, jujutsu kaisen specialz is most recent example
Gility gear strive for me as animation is phenomenal 😊
Still a fan of when displaying a flashback scene, the aspect ratio switches to 4:3. Minor but i always think its neat.
So weird, I just got recommended that song from asian kung fu generation on spotify and thought i recognized it from somewhere!
This may be a dumb question, but where in the world can we find the full show with you two? Been looking for months.
Damn near anything that Zoro does in OnePiece is sick af
I wont Miss
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OG FMA is WAAAAAY better than BRotherhood. dont believe me? re watch nina and alexander. see which version repects the characters
I won't miss is sick, TLJ is still terrible