I had 3 VHS tapes of the Max Fleischer Superman cartoon when I was a kid and I watched them until they broke but I still kept them in their cases and years later I took them apart and fix 'em and got to relive my childhood.
Owl House on Disney does the same thing of spending their entire animation budget in a few carefully chosen scenes and the smoothness and flow of the art really brings you into those scenes.
This was my first Superman and it set my standards for life 😄. My grandmother used to get me VHS's at the Goodwill (a charity/bargain bin store), so I was blessed to grow up with a quality of entertainment that most other kids missed, in the 90's. Then I basically went right into the all of the JL shows from the WB in the 2000's.
Surprised to hear a mention of "your name". It was thw first proper anime i watched outside of studio Ghibly movies and i was absolutely blown away by tbe visuals (it also completely knocks me down every time emotionally) and i was lucky enough to stumble across "weathering with you" in cinemas as it looked just as stunning, if not more so. Absolutely love the kind of animation where every frame could be a wallpaper edit: Also gotta mention "Arcane", love the league lore/world and arcane was absolutely amazing surprise
One of the director's first works is called "Voices of A Distant Star," and it's phenomenal. It's only 25 minutes long... but has a gripping story and fantastic animation... especially once you find out that Makoto Shinkai wrote, directed, and produced the entire thing on his Power Mac G4!
Komi Can't Communicate is a slice of life anime with pretty good animation. The protagonist is almost always drawn without a mouth (because she has severe social anxiety problems, making her too nervous to speak in public), but they still manage to show SO MUCH emotion in her face.
I really liked the Batman of Shanghai shorts they used to show on Cartoon Network back in the day. I remember being a kid and i was comepletely shocked by the animation quality even before i had a concept of how much work went into it.
Can't mention Fleischer Studios quality animation without mentioning the Betty Boop short with a rotoscoped Cab Calloway dancing whilst singing "St. James Infirmary" and the intricate background shots coinciding with the lyrics.
23:22 this part of the discussion reminds me of Martin Mystery, there was something that felt so "off" about their attempt at imitating anime that I just couldn't watch it. The faces especially bugged me.
this might not be an anime, but an example of insane animation in a more literal sense was the way they drew adultswim's Superjail, the innumerable fight scenes are always absurdist-tier violence and insane gore distilled into a minute or two of mind-numbing madness; it always reminded me of the old Spy vs Spy comics from MAD magazine.
The most important thing here is: Even though they asked that price out of spite, they actually used that budget to go far and above what they would have done for the normal price.
I really liked the animation of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. There are, of course, beautifully animated action scenes. Anyone familiar with the movie, even coincidentally, probably knows it from the iconic men in black armor firing lovingly animated MG 42's. But even slower scenes capture it. Two character's holding hands. A guy shuffling through a bag. Men getting out of cars. All of it is money dripping off the screen. It's in the the same vein as Vampire Hunter D or Neo Tokyo: The Running Man. Never the first to be mentioned like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, or Cowboy Bebop, but still up there as one of the greats.
The same level of care is given to action sequences and laid back humdrum of everyday life. Stuff like that can't really be done without budgets larger than Dwayne Johnson's ego, but when it does happen it's fucking awesome.
I just want to say the final 4 episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender. The budget was *all* there for the Zuko v Azula Agni Kai. The Fire Lord v Avatar Aang. Even Suki, Sokka, and Toph taking out the blimps. It's not the apex of animation, but it is definitely one of those "here we go. Put in all the budget we need" moments.
Not anime anime and pretty well known but, in the spirit of top tier animations, the Tie Fighter short by otaking is still one the most awesome pieces of animation I've seen in recent memory.
I'm fast approaching my 50's and I grew up watching the Popeye and Superman reruns. I still watch them now. But I only ever saw Gulliver's travels once on T.V . It was a master piece.
There was one scene in the Heavy metal movie that still impresses me to this day. It's a shot near the end of the film where the protagonist of the current story is flying over this canyon and the camera pans around them as they're flying and you can see all the detail of the canyon below them as the viewpoint continually changes. Very impressive
I always really liked the animation of the various Popeye shorts and short films from the 30s and 40s. My favorite was from the Popeye meets Sinbad the Sailor short film. The final fight, and especially after Popeye eats the spinach, is unironically one of my favorite fight scenes in animation.
I grew up with DVD collections of old cartoons, and this was my introduction to Superman! I was 4 when I first watched it, in my 20s now and I still remember him fighting a dinosaur!
My wife and I saw this movie just last week and was really impressed at the animation. Being that it’s hand drawn as opposed to computer generated was what made this film refreshing to watch
This video brought back so many good memories of watching those shorts at my grandparents house as a kid. Thank you for reminding me of the good 'ole days, and thank you for the great content as always, keep up the good work
About the molten metal and Superman's cape. In 2019 I was in Singapore. There was a Disney exhibition at the ArtScience Museum. Apart from early drawings and cels, there was a movie showing how they prepared for the lava (Night on Bald Mountain) scene in Fantasia(1940). There was a tank of mud, with air forced through from below, with a bunch of animators making drawings of how the mud reacted when the bubbles burst.
If you're looking for more somewhat obscure amazing animation I can really recommend "Tragedy of man" from 2011, it took over 20 years to make and it really shows on screen!
The OP to Ya Boy Kongming! has some of the smoothest movement I ever seen with some of the dancing, helps that the music is great. Very much an anime version of the Peacemaker intro.
Grew up watching the Fleischer Shorts on DVD and Superman TAS on TV. Definitely was blessed. Your timing is insane because I just re-watched the first season of Superman TAS over the weekend and absolutely loved it. I specifically liked the early episodes where they used rack focusing (like the shot of Lex with Superman behind him in the opening credits).
About having shorts before a film - In Scarborough, the Royal Opera house used to have a 2 picture Saturday matinee and they'd have shorts before the films - Including these Superman shorts. It was such a shame when the place burned down. I miss the old place.
Good call on into the Spiderverse. One of the best animated movies I have seen. I think it is among the best super hero movie of all time, second to only Logan.
One detail I'm surprised wasn't mentioned is that the Fleischer Brothers basically invented the rotoscope and rotoscoping just to make the Superman cartoon look as good as possible.
For a personal favourite for just really nice looking animation, all of the animation for Pink Floyd The Wall and the film adaptation of the same name. It’s full of absolutely massive, immaculately detailed handrawn animation that blends with the music they’ve been put to near seamlessly, with a lot of contorting and morphing into other objects, with each frame of animation for at least one segment taking an entire day of work. There’s also any studio Ghibli film. They’re not doing much that is technically impressive a lot of the time but the sheer detail that goes into them works to create an awe-inspiring and beautiful experience, kind of like clockwork.
When i was a kid we had 2-3 dvds with an assortment of these superman and popeye shorts, i feel like i remember another thing being on them, but i cant remember it to clearly
One example of good and creative animation in what some people consider a "bad" film is Looney Tunes: Back In Action. In short, there is a scene set in the Louvre when Bugs and Daffy are being chased by Elmer Fudd through different famous paintings, and when they enter that painting the animation takes on the art-style of the painter. It's a short but pretty good scene. Now, I like flashy animation as much as the next guy. But what really get's me is when animators do that "little extra" thing that brings character to life and make them seem more alive. After all, that's what animation means. I mean the little details like in Beauty & the Beast when in the beginning of the song "Belle" we see Belle move her hair behind her ear. There's no reason for her to do that. In terms of animation and work it's just extra mileage. But it's such an everyday, mundane thing that, if you've had long enough hair, you've done yourself and it just make Belle seem more alive. Stuff like that, I love it. It's not as flashy as an anime fight, true, but it's still a flex showing that "Yeah, we can give you big musical numbers and cool special effects like the Ball-dance scene, but we're still able to do the mundane stuff too."
One of the greatest anime fights of all time: Kakashi vs Obito from Naruto Shippuden. All theatricality and ott magic goes out the window and we just see 5 minutes of immaculately choreographed and animated hands being thrown
Not going to mention Ghost in the Shell, because EVERYONE knows that, but I really loved Scissor Seven (or Killer Seven) and Jujustu Kaisen and Death Parade
I am using a buddys disney + that is on Australia and I am in America. So it was weird to see a movie called "Zootropolis" because in America its called "Zootopia"
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it but the entirety of gurren lagann is a perfect example of where you want to spend your animation budget. For Western animation seis manos is all so incredible and criminally underrated.
A show i recommend with such cool moments of animation is Cybersix, its done by TMS the same studio who helped on Batman TAS and it just looks amazing, the budget got so high that the creator chose to take a pay cut just so the show could keep looking good cause he loved the show to much to let the animation suffer from getting a budget cut
This is still the version I think of when I think 'animated superman' because it was just so wonderfully simple and clean in it's own way, but still so detailed and fluid. It was like a comic and radio drama blended together.
I'll recommend a now relatively obscure anime from the '80s as a great example of knowing what to use the budget on: Fang of the Sun Dougram. A lot of it is very stilted/stylised low quality (think filler episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam, or Space Battleship Yamato)... and then they have a scene of their giant mecha kicking/punching a walking tank, and you can see where the episode's budget went: on animating exactly what it looks like for a giant metal hand/foot tearing its way through the hull of the enemy vehicle.
In terms of using the whole budget in one scene: Joseph King of Dreams' entire budget seemed to go towards the dream sequences. They're really imaginative and fun.
Fleischer also did Betty Boop, which also holds up. Watch the Snow White short, when Coco the Clown does St. John's Infirmary, it's still such an awesome sequence.
A good, completely brand new series that I would suggest for awesome animation is the new Gundam, Witch of Mercury. The fight scenes there are top tier.
I was looking for an inclusion of ghost in the shell but I think a lot of people didn't see serial experiments Lain and I think the animation there is interesting. Honorable mention to Gargoyles. Regarding that netflix show did you like the art style of Aeon Flux and that Alexander the great show that used similar animation style?
Always gotta recommend Macross: Do You Remember Love, one of the best animated movies from the 80's and hardly ever hear anyone know, let alone mention it.
Im surprised FLCL didnt get an honorable mention at least. I thought everyone knew about that anime and its production value is through the roof, at one point animating in manga and doing crazy 360 stuff long before One Punch Man or Mob Psycho. It has an interesting development story as well and a killer soundtrack from 'the Pillows'. Only 6 episodes, if you haven't watched it, theres practically no reason not to.
i still go back and rewatch Tanjiro v Lower 5 from Demon slayer. the combo between the sun breathing flames and the pink fire from the blood demon art are gorgeous even compared to the newest stuff from later seasons. another is all the final battles from netflix Castlevania and the hand drawn black and white action shots.
I tell you a show I watched which had an animation style that captivated me.. Phantom 2040...that show was so different... It reminded me of aeon flux.
Honestly some of my favorite animation is from the castlevania anime because it’s got some of the most beautiful still image backgrounds and some of the most amazing fights I’ve ever seen
Invincible on Amazon was a great example of this. The art style is consistent for the show but you can tell where they spent the budget on animation. Some scenes the characters move slow and clunky like an episode of South Park, but then there's fight scenes on par with One Punch.
one of my favorite bits of animation comes from My Little Pony of all places. A chaos god fills a cup with chocolate milk but it fills from top of glass to bottom then when he drinks he slurps the glass out from around the milk and throws it off screen as a brick.
I think my favorite example of “blowing your animation budget on one scene” comes from the climax of Steven Universe. SPOILERS FOR STEVEN UNIVERSE!!!!!!! Steven’a gem has been plucked from his body. The gem projects a (seemingly) emotionless copy of Steven. And their reunion is animated so smooth. They both grin and start laughing as they hug and spin and become one again. It’s a beautiful scene.
Anime recommendations: Katsuhiro Otomo Presents - Memories. Three short stories, each animated in their own style. Very cool Science Fiction short stories and I love the animation. Appleseed is a very cool set of films and I don't hear it mentioned often, though it has its flaws. Millennium Actress is an anime I want everyone to know about, even my non-anime fan friends/family. Beautifully told story, fantastic animation that allows the story to be related to the viewer and the characters fluidly. Finally Macross Plus, the one Macross story that managed to get released in the west without Harmony Gold squashing it. The movie and the OVA are great, both excellent action animation of mecha battles and dog fights. A soundtrack by Yoko Kanno that is yet another example of her genius and a plot that grabbed my Dad's attention while I was watching it on the family TV as a teenager. (A great endorsement; the man has only ever liked Disney's Snow White and Disney's Beauty and the Beast when it comes to animation) .
One of the best animation I have ever watched was the film adaptation of persepolis. Beautiful use of black and white animation in both a realistic and artistic style.
It took a year and a half to arrive and was arguably worth half of the asking price, but my 'Mechanical Monsters' Fleischer Superman figures are a treasure, along with the model of the car George Reeves drove in episodes of that show.
@@favoritemustard3542 Now I'm searching for a diecast 1937 Desoto, the car he threw on the cover and inside of Action # 1. I did manage to find the two movie serial 'Batmobiles'.
Fleischer's Superman also used a lot of rotoscoping, when a the animated character is a tracing of a real actor's performance. This is why some characters like Superman seem to be more anatomically correct and move more naturally. Disney's Snow White also used rotoscoping for some characters. Other than the more natural movement, a distinctive trait found in a lot of rotoscoped animation is that fine details like some features of the face or musculature tend to appear and disappear in a seemingly random manner. I can only guess that this is because each cell is referenced to a photo and these features are vague enough that they are not traced the same way each time. In other types of animation, each cell is compared to the ones before and after it, so fine details tend to be more consistent. It is, of course, possible to make a "second pass" with rotoscoped animation to make the animation more consistent from frame to frame, but it adds to the cost.
I'm a little upset that Karl never mentioned "Heroic Age" when talking about how well animated shows and anime can be. Heroic Age, though it came out back in 2007, is very high quality. If you haven't seen it yet, I'll give you the story description as said on Crunchyroll (Even though the episodes aren't available there). I do hope you check it out if you haven't already. After the Tribe of Gold vanished from the universe, the tyrannical Tribe of Silver ascended to rule, forcing mankind-the Iron Tribe-to the edge of extinction. Humanity’s search for a savior leads them to a planet of ruin where a champion foretold by prophecy is found: a feral boy named Age, who holds their destiny in his hands and the untold power of the Tribe of Hero within.
I love the design and animation of Ghost In Shell 1995. The Series GITS:Stand-Alone Complex also had spectacular animation especially when the characters dove into cyberspace. GITS: Solid State Society has expected level of animation prowess. GITS: Arise stepped it up even further than SAC series. I only saw the first season of GITS:SAC 2045 but I did not enjoy the CGA animation. At times I felt I was watching a PowerPoint instead of an anime. Compounding issues the intrigue of its plot didn't kick off until the second to last episode. I like the animation style of Psycho-Pass. Satoshi Kon movies have spectacular animation Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Paprika. Summer Wars has eye popping action scenes. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is excellent too. Five Centimeters Per Second is a sight to behold; It hits me in the feels any time I watch it. Studio Ghibli is top notch when they animate any food being prepared, cooking, or cooked.
The animation in Garden of Sinners was so powerful it crashed my computer when I tried to watch it. My poor ass had to wait 5 years to get a machine powerful enough to watch the series in.
I (still) have an original tape for the show that has the episodes "the bulleteers" and "the mechanical monsters" and a combo tape that had a Popeye Aladin parody episode and a superman episode where he fights Egyptian guardian monsters. Edit: I also found a DVD copy that has all the episodes on it. Highly recommend seeing at least once.
When yous were talking about animation thats just absolutely beautiful and just throws out the budget I was expecting Demon Slayer: Entertainment District arc, more specially when the boys and Uzui fighting Daki and Gytaru
I had 3 VHS tapes of the Max Fleischer Superman cartoon when I was a kid and I watched them until they broke but I still kept them in their cases and years later I took them apart and fix 'em and got to relive my childhood.
My dad had the DVD set with Betty boop, Popeye, and superman was inspiring
Flex
I had one, long gone now 🥲
You cuold have fixed them with clear tape ive done this to a few vhs tapes that broke
@@dylanjwicklund92 i did
Those old Superman shorts were 100 percent top tier! I can not believe how well the animation holds up to this day!
No reason hand drawn animation wouldn't "hold up", the difference is going to always be skill there, not technology like with CG.
Owl House on Disney does the same thing of spending their entire animation budget in a few carefully chosen scenes and the smoothness and flow of the art really brings you into those scenes.
Those being either beaut action scenes or cute feel-good scenes. Both are grand.
Amity Luz kiss scene is the one that jumps to my mind first. I just remember watching and bam, the art felt like it changed
Or the BIG fight scene between Eda and her sister. SO SMOOTH.
This was my first Superman and it set my standards for life 😄. My grandmother used to get me VHS's at the Goodwill (a charity/bargain bin store), so I was blessed to grow up with a quality of entertainment that most other kids missed, in the 90's. Then I basically went right into the all of the JL shows from the WB in the 2000's.
Surprised to hear a mention of "your name". It was thw first proper anime i watched outside of studio Ghibly movies and i was absolutely blown away by tbe visuals (it also completely knocks me down every time emotionally) and i was lucky enough to stumble across "weathering with you" in cinemas as it looked just as stunning, if not more so. Absolutely love the kind of animation where every frame could be a wallpaper
edit: Also gotta mention "Arcane", love the league lore/world and arcane was absolutely amazing surprise
One of the director's first works is called "Voices of A Distant Star," and it's phenomenal. It's only 25 minutes long... but has a gripping story and fantastic animation... especially once you find out that Makoto Shinkai wrote, directed, and produced the entire thing on his Power Mac G4!
Garden of words is also amazing. Same studio that did your name.
Komi Can't Communicate is a slice of life anime with pretty good animation. The protagonist is almost always drawn without a mouth (because she has severe social anxiety problems, making her too nervous to speak in public), but they still manage to show SO MUCH emotion in her face.
I liked the first season but forgot by the time s2 was on Netflix. Should I go back to check it out?
@@thematman92 I don't know, I've only seen the first few episodes
I really enjoyed it, very uplifting and cute. Gives you a feel good moment for even the smallest everyday victories
It's a cute show, but about middle of the road in terms of animation. Not bad, not spectacular, just good.
I really liked the Batman of Shanghai shorts they used to show on Cartoon Network back in the day. I remember being a kid and i was comepletely shocked by the animation quality even before i had a concept of how much work went into it.
Can't mention Fleischer Studios quality animation without mentioning the Betty Boop short with a rotoscoped Cab Calloway dancing whilst singing "St. James Infirmary" and the intricate background shots coinciding with the lyrics.
23:22 this part of the discussion reminds me of Martin Mystery, there was something that felt so "off" about their attempt at imitating anime that I just couldn't watch it. The faces especially bugged me.
this might not be an anime, but an example of insane animation in a more literal sense was the way they drew adultswim's Superjail, the innumerable fight scenes are always absurdist-tier violence and insane gore distilled into a minute or two of mind-numbing madness; it always reminded me of the old Spy vs Spy comics from MAD magazine.
The most important thing here is: Even though they asked that price out of spite, they actually used that budget to go far and above what they would have done for the normal price.
This is the Superman that comes to mind when I think Superman, that black logo, those soulless dot eyes, and the fact he punches a fucking laser
Animation is truly an under appreciated medium, I’m glad that more films are taking advantage of it like puss in boots the last wish.
I really liked the animation of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade.
There are, of course, beautifully animated action scenes. Anyone familiar with the movie, even coincidentally, probably knows it from the iconic men in black armor firing lovingly animated MG 42's. But even slower scenes capture it. Two character's holding hands. A guy shuffling through a bag. Men getting out of cars. All of it is money dripping off the screen.
It's in the the same vein as Vampire Hunter D or Neo Tokyo: The Running Man. Never the first to be mentioned like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, or Cowboy Bebop, but still up there as one of the greats.
The same level of care is given to action sequences and laid back humdrum of everyday life. Stuff like that can't really be done without budgets larger than Dwayne Johnson's ego, but when it does happen it's fucking awesome.
I just want to say the final 4 episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender. The budget was *all* there for the Zuko v Azula Agni Kai. The Fire Lord v Avatar Aang. Even Suki, Sokka, and Toph taking out the blimps. It's not the apex of animation, but it is definitely one of those "here we go. Put in all the budget we need" moments.
For me, this just proves that good animation is timeless.
Not anime anime and pretty well known but, in the spirit of top tier animations, the Tie Fighter short by otaking is still one the most awesome pieces of animation I've seen in recent memory.
i stumbled across a DVD of all the shorts in a pound shop a long while back, best quid i ever spent.
I'm fast approaching my 50's and I grew up watching the Popeye and Superman reruns. I still watch them now. But I only ever saw Gulliver's travels once on T.V . It was a master piece.
A had at least 1 perhaps a few vhs of these as a kid. Don't recall much but I do vividly remember the clip of him punching the bullets.
There was one scene in the Heavy metal movie that still impresses me to this day. It's a shot near the end of the film where the protagonist of the current story is flying over this canyon and the camera pans around them as they're flying and you can see all the detail of the canyon below them as the viewpoint continually changes. Very impressive
I always really liked the animation of the various Popeye shorts and short films from the 30s and 40s. My favorite was from the Popeye meets Sinbad the Sailor short film. The final fight, and especially after Popeye eats the spinach, is unironically one of my favorite fight scenes in animation.
the hand drawn painting backgrounds of Sinbad are what I always remember.
I grew up with DVD collections of old cartoons, and this was my introduction to Superman! I was 4 when I first watched it, in my 20s now and I still remember him fighting a dinosaur!
Has anyone seen "Les triplettes de Belleville"... That animation was on point!
My wife and I saw this movie just last week and was really impressed at the animation. Being that it’s hand drawn as opposed to computer generated was what made this film refreshing to watch
I love Superman saving the plane in the opening of Superman Returns.
This video brought back so many good memories of watching those shorts at my grandparents house as a kid. Thank you for reminding me of the good 'ole days, and thank you for the great content as always, keep up the good work
About the molten metal and Superman's cape. In 2019 I was in Singapore. There was a Disney exhibition at the ArtScience Museum. Apart from early drawings and cels, there was a movie showing how they prepared for the lava (Night on Bald Mountain) scene in Fantasia(1940). There was a tank of mud, with air forced through from below, with a bunch of animators making drawings of how the mud reacted when the bubbles burst.
I can't stop laughing at the skeleton screaming in the background.
If you're looking for more somewhat obscure amazing animation I can really recommend "Tragedy of man" from 2011, it took over 20 years to make and it really shows on screen!
The OP to Ya Boy Kongming! has some of the smoothest movement I ever seen with some of the dancing, helps that the music is great. Very much an anime version of the Peacemaker intro.
Grew up watching the Fleischer Shorts on DVD and Superman TAS on TV. Definitely was blessed. Your timing is insane because I just re-watched the first season of Superman TAS over the weekend and absolutely loved it. I specifically liked the early episodes where they used rack focusing (like the shot of Lex with Superman behind him in the opening credits).
About having shorts before a film - In Scarborough, the Royal Opera house used to have a 2 picture Saturday matinee and they'd have shorts before the films - Including these Superman shorts.
It was such a shame when the place burned down. I miss the old place.
This was one of my favorite episodes youve done in a while
I love the different framerate of characters in Into the Spiderverse even if it gave me actual eyestrain and a migraine. The art is worth the pain.
Good call on into the Spiderverse. One of the best animated movies I have seen. I think it is among the best super hero movie of all time, second to only Logan.
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One detail I'm surprised wasn't mentioned is that the Fleischer Brothers basically invented the rotoscope and rotoscoping just to make the Superman cartoon look as good as possible.
They invented that over 20 years before they got the contract for Superman.
For a personal favourite for just really nice looking animation, all of the animation for Pink Floyd The Wall and the film adaptation of the same name. It’s full of absolutely massive, immaculately detailed handrawn animation that blends with the music they’ve been put to near seamlessly, with a lot of contorting and morphing into other objects, with each frame of animation for at least one segment taking an entire day of work.
There’s also any studio Ghibli film. They’re not doing much that is technically impressive a lot of the time but the sheer detail that goes into them works to create an awe-inspiring and beautiful experience, kind of like clockwork.
Also of note: The head of animation for The Wall (the political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe), would also be the production designer for Disney’s Hercules
This cartoon was my introduction to Superman. Growing up we had a VHS tape with a few of them on it, and it was badass
There are so many shows that have fantastic animation, one that springs to me is the skateboarding scene in K or K Project
Also, the song used in its is funny af for an English speaker
When i was a kid we had 2-3 dvds with an assortment of these superman and popeye shorts, i feel like i remember another thing being on them, but i cant remember it to clearly
Holy shit you just activated some memories I didn't know I had. I remember watching the as a kid. Looking back now they were made in high quality.
One example of good and creative animation in what some people consider a "bad" film is Looney Tunes: Back In Action.
In short, there is a scene set in the Louvre when Bugs and Daffy are being chased by Elmer Fudd through different famous paintings, and when they enter that painting the animation takes on the art-style of the painter. It's a short but pretty good scene.
Now, I like flashy animation as much as the next guy. But what really get's me is when animators do that "little extra" thing that brings character to life and make them seem more alive. After all, that's what animation means. I mean the little details like in Beauty & the Beast when in the beginning of the song "Belle" we see Belle move her hair behind her ear. There's no reason for her to do that. In terms of animation and work it's just extra mileage. But it's such an everyday, mundane thing that, if you've had long enough hair, you've done yourself and it just make Belle seem more alive. Stuff like that, I love it. It's not as flashy as an anime fight, true, but it's still a flex showing that "Yeah, we can give you big musical numbers and cool special effects like the Ball-dance scene, but we're still able to do the mundane stuff too."
I had these on tape. Vhs . And they're all on RUclips. I wrote my college essay about these animations . Just. Perfect
Man i still have this dvd from back in the day
It had these superman shorts,had popeye and some other old goldies
One of the greatest anime fights of all time: Kakashi vs Obito from Naruto Shippuden.
All theatricality and ott magic goes out the window and we just see 5 minutes of immaculately choreographed and animated hands being thrown
I will fully admit that My Dress Up Darling has very beautiful animation. It has no reason to look like that
As its fairly easy to see, the design of characters from batman tas were also influenced by the Fleischer superman cartoons
Not going to mention Ghost in the Shell, because EVERYONE knows that, but I really loved Scissor Seven (or Killer Seven) and Jujustu Kaisen and Death Parade
I am using a buddys disney + that is on Australia and I am in America. So it was weird to see a movie called "Zootropolis" because in America its called "Zootopia"
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it but the entirety of gurren lagann is a perfect example of where you want to spend your animation budget. For Western animation seis manos is all so incredible and criminally underrated.
A show i recommend with such cool moments of animation is Cybersix, its done by TMS the same studio who helped on Batman TAS and it just looks amazing, the budget got so high that the creator chose to take a pay cut just so the show could keep looking good cause he loved the show to much to let the animation suffer from getting a budget cut
This is still the version I think of when I think 'animated superman' because it was just so wonderfully simple and clean in it's own way, but still so detailed and fluid. It was like a comic and radio drama blended together.
I had the collection of these Superman videos on VHS as a kid. Played them till the tapes wore out.
I'll recommend a now relatively obscure anime from the '80s as a great example of knowing what to use the budget on: Fang of the Sun Dougram. A lot of it is very stilted/stylised low quality (think filler episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam, or Space Battleship Yamato)... and then they have a scene of their giant mecha kicking/punching a walking tank, and you can see where the episode's budget went: on animating exactly what it looks like for a giant metal hand/foot tearing its way through the hull of the enemy vehicle.
85% of my knowledge, is useless trivia Ive learned from Fact Fiend over years. Thank you so much.
Blast from the past. I still have VHS of both old Superman and Batman cartoon.
In terms of using the whole budget in one scene: Joseph King of Dreams' entire budget seemed to go towards the dream sequences. They're really imaginative and fun.
I have a DVD with five or so episodes of this in a set of older cartoons.
I only watched the Superman shorts 😅
Fleischer also did Betty Boop, which also holds up. Watch the Snow White short, when Coco the Clown does St. John's Infirmary, it's still such an awesome sequence.
A good, completely brand new series that I would suggest for awesome animation is the new Gundam, Witch of Mercury. The fight scenes there are top tier.
I was looking for an inclusion of ghost in the shell but I think a lot of people didn't see serial experiments Lain and I think the animation there is interesting.
Honorable mention to Gargoyles.
Regarding that netflix show did you like the art style of Aeon Flux and that Alexander the great show that used similar animation style?
i had a dvd of all those shorts and that image of superman with the molten metal is burned into my memory
I’m still new to the world of anime and whatnot, but I do know that berserk was so expensive because of the prominence of horses. Absolutely loved it
My favorite animation is still Metropolis. Even with everything that came out since then that style was nice.
I'll never forget Superman punching the death laser into submission.
Always gotta recommend Macross: Do You Remember Love, one of the best animated movies from the 80's and hardly ever hear anyone know, let alone mention it.
I had a dvd of these superman shorts, for a long time it was the only superman I knew
Fog Hill of five elements animation is majestic and gives like the old Chinese painting looks but with fluid animation.
Im surprised FLCL didnt get an honorable mention at least. I thought everyone knew about that anime and its production value is through the roof, at one point animating in manga and doing crazy 360 stuff long before One Punch Man or Mob Psycho. It has an interesting development story as well and a killer soundtrack from 'the Pillows'.
Only 6 episodes, if you haven't watched it, theres practically no reason not to.
I love those old Superman cartoons, I was just watching a few of them last night
I met spacewolf at a weird art expo a couple weeks ago and bought one of his pieces, and I just noticed you have one on the shelf behind you.
Boondocks is peak Animation, Style, Music, Story, Comedy, Commentary, Peak everything really
i still go back and rewatch Tanjiro v Lower 5 from Demon slayer. the combo between the sun breathing flames and the pink fire from the blood demon art are gorgeous even compared to the newest stuff from later seasons. another is all the final battles from netflix Castlevania and the hand drawn black and white action shots.
I tell you a show I watched which had an animation style that captivated me.. Phantom 2040...that show was so different... It reminded me of aeon flux.
Honestly some of my favorite animation is from the castlevania anime because it’s got some of the most beautiful still image backgrounds and some of the most amazing fights I’ve ever seen
Some of my favorites are Fantastic Planet, The thief and the cobbler, 1971 A Christmas Carol, and the INCREDIBLE Animerama Trilogy
Invincible on Amazon was a great example of this. The art style is consistent for the show but you can tell where they spent the budget on animation. Some scenes the characters move slow and clunky like an episode of South Park, but then there's fight scenes on par with One Punch.
I should have waited 10 seconds.
I remember paprika having some amazing animated scenes, but I’m not sure if it’s just because I love the movie.
Voices of a Distant Star is beautifully animated. (it's also a heartbreaking story; be prepared)
(A) Wind named amnesia. Some just static shots of the after world. Aria, bounty hunter has some cool Cyber Chinese vibes
one of my favorite bits of animation comes from My Little Pony of all places. A chaos god fills a cup with chocolate milk but it fills from top of glass to bottom then when he drinks he slurps the glass out from around the milk and throws it off screen as a brick.
The one piece scene where luffy finally gets to the roof in wano is really good
I think my favorite example of “blowing your animation budget on one scene” comes from the climax of Steven Universe.
SPOILERS FOR STEVEN UNIVERSE!!!!!!!
Steven’a gem has been plucked from his body. The gem projects a (seemingly) emotionless copy of Steven. And their reunion is animated so smooth. They both grin and start laughing as they hug and spin and become one again. It’s a beautiful scene.
Anime recommendations: Katsuhiro Otomo Presents - Memories. Three short stories, each animated in their own style. Very cool Science Fiction short stories and I love the animation.
Appleseed is a very cool set of films and I don't hear it mentioned often, though it has its flaws. Millennium Actress is an anime I want everyone to know about, even my non-anime fan friends/family. Beautifully told story, fantastic animation that allows the story to be related to the viewer and the characters fluidly.
Finally Macross Plus, the one Macross story that managed to get released in the west without Harmony Gold squashing it. The movie and the OVA are great, both excellent action animation of mecha battles and dog fights. A soundtrack by Yoko Kanno that is yet another example of her genius and a plot that grabbed my Dad's attention while I was watching it on the family TV as a teenager. (A great endorsement; the man has only ever liked Disney's Snow White and Disney's Beauty and the Beast when it comes to animation) .
Full Metal Alchemist, Trigun, GTO,
There's so many good anime lol
That is an awesome painting 😆 one punch man is a vibe. Nice homage
Thanks for bringing yet more intelligent digestion of the art to my screen :) you fellas pwn.
One of the best animation I have ever watched was the film adaptation of persepolis. Beautiful use of black and white animation in both a realistic and artistic style.
It took a year and a half to arrive and was arguably worth half of the asking price, but my 'Mechanical Monsters' Fleischer Superman figures are a treasure, along with the model of the car George Reeves drove in episodes of that show.
Awesome! That's a kickass 🤖 for sure, too.
@@favoritemustard3542 Now I'm searching for a diecast 1937 Desoto, the car he threw on the cover and inside of Action # 1. I did manage to find the two movie serial 'Batmobiles'.
my grandma had these on vhs and me and my brother loved them
man Max Fleischer was my childhood had Popeye on VHS and Superman on DVD
Fleischer's Superman also used a lot of rotoscoping, when a the animated character is a tracing of a real actor's performance. This is why some characters like Superman seem to be more anatomically correct and move more naturally. Disney's Snow White also used rotoscoping for some characters. Other than the more natural movement, a distinctive trait found in a lot of rotoscoped animation is that fine details like some features of the face or musculature tend to appear and disappear in a seemingly random manner. I can only guess that this is because each cell is referenced to a photo and these features are vague enough that they are not traced the same way each time. In other types of animation, each cell is compared to the ones before and after it, so fine details tend to be more consistent. It is, of course, possible to make a "second pass" with rotoscoped animation to make the animation more consistent from frame to frame, but it adds to the cost.
Akira is so old, I constantly come across avid anime fans who have no idea what is it... Show Akira the love it needs.
I'm a little upset that Karl never mentioned "Heroic Age" when talking about how well animated shows and anime can be. Heroic Age, though it came out back in 2007, is very high quality. If you haven't seen it yet, I'll give you the story description as said on Crunchyroll (Even though the episodes aren't available there). I do hope you check it out if you haven't already.
After the Tribe of Gold vanished from the universe, the tyrannical Tribe of Silver ascended to rule, forcing mankind-the Iron Tribe-to the edge of extinction. Humanity’s search for a savior leads them to a planet of ruin where a champion foretold by prophecy is found: a feral boy named Age, who holds their destiny in his hands and the untold power of the Tribe of Hero within.
😣 not quite on topic but made me think of my favorite Keven Conroy moments (singing episode, sitting with Ace).
Those were a highlight of my childhood. The death ray.
I love the design and animation of Ghost In Shell 1995. The Series GITS:Stand-Alone Complex also had spectacular animation especially when the characters dove into cyberspace. GITS: Solid State Society has expected level of animation prowess.
GITS: Arise stepped it up even further than SAC series.
I only saw the first season of GITS:SAC 2045 but I did not enjoy the CGA animation. At times I felt I was watching a PowerPoint instead of an anime. Compounding issues the intrigue of its plot didn't kick off until the second to last episode.
I like the animation style of Psycho-Pass.
Satoshi Kon movies have spectacular animation Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Paprika.
Summer Wars has eye popping action scenes. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is excellent too. Five Centimeters Per Second is a sight to behold; It hits me in the feels any time I watch it.
Studio Ghibli is top notch when they animate any food being prepared, cooking, or cooked.
The animation in Garden of Sinners was so powerful it crashed my computer when I tried to watch it. My poor ass had to wait 5 years to get a machine powerful enough to watch the series in.
I (still) have an original tape for the show that has the episodes "the bulleteers" and "the mechanical monsters" and a combo tape that had a Popeye Aladin parody episode and a superman episode where he fights Egyptian guardian monsters.
Edit: I also found a DVD copy that has all the episodes on it. Highly recommend seeing at least once.
My dad had the same opinion on the 'black bars on the TV' thing, until I explained the reason to him and he got it
When yous were talking about animation thats just absolutely beautiful and just throws out the budget I was expecting Demon Slayer: Entertainment District arc, more specially when the boys and Uzui fighting Daki and Gytaru