aside from probably being animated in japan, obviously
What makes this sequence look japanese?
Kayden Morris
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Andrew Gray
that run. you'll not find that sort of gesture in western places.
Parker Foster
>Sonic
Too slow
Henry Wood
It is well animated
Blake Russell
I mean... smeared running is practically part of Sonic's blood.
But there's more to it than that. This frame specifically looks really japanese but I don't know why. I'd argue it's the wrinkling of the eyes but that's more Peanuts than TMS (Rainbow, Hong Ying, and Sae Rom are also credited, but this scene specifically has a lot of Lupin energy to it, and I'm surprised that the mouth doesn't look like a Lupin mouth with how Lupin the walking is).
Liam Scott
An amount of time and dedication and mental fortitude to perfecting a craft that only our cold Eastern superiors are capable of possessing
Gavin Russell
Did they?
Animation payment in Japan is still shite and they really didn't really start getting crazy with animation until the 70's with Lupin.
prove me wrong please
Blake Rivera
Sonic is a Japanese video game.
Jackson Torres
I mean it would have been ingrained into Sonic enough that you couldn't tell whether or not the smeared running was from a Japanese animator or an American storyboarder.
Nathan Butler
Several manga shorthand that weren't popular in American animation media back then. Specifically, using several small geometric shapes in one frame to suggest a fluid motion, Schultz-esque circles around bead eyes to suggest distress, and the bubbles around his head as he snaps to attention.
Cameron Baker
Maybe the camera angle and the composition of the scene.
Joseph Ortiz
It's that plus the very common "one pupil bigger than the other when shocked" look, both of which are more commonly expressed in American art with eyebrow arcs and simultaneous pupil dilation.
Luis Bell
It's not the smeared running that suggests it. It's specifically the wide arms while running upright. American cartoons either run with an aggressive lunge like Tom or Shaggy, or run in a rigid jog like Fred or Jerry.
Jackson King
Coconuts has a general "Astroboy/Cyborg 009" design (look at the shoes).
Julian Cooper
the creator of this show is a great animator
Grayson Martinez
You mean Ken Butterworth ? He worked on some good stuff
Justin Richardson
TMS has that style, is very on model, and the expressions are more exagerated. But other than that it doesn't really look like anime at all.
Charles Long
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Joseph Bell
These days, even Japanese cartoons are animated in South Korea and I think this has been very much the case for the last few decades.
Dominic Diaz
it's still pretty varied
Jacob Thomas
face expressions. amerimutts fucking suck at it and draw robotic faces. except for disneys old films and some very early cartoon shows
Dominic Phillips
Anyone ever see the Man of the Year short TMS did? They must've been fresh off of Animaniacs when the made that one, judging by the designs the humans have.
Gavin Davis
The little circular sweat beads when he reacts in shock and the way they use smears is a dead gie away.
Why the fuck were there a handful of episodes of this show that were animated like this anyway? Like, some fucker just randomly decided to give this expensive japanese studio a few of them to do for seemingly no reason. Not complaining, it's just weird.
Jace Long
>To be continued
>tfw no follow-up ever
Jaxson Sanchez
Budget allocation I imagine.
Shame, it could have been great if it was all like this.
Sebastian Martin
>Robotnik Wins
Levi Jackson
What is he doing?
Kayden Taylor
Nah, all the episodes had an approx. $100,000 budget to them. Best guess is just scheduling. They probably wanted TMS to do more episodes, but couldn't, so they had to make do with the 4-parter and Super Robotnik (and the intro).
Austin Cox
Yeah, it seems the favorite among them though is Dr. Movie. No idea why.
Carson Fisher
Wait, they really did the intro too? But it looks completely different to their episodes, WAY more loose.
Grayson Green
This was standard for the time. It's why you have animaniacs eps that look great and animaniacs eps that look terrible. AOSTH had to produce 65 episodes in 1 year, so of course multiple animation studios needed to be contracted.
Isaac Rogers
His own clone
Jackson Garcia
>dat Sneed on the right