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I don’t think an anime opening has ever made me laugh so hard.

NO KINGS.

The fun part is they all have their own tricks! Kitanohara did something similar with objects rather than characters. Ota turned digital effects like sparkles, shading, reflections, etc into clearly drawn effects... then it all contrasts with the physical backdrop. "Handmade" from a different angle!

The ways CITY's creative width becomes specific technical choices is also fascinating. Given how stylized everything is, each director basically adapts to the "level of technology" of the series. Ishidate started by translating photography ideas like being out of focus into the drawings themselves

One of CITY's greatest achievements is pushing veteran artists to tackle new challenges. Joji Unoguchi started as an in-betweener in the 80s, became a leader of KyoAni's budding BG art crew, then spent decades as art & 3DBG director

His role in CITY #05? Creating a diorama to set the episode into

A tablespread group draw between me, ibcf, and aaron long. from left to right: a clump of characters by me, including mort, platypus duck and some other designs; aaron long and fester fish (RARE!!); and ibcf with the cat/mammalian creature from prit paarn's "time out" pointing and yelling "oh my god it's platypus duck!!!"

my clump isolated

a fsjal drawing of mort by vertecks, annotated "for aisterion with hatred and vengeance"

jammin my way outta #OIAF2025 soon...thanks for hangin out @vertecks.bsky.social @ibcf.bsky.social @aaronlong.bsky.social

(It's because it apparently has a gag page by me in it, which would be cool to see. The one with DUCK TWACY cameo)

The main protagonists of Azumanga Daioh, all japanese schoolgirls, having a chilean-style barbecue themed around Chile's september 18th national holiday. All six of them -Chiyo, Osaka, Sakaki, Yomi, Tomo, Kagura- are dressed like cueca dancers or like peasants and landworkers from the country's central region, and are eating chilean dishes like empanadas, anticuchos and choripanes.

I'm on a trip outside my home country, and since it was very recently Chile's national holiday, i thought of giving it a farewell by giving the girls from Azumanga Daioh a good ol' chilean "asado." I love these characters and i thought of no better way to honor them.

anyone else at #OIAF?

Praying and manifesting for the eventual Warner Bros. x Pokemon crossover... there's potential here!!!!

Daffy is holding and petting a rock in the foreground as a disgusted Porky looks on. Daffy: Good work, ol' boy! You've got the makings of a real champ-een!

An angry Porky berating a defensive Daffy, now covering his rock's "ears". Porky: You crazy duck(lett)--that's just a rock! Daffy: Don't listen to him, Rock Hudson! He's just trying to psyche you out!

A wide shot of Porky and Daffy. Daffy is reared back in a pitching position DAFFY: USE EXPLODE Porky: wha-

Two drawings. The top drawing is Daffy throwing a rock at Porky's head. The second drawing is the same with a blinding, explosive flash over it.

A friend asking if I could draw Porky and Daffy as Pokemon (Tepig and Ducklett!) spawned into a fantastic conversation that I immediately had to immortalize

i can't spoil CITY episode 5's best trick, but suffice to say minoru ota (director and storyboarder) is a genius and this is truly revolutionary tv anime

i've long been kinda on the fence about kyoani's arawi adaptations--i've found their love for naturalism kinda at odds with arawi's surrealism and hilariously UN-natural pacing and emphasis, and both kinda cancelling each other out in the process--but not anymore!

we've come a long way from the simple days when the school principal merely suplexed a deer

Happy Bugs Day! Going through some old art for the occasion. He's tricky and aloof with me, but rewarding on the chance I can pin 'im down!

(The movie is 'Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam'.)

I can't believe how underappreciated this movie is. I don't think I'd even *heard* of it until just today.

Her fondness for Nightow and now the willingness to direct a Corocoro adaptation paint a clear picture of Rie Matsumoto's taste for juvenile chaos. If her more idiosyncratic pitches are fated to die, getting her back on something she enjoys is a pretty good deal!

not many shadows but brings to mind the notorious toy story 2 posters

'30 minutes till the 21st century ends.'

'It was so short.'

'It was long enough for me, Chako.'

the trick of course is that it's quickly established as inconceivable that the tiny, gentle, and/or adorably ineffectual characters in this show could ever do any harm to each other, in spite of their most diligent efforts

the anime "risky/safety" (1999-2000) displays a working prototype of the kyoani ideal of therapeutic moe, despite it opening on a scene of a shinigami appearing before a despondent young lady and declaring her intent to send the latter to hell.

those famous screen lovers

going to stream r.o. blechman's "the soldier's tale" at 7 PM PST tonight in the world animation discord, arguably one of the best animated films made in the USA. check out this stellar sequence animated by fred burns! www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/87...

a beautiful day (music is Untitled Work on Electronium Synth Machine by Bruce Haack)

pretty literally no seams understood exactly the strengths of black and white

Thanks, Zaslav

in honor of various "fan lyric" videos to instrumental songs that never had lyrics, here is my own "fan lyric" video for my favorite cartoon theme song, the 50s BARNEY BEAR intro

Here’s a Tex Avery-directed Raid commercial from 1969, featuring the voices of Paul Frees, Mel Blanc, and Dick Tufeld for ya…