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Animefan16
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So ADV is now making their own anime, huh? |
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beverins
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I trust that they will concentrate on story, and not try to "second guess" what gives "anime" its look and feel. Leave that to the artistic directors, which should have free reign.
Rather like Teen Titans or that spy show on Miguzi - they can TRY, but they just.... can't... seem.... to.... get the essence of Japanese aesthetics. To me, why bother trying, do your own stuff. I would love to see ADV make an animated series that fused the best of American comic book design with Japanese skills at composition and storyboarding, then bring some of the skills of the best Japanese and US animators to draw the thing without cutting corners. Use Lightwave 3D's celshader, and you wouldnt even have to draw countless frames and concentrate on getting the animations right - just animate it in celshade mode like in GITS:SAC or the new Appleseed movie. |
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Sword of Whedon
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They've been doing it for quite awhile, lots of co-productions. The SIN OVA and the Lady Death movie as well as Farscape and BGC 2041(both in development hell) If it's concieved in Houston, it's not anime |
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Renaisance Otaku
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Is it me, or does this article make him sound, well, evil? I mean, selling a video game system he aquired for 150 for 1,500? I know that was some time ago, but it doesn't inspire the "we do this for the fans" stance ADV tries to take. Business is business I guess.
[q]If it's concieved in Houston, it's not anime[/q] I agree there. Hopefully, they'll realize this, and not try to sour things. |
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michelle
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I was shocked at the description of Ledford's "entrepreneurial" start too. Sounds like scamming gamer fans to me. That's what earns you respect in the corporate world I suppose.
Also interesting to read about ADV's efforts in bringing over DHY and the Japanese company's understandable concerns about an unknown distributing it. Nowadays DHY would fetch a pretty sum =) |
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Animefan16
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Here's a link to the Mutineer''s Moon website:
http://www.mutineersmoon.com |
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Ataru
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 Racier and more violent. I know I haven't watch AS for the longest time, but I'm sure if they show stuff like Samurai X and Chobits, it will have more then a couple of things cut. I guess they only show like Azumanga Daioh and Angelic Layer.
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tcov
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If I'm not mistaken, it was Ledford and Williams worked on Devil Hunter Yohko in a house or apartment, not even in a professional studio. It was quite a treat and that show rocked!
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dlw
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Actually all four titles you list, Azumanga Daioh, Angelic Layer, Samurai X and Chobits are showing on the Anime Network. If you want to see them bug your cable company to carry the Anime Network.
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dlw
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Sorta. We worked on DHY in my living room. But we just did the translation, subtitling/timing and such there. Once we had that all together we went to a studio to produce the actual master. That was a fun time. All of us, sitting down in one room to work on the show. Can't get us all into even one building these days. 
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Ataru
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Ahh, yeah, I kind of check the site yesterdya before I started to list titles at ramdom (Note that both Daioh and Layer were back to back.  ), but I hope AN will be on DirecTV before the years end (or atleast when I get back.)
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