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Your Ultimate Guide to Anime Ending Credits: Part II

Which series was this image attributed to? It doesn't really give a hint as to what studio the photography ruined.

Modern postprocessing allows them to film scenes that look like convincing telephoto shots

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Which series was this image attributed to? It doesn't really give a hint as to what studio the photography ruined.

Looks like Mardock Scramble to me which Go Hands is the studio attributed to in production. They are still around and more Mardock might be coming so I'm also not sure why it was in the link about a studio being ruined.

Pretty much all anime dialogue is recorded over the animation rather than the other way around, hence why the process is referred to as post-recording (アフレコ); schedules being as messy as they are however, that tends to be done over progressively rougher footage or even the storyboards in some series.

I really love getting this info. As a general animation (process) fan, its great to get more detail about the work that goes into making it. That said, I think these could stand to be broken up a bit more. The material is pretty dense and even AS a fan, it gets rough to just read through all of the material in these two articles in one go. Make no mistake, I REALLY appreciate the work that went into this, I just think it'd be better in more parts to assist with the digestion.

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Modern postprocessing allows them to film scenes that look like convincing telephoto shots

*sigh* Those don't look like convincing telephoto shots, they look like convincing wide aperture shots. Wide aperture means a shallow depth of field which means some portion of the photograph is going to be out of focus - whether it's a wide angle shot or a telephoto shot is irrelevant. You can get the same blurred background effect in both.

I was watching my Kill La Kill "making-of" a couple of days ago, and the narrator says "These day, most voice recording occurs before the animation."
As I had previously heard that recording was typically done after the animation, that struck me as odd. I guess the explanation is that she meant, most voice recording occurs over incomplete animation?

Something that was nagging me yesterday but didn't seem worth bringing up is that the example for chromatic aberration doesn't display anything that looks like chromatic aberration to me (and with the strength of my eye prescription, chromatic aberrations are only ever a glance away). What I noticed today is that the banner image for this article definitely does display chromatic aberration.

Would it be possible for you to add attributions for the images and animations you use in these articles? A still image of ending credits isn't really enough to recognize from which anime/episode it came if you haven't watched that anime yourself recently. And a cool-looking bit of animation makes me want to see how it fits in the rest of the anime.
Something like Title + Episode nr. + Timestamp would probably be best.

It feels a little awkward to see the entire audio department abbreviated to a single paragraph. I know your specialty is animation and visual art, but if this is to be our "Ultimate Guide To Anime Ending Credits", shouldn't we learn about who does the sound effects, the audio director, composer, voice acting, audio recording, etc.? Please tell us more about the audio side too.

I'll make sure to do it in articles actually talking about the visuals since people have mentioned this before, didn't think much of it this time since those images are just there to break down the text a bit and have nice visual examples. But here you go: the first/last pieces of animation are from a commercial, not an actual show. The credits this time are Haikyuu/Rakugo/Aokana/Osomatsu, and the other pics are from Chuunibyou's behind the scenes, Seraph's backgrounds from Studio Pablo's blog, Euphonium's AnimeStyle feature, and Naoko Yamada visiting the studio's digital department.

It feels a little awkward to see the entire audio department abbreviated to a single paragraph. I know your specialty is animation and visual art, but if this is to be our "Ultimate Guide To Anime Ending Credits", shouldn't we learn about who does the sound effects, the audio director, composer, voice acting, audio recording, etc.? Please tell us more about the audio side too.