Is it possible to have a good action scene without much or any good animation? Not in the sense that it has to be all stills, but rather just having functional animation at best.
Is it possible to have a good action scene without much or any good animation...
Bentley White
Gavin Richardson
Bump for interest.
Xavier Reed
few anime off the the top of my head with that. its all about the flow
Angel Long
I find that hard to imagine. Having a good flow of action is key but it has to be supported with good animation for it to work, no?
Isaiah Hernandez
Shura no Toki got through on manliness and choreography
This webm isn't really representative because the series was QUALITY most of the time
Brody Bailey
Not when you have someone trying to figure out whats gonna happen next and not so much focusing on the way a line is drawn
Aaron Sanders
That's actually not bad at all.
Blake Young
Kill la Kill would be a good example
Lincoln Walker
Yeah, just insert a bunch of camera shakes and motion blur and you're good to go :^)
John Ramirez
Yes, its called Manga.
Jeremiah Foster
youtube.com/watch?v=tZWLpxTfnB8
Aiden Wilson
There's some pretty neat animation in there though.
Jordan Howard
Easton Diaz
Good example of sparse animation but fights looking awesome would be - its mostly stills and low quality short scenes, but looks damn awesome.
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And here as counter example actually WELL animated fight
Jack Richardson
That scene has pretty unimpressive animation for YZQ.
Blake Bailey
ping pong
Asher Johnson
The last episode of Gunbuster manages with a full minute of stills.
Luke Murphy
I remember the Tanaka arc in GANTZ, when Kei fight against the giant bird, the animation is not great (but the drawings of good quality), but the flow of action seemed good enough for me to think the scene was well made. (I read the manga first)
But it's a hard one, usually good flow means readable movements which leads to complex animation of bodies
Nathaniel Jackson
True
I also kind of agree for Ben-To
Jeremiah Parker
All you need is a JAM Project insert song
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Ethan Peterson
Luke Watson
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Austin Rodriguez
jojo comes to mind
Jace Thomas
Tried more than once to get into yozakura quartet but it was boring and I wasn't feeling the characters at all. Plus a lot of the sakuga like in op's webm seems to come from the OVAs and not the TV series.
Julian Nelson
That is well-drawn and well-animated, it has nothing to do with what the OP is asking.
Brayden Cook
Kaworu's Death from Neon Genesis Evangelion is a fucking masterpiece and that's basically just a still with a shot of the body falling
Angel James
If I post my sakuga MAD here will you guys give me feedback on it
Isaiah Powell
Rokka's animation was pretty variable throughout but I always thought the choreography was good and it never impacted my enjoyment of it.
Gabriel Thompson
Not really. Fancy fighting needs good animation, but the key to good of combat is speed, impact and choreography, which needs more technique, improvisation and decent knowledge of how the body moves in combat than actual animation.
Levi Rivera
Yeah, Ben-To is probably the best example I can think of at the top of my head. Not much movement, a lot of stills, but there is a great sense of dynamism to the fighting and the impacts actually feel like they have force behind them.