What makes your average animu composer better than someone like Hans Zimmer?
Hollwood Musicians vs Anime Musicians
Charles Davis
Xavier Martin
Nothing does because they're not. Don't be a fucking retard.
Yeah same.
David White
Feels like animu composers draw on more styles AND instruments in comparison to Hollywood which give their music a lot more variation and character whereas Hollywood especially feels very one-note a lot of the time (only ever drawing on orchestral+le epic latin choirs, or something like sad violin/piano).
Angel Hall
I think what you mean to say is that Hollywood music is melody memery.
In short it's catchy trash.
Colton Roberts
>In short it's catchy trash.
But that's exactly what I adore about my favourite anime OSTs.
Liam James
Guess so. At least within animu, composers tend to really own their style like OP's pic. Sawano's stuff may be bombastic and probably as hollywood-esque as anime music will get, it never blends in and still feels unique to Hollywood stuff.
Nicholas Moore
no problem with that, there's a reason pop music is popular
Nathan Campbell
Kayden Smith
They are not and with this i'm not saying they are bad but they are not as good as Hollywood ones.
Kayden Butler
There isn't a single anime composer that even comes close to the level of guys like James Horner, Maurice Jarre and Ennio Morricone, besides Joe Hisaishi.
Henry Martin
More variety than Hollywood.
That's both a good, and a bad thing.
Julian Williams
because Hollywood musics are fucking trash
even anime shit is better than that garbage
Levi Bennett
How is having more variety bad?
Adrian Nelson
Not him but I'd assume he means variety in both style and skill level.
Daniel Cruz
>more variety
>j-pop shit
Good one.
Anthony Williams
>begging the question
>guaranteed replies
I hate this place
Jonathan Brown
>replies are upvotes
You are welcome to leave.
Camden Watson
Think of it as a "trick of all trades, master of none" thing. Yes, there are composers which deliver each time, but there are a lot of half-assed soundtracks out there as well.
Hollywood is mainly consistent in its' thing, but the lack of variety plays against it. Orchestra, piano and guitars get old after a while. The composition doesn't differ much between movies.
Parker Torres
>includes james Horner, the most well-known plagiarist in all of Hollywood
>Doesn't even mention John FUCKING Williams
>Chooses Hisaishi, a self-admitted minimalist musician, of all the fucking orchestral music composers in anime
Fucking kill yourself shit eater.
Wyatt Robinson
youtube.com
tldw; blame Zimmer and his computers
Lincoln Collins
The real irony is that Zimmer makes far more memorable music than 90% of modern Hollywood, it's the reason people will always remember his Batman and Inception scores over whatever the fuck is in those Marvel or Michael Bay movies.
Adrian Cooper
Who are you quoting?
Nolan James
youtube.com
all modern Hollywood music sound the same
Hunter Hall
What an interesting yet depressing video. Ending was great.
Samuel Ward
But he did music for anime as well.
Logan Hughes
as all hollywood films are the same. Same characters, same temp, same pace, same events, almost the same script. There are like 5-10 movies that they rehashing over and over.
So the problem is deeper.
Eli Foster
>Chooses Hisaishi, a self-admitted minimalist musician, of all the fucking orchestral music composers in anime
You're a complete idiot
Gavin Price
all the same things can be said about mediocre games and animu as well. Capitalism is afraid of creativity and new. They don't need to produce new content or challange ideas, they need to make money. Plane and simple as it is. So in order to stay profitable the better strategy is to make something bland that people are already used to. Retards see something familiar, recognizable - retards pay.
To be creative is not worth the risk in the eyes of profit-making companies.
Landon Johnson
Zimmer acts more like a music director than a composer these days.
It's other composers in his studio that are doing the real work.
His studio has this huge sound library and collection of short musical phrases that the interns would put them together to make a track for Zimmer.
Aaron Myers
>Feels like animu composers draw on more styles AND instruments in comparison to Hollywood which give their music a lot more variation and character whereas Hollywood especially feels very one-note a lot of the time (only ever drawing on orchestral+le epic latin choirs, or something like sad violin/piano).
Case point:
Xavier Turner
Yeah deeper than Ground Zero and Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
Jason Ross
There's actually a solid rebuttal of that video
Jace King
Here's a little fun fact: Hans Zimmer actually produced the music for Blood+.
James Bell
Horner was a better composer anyway. All of his soundtracks despite being very different in style always incorporated his signature horn motif. His soundtracks for the Mask of Zorro and Enemy at the Gates were the work of sheer mastercraft.
William Hughes
As silly as the shows are, Death Note,TTGL, and Code Geass have top 100 GOAT soundtrack material in all seriousness
Luis Gonzalez
Do Marvel film even have a common theme song? Cause that's what I iniatially thought when he asked at the beginning.
Not that the other examples don't get praised for their music all the time anyway.
Adrian Young
>star wars
>mahvel
i love disney soundtracks
Dominic Miller
I love how this guy is constantly compared to Zimmer despite them barely sounding similar at all. Particularly when I watched Interstellar I was thinking how exactly these two sounded similar again.
In anyway Sup Forums really needs to learn more composers aside from the ones Sony crams down it's throats.
Chase Long
It's mainly 95% of comic book movies and action blockbusters seem to have the same non-descript "get hype" sound track. Watch more different kinds of movies
Austin Morris
Composers like John Williams make iconic tracks people can hum 40 years after they come out
Sawano wasn't even born 40 years ago. How much of his music will you be humming 40 years from now?