EXACTLY LOL probably pretentious feels like a much more shortened and normie version of manko whereas manko feels like the dude who writes a goddamn 300 page essay as a script every vid
I think this really goes to show how much time and passion Imai was putting into the project. I don’t think he’s ever stepped into a staff role as heavily as he did here.
@@ahmedadel830If I remember Makoto Shinkai made a whole episode by himself (yes everything except music and sound design), Yoshimichi Kameda and Hironori Tanaka animated like 20 episodes each in FMAB, But yeah, Imai is a different kind of beast.
@simplyrohith2163 Wow !! I heard someone did the same for space Dandy , Takeshi Koike for Redline , Hiroyuki Okiura for his movies and I'm sure there's others , I just still don't know much about the industry. However, did they have the same amount of time to do so ?
I'm surprised people don't talk more about WiT studio's lighting and textures... They are astonishing. It's so bizzare how almost every background shot looked so detailed and beautifully drawn
AoT animation is crazy, one of my fav part of it (that you mentioned) is the consistency in character design, the lively and human body language and expressions that convey perfect emotions, how dynamic it is, the choreography, the impact in the action, the tone, the atmosphere and compositing. Imai is a monster. That scene where the Female Titan is chasing Eren looked incredible, sort of reminded me of Jurassic Park Trex chase scene lmao. Hopefully my future manga has the same treatment!
I'm so excited to see how mappa handles the action sequences in the last part. Their production schedule is still very bad despite that I think that they are capable of surpassing S1 in terms of animation
@@user-og6pb6dd5p I would say it's decent but not good. As seen in the 100cams video, the deadline is still pretty tight that they had to push back final part 4 so I don't really think it's that good. However, I can't wait to see what Hayashi is cooking considering he has more animator firepower with Imai to achieve his vision
@@lazyworkingsloth it's still insanely complicated because of the Scale of the production. If they had to animate both parts, yeah that would be a bad production time. It's almost one year for each part which is very good by industry Standards (regardless of the Scale). Which thankfully they didn't had to animate both parts. Idk how but Mappa managed to get extra time from greedy kondansha. W for that
Great video! I can tell this took a lot of work. As an animator I think your analysis is really helpful and informative. While thick lines can help hide small errors the varying and dynamic line width in AOT can be difficult to maintain. Props to any animation team putting in that work.
I believe Eren vs Annie (forest) is the best looking 1v1 titan fight in the show so far it's why i hope Imai and some old animators come back in the final episode.
I really didn't even cared how good AOT looked , it was just so suspensful , the titans , i still remember when Female titan appeared and it was concluded its an abnormal titan than she smiles seeing eren terrified me .This brings back memories when i just started watching anime
All this great directing in the first season was due to the director Tetsuri Araki, his touche are also present in his other works such as Death Note and High School of the Dead, a legendary director
@@zenitsuthunder3946 I just love his consistency, he can make a show that exceeds 25 episodes with a great animation in each episode, if the studio production I.G worked on AOT instead of Wit, we would have seen Araki the director to this moment but unfortunately it did not happen
Thank you for this video. I haven't seen all anime out there, but this season of Attack on Titan right here remains in my mind as the best animated anime season I've ever seen, and I don't want people to forget, along with the second season and the first season of One Punch Man. I mean every single frame is picture perfect, with the thick lines and colors adding so much character to every second. Not to mention the hand drawn titans, mindblowing. This presentation is an enormous reason why the first and second seasons are my favorite in AOT.
To me personally, Ebara's ODM style is the gold standard. it elevates the "possible-realism" and functionality of the gear itself imo if that makes any sense
The first season was really amazing and if anything back then was the golden age of anime productions because their wasn't as many high profile shows like now.
Thanks for this amazing video ! I really love AOT and wanted to know more about it animation wise. So the show had not a good schedule, however Imai did all this work for the first season and I saw he did animation director for a lot of episodes and as u mentioned storyboard and they look this good !! Outstanding ! I hope to see more for S02 and S03
Hey PP(if that makes your shortform) ,Arifumi Umai is working on JJK S2(Source: MAL) as well ,which is under studio MAPPA , than why such a experienced member in AOT animation is not involved in AOT Season 4s.
He only worked on JJK s2 (different teams/producers, production conditions etc) and nothing else yet, although he is rumored to be working on the final aot episode
Was season 1 really the best looking? I always had in my mind that season 2 and 3 looked better, or atleast the art did, but it's been so long since i don't remember a thing so I'm probably wrong. I hope you do a video on the other seasons or a comparison.
Season 1 was easily the best looking it was the most polished and season 3 was the weakest but it did have the best cuts but wasn't consistently great as previous seasons but I think season 2 had the best animated aot episode ever ep 7 eren vs reiner was out of the world
they'll sleep on this but eat up anything mappa has to shit out, they bite the hands that fed them, the O.G the Godfather of this anime in the first place and created just to produce AoT
Wit studios truly did something amazing for attack on titan, s1 the animation was crazy, although s2 and s3 had production issues, the animation on certain episodes was still god tier, plus the composition was crazy if not the best I've ever seen in any anime, sorry but mappa has yet to reach on par with wit studios adaptation OF AOT 😊
you dont even know what youre talking about. s1 and s3 were absolute production hell, s2 had the best schedule but still suffered from it, and season 3 only has good moments because of Imai, Ebisu and Ebara. comp in season 3 was bad and half of the eps were static mouthflops
Alot of people with disagree with you, but I agree with everything you said, wit studios artsyle and animation for AOT was way better, plus I loved the lighting effects on the characters faces, unlike the blurred effect mappa puts for aot
I agree with you on that one that Mappa did a Subpar Job with AoT compared to Wit Studios. But what Mappa did with recent season was pretty good aswell. Had some pretty nice ODM sakuga and compositing on par with Wit. Thanks to Q Kawa, Malcolm Wope and Takashi Kojima
I believe the second season is the most visually appealing. All the characters were impeccably rendered, in the close up shots, thanks to the implementation of advanced painting technology. The scenes with only characters talking received significantly more attention to detail, unlike in the first season, where at times, it seemed like only their mouths were moving. In my opinion, it was an overall superior season.
S1 is like the objectively best animated season of AOT (even though i massively prefer the newer style). Even Wit peaked with this season. Especially since it was released in 2013, there weren't people scrutinizing "compositing", still frames etc. They did go overboard with the camera movements (considering the show isn't actually a shounen) but i like how it throws people off in to believing that it is an action show. For what it had to do, i strongly believe S1 is absolute perfection (my fav is still s4 p 2&3 but that is a lot due to the content)
I think that they changed the style at the exact right moment of the story. I prefer the old style, but I don’t think it would fit the modern story of the show
I'm not here to debate about the animation comparison between mappa and wit but all the wit scenes looked impactful , they carried a weight , on the other hand I dont even remember any of the mappa produced anime ( including aot ) to carry that same sense of impact , their style is more on the quicker and lighter side , but anyways aot will remain a masterpiece forever , atleast for me as it was my first anime ever
Well obviously It'll be impactful it was your first show and it's a damn good show, I still remember the Impact my first show did, HxH. Still one of my favourites. I don't see how Studios would be the differentiating point here.
@@seya_2I I don't mean impactful in terms of feeling I'm talking about the animation , the animation by wit carried weight , you'd feel the impact of the movement in it
Season 1 has the best animation sure but it’s not the best looking season, not even close.. often times it looks very cartoonish now, especially after the final season. The best looking season is S3 part 1 the last 5 eps of S3 part 2 and the Final Season.
This video is an analysis of the first season of AOT . The quality of WIT animation on the show took progressively a dip dive as seasons went . Actually , you can already see some cracks appear as early as season 2 , during the last 3-4 episodes, they overused still frames with motion lines and the decrease of sakuga animation . Season 3 part 1 only had great animation at the beginning and end of the arc because it was not as action heavy as the previous seasons (the rest had a decent animation) . Season 3 part 2 had the worst compositing and the worst animation in any AOT related content produced by WIT . The one and only scene with great animation was Levy fight against the Beast titan and was animated by Arifumi Imai , the quality of rest of the animation ranges from decent, to mediocre (there was no ODM scene , only the background moving ; there was no titan fight , only awkward close up and still frames).
@@seya_2 u sure jst bcz he worked on jjk does not mean he gonna work on aot blud Also his work on jjk was not good, probably bcz that fished eye shot man directed him to make it a particular way which was jst bad
