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@@malachaixavior4156 most anime barely use CGI except for background art. I don’t know where people learn these misconceptions about “cel vs Digital animation.” But they’re always wrong. The same way people think animation isn’t hand drawn anymore. Also, this film’s low scores aren’t a surprise. People always hate something and then turn around and say it was “underrated” 18 years later.
The attention to detail on the cars for this is insane. Seeing a J80 Toyota Land Cruiser and a Hindustan Deluxe in anything is rare enough. Seeing them take so much damage so fluidly and in such detail makes both the car guy in me and the animator in me just keep going back in the timeline of the video to rewatch certain segments.
It's a crime and a shame it didn't get as much attention as it did when it was released, i hope more people fall in love with this and it blows up big time.
Netflix will give spriggan a new crop if fans. I started watching anime when I was younger like fist of the north star, dragon ball and yu you Hakusho but I always avoided this but don't know why.lol
I have literally been looking for this anime since a friend showed be a bit of the Fat Man scene in 2004! Tried every combo but there are a surprising number of military experiment escape animes out there.
around 2009 and 2010 I had seen this movie on a few lists of good anime movies and wanted to watch it. I could never find it anywhere which is strange because I never had an issue finding Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust which was only released two years later. About a week ago I found a super shady website where it was hosted for free. I even tried to just buy a DVD and theyre no where to be found.
@@Shane-un8pe it's being played somewhere on a subscription service. Can't remember if it was Hulu, Netflix or what have ya. But thats the reason it's been hitting up youtube lately.
Obviously the animation is incredible but also the background paintings are some of the best I’ve ever seen. Theres a long scene of him just traveling through the mountain after this and literally every new shot is incredible. The amount of detail they put into those paintings is mind blowing for something that’s on screen for a couple seconds. Seriously one of the best looking animes out there
Dope. Can confirm thats EXACTLY how Isntanbul looks. Houses stacked on houses, maze like alleyways, the whole sidewalk is like a flea market, tons of people selling rugs. They really nailed it.
Older anime movies don't really get as much attention since their exposure is much less than TV anime, specially outside of japan. Nowadays people have social media for their FOMO needs.
Spriggan [film] was originally released in japan april 1999. it was due for theatrical release in the states october 12 2001. It uh.. did not get much attention, given the notable events of the period, was pulled from a limited theatrical run, and got a DVD release six months later. very easy to overlook, despite this being one of studio 4C's early big projects.
this one came out in the 90's, not a single 3D technology was used and it still look 10 times better than the 2022 version, that says a lot about animators from the 90's
Because there was more soul back then, and by that I mean no corporate influence. Today it's all bland colors with no real "crispy" detail. And they're all like that because it's cheap and faster to produce. Impatient rich fucks ... Anyway, if I was a billionaire I would hire 90s artists and writer's to put them to work on my own private series of anime.. One can only dream
@@amuroray9115 or the original Fantasia. Not too many productions are going to be able to hire a literal battalion of animators. Back to Spriggan, the backgrounds also add a lot to the overall quality, which is another thing your typical series (vs movie) also aren’t going to be able to match. Just the short rooftop scene alone - I can’t imagine the time that went into sketching and painting several hundred roof tiles for a few seconds of footage.
Background artists for these animations back in the day were insane we need more people like them today. These artists were willing to make quality paintings for only 10 frames of animation for a whole movie. Sometimes i like to sit back and count how many paintings are in these movies.
I say this a lot about anime movies before the early 2000s, the fact that these movies exist makes me so sad that we (and new generations) could never get animation like this ever again.
God _damn_ that's some animation. You can certainly see the roto buried somewhere in the work, but it's clear the animators went whole hog on not just translating and emphasizing the character motion, cleaning it for visual accessibility, but managing an immaculate level of awareness in the environment throughout. Peerless.
lol no, no rotoscoping. You guys are underestimating too much the peak to which Japanese animators in the 90s could reach. It is possible that some kind of 3D guide was used in the car chase scene at the beginning of the video, but other than that everything else is obviously hand-drawn without 3D guide. (Although I even doubt it because it's too much "loose"). Rotoscoped animation is too "tight" and easily recognizable to a keen eye (as in most of Disney movies), but these hand-drawn animations inevitably have a strange misalignment and distortion that do not exist in physical movement operated strictly by Newtonian mechanics, and which is what makes them so much pleasing to viewers' eye. In particular, anyone who says that the sword fight scene at the end is rotoscoped is just blind.
@@aolson1111 that's not roto. If you know the guy who animate it (Shinya Ohira) or atleast the way he animate, you'll realize that basically just his normal style due to his high level of draftmanship and unique animating style
The amount of difficulty in finding any other media from the 1998 version, you would not believe. It is infuriating. I can’t find the dvd, I can’t find an mp4, all I get is the shitty Netflix remake related content. Can anyone on gods green earth point me in the direction of where this clip derives from
@@manrick8758ok bet what do I look up on on archive. It’s bullshit that I can’t find the publisher of the actual film or anything but archive is good enough
Every single character in the background is drawn and reacts so realistically. Had to assume they recorded actors on a set then animated the film, it looks so good
It no longer means anything to say that this animation is good by even today's standards. Today's standards are terrible. The golden age of anime is over.
I don’t hate digital as a medium, per se, but with most contemporary anime it’s clear the choice was made in order to cut production time and cost and not because it raises the ceiling on quality or something.
It really is a shame too. I love the aesthetic of these older anime and I wish at least one studio would still produce anime in this older style. I get it's more expensive, but they made money on it back then and they can do it again. Even if they did digital cgi for most shows but had even 1 single show in the older hand drawn cel shaded style.
I think you're incredibly biased. It's not like there aren't standards for animation. It's just that stuff like this takes a while to make even if it's mitigated by out level of technology. Plus, if you look, there are plenty of well-animated anime out there. It's just super easy to say that there aren't any standards for today's anime and that they're terrible. Plus, this is a movie, not single-season anime. Of course it's gonna look better than most shows, it's been given time to have the team put a lot of their effort into it.
Man says this like 85% of 90s animation wasn't just lip flaps over still images. In 20 years when people look back and only ever remember the best animation this era has to offer, they'll say the same thing. Nothing is new under the sun.
Thanks to so many of the greats that watched this and recognized that anime now and then are completely two different things. Damn we miss the good shit
Otomo had nothing to do with this film. This film is an adapatation of the manga spriggan and the visionary masterpiece of Hirotsugu kawasaki. He was actually and animator on akira.
Technically this is peak anime. Lovingly hand drawn and aesthetically beautiful . Its my hope that the knowledge and techniques of this craft is not lost in today's world of CGI and 3D anime.
This is the single greatest quality piece of Japanese animated film I’ve seen outside of select Miyazaki and Akira scenes. I will be buying this film today.
i have never heard of this nor do i know why it was recommended but thank you youtube finally a good recommendation 😂 i have to watch this its just something about older animation 🔥
People out here comparing the best budgets and talent that hand-drawn animation had to offer to the worst modern animation has to offer and calling it a fair comparison. Nah. "Well, it just doesn't look the same", yeah, that's because it isn't. You can make music with a trumpet or a trombone, and they're very similar, but that doesn't make them the same. Like comparing film to digital and practical effects to CGI. It isn't the same, and talented people can make anything look good if they try hard enough.
digitally made animation will never get to the level of hand drawn animation, just not possible. Also nowadays they prefer to make anime too fast, deadlines are too short and animators starve
unbelievably this is not rotoscoping!! it is simply a hand technique!! it was created by Shinji Hashimoto it took him 2 years to complete it. in this day and age to have that kind of work time for animation specifically in one scene is almost unthinkable time is money and nowadays you want to save as much as possible.
TRIVIA:1 ３:00 This technique is "Shinken Shirahadori". It is a "traditional technique" in a sense that has been passed down through the history of various creative works as a fictitious one. And also. It is a "dangerous technique" in a sense to use in such a serious work because it has been frequently used in gag works as something ridiculous. TRIVIA:2 The name of the high school attended by the film's protagonist, Yuu Ominae, is "Shogakukan No. 3 High School". Shogakukan is the publisher of the original manga and is responsible for part of the production of this anime work. There is an elite school in Kyushu with a similar name, "Shogakukan Junior High School," but Spriggan Jr. is not believed to be enrolled there.
in the manga he used a fruit or vegetable from a street stand, minus the whole chasing scene still pretty awesome, imagine a piece of art surveillance device broken from a apple throwed at mach speed from a japanese kid
@John Smith Ritterhaus Oromo was the chief supervisor for the movie, not the director nor the animator of this scene. This scene was mostly animated by Shinji Hashimoto. It’s not rotoscoped but iirc it took him 2 years to finish that scene.
How do you know it's not? It very well could have been. Animators use live action references all the time, even Disney animators do it for their cartoony stuff, so it's not out of the realm of possibilities that Japanese Animators would do it too. It's not impossible to create such naturally flowing and realistic movements in hand drawn animation, but having the scene played out by stunt coordinators or even the animators themselves filming a rough version of the chase sequence while they ran around the office is totally a possibility.
@@dbzispimpin but japanese animators like Shinya Ohira, Takeshi Honda, Yutaka Nakamura, Shinji Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Okiura and Toshiyuki Inoue, etc. can do possible realistic animation without the use of reference and rotoscoping, Japanese animation is different in terms of handling douga, key frames and how they draw their genga
Not just animation but amount of detail they put in the city is amazing. If you were to actually shoot a movie in the same place you'd get %100 same scenes with details. Streets, buildings, people, cars everything looks as close as animation can resemble real thing
1:49 Holy crap, that's a Sterling submachine gun! It was the standard issue machine gun for British armed forces until 1994, it's still used in some countries as well, such as Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Cypres, Jamaica and many others. It's probably most famous for being the used to make the weapons of the original star wars films.
It such a well animated film that the new series couldn’t beat. I also love how the chase scene has similar scenes to Bourne Films. Especially that leaping shot through a window. Think people involved with Bourne films saw this
Look how smooth characters move. Some effect and camerawork were really improved throughout studying from movies over years until today, but this smoothness with hand drawn is definitely what they have lost today.
@@aolson1111 Nope. A large chunk of these cuts were animated by Shinji Hashimoto (a legend who worked on Akira, GitS, Perfect Blue and tons of Ghibli movies), who is known for his realistic and spontaneous style. He - and some animators like Mitsuo Iso, Hiroyuki Okiura, Shinya Ohira, etc - belong to what some would call 'the realist school', a movement that was prominent in late 80s and 90s, which prioritized naturalistic and realistic expressions and movements in japanese animation. An example of this trend (almost gone nowadays) was the movie Jin-Roh - quite possibly the pinnacle of the 'realist school'. Hashimoto's style may be heavily referenced sometimes, but his cuts (and this movie as a whole and also other 90s productions) are far from being that rotoscoped as some may suggest.
Actually inspired all action pans in the MATRIX. This was the first time a roof jump was followed not as a zoom but a following camera . . . insane that this is an animation and 1998.
