Narrated by none other, Shiny Chariot herself edit: And of course, this is about the first OVA, not the 2017 TV series. Title: How the Magic Was Created - Little Witch Academia Work Log Taken from Nyaa
Soft Boiled It's quite the opposite, though. Art teachers want their students to learn many _different_ artistic styles from around the world. They want students to understand the basics of art before they start distorting it. You know what they say: _You gotta learn the rules before you can break them._
EdgerOG You never see teachers correcting someone when they draw American cartoon though, which is ridiculous if they're supposed to teach "realism first". "Rules" can change too, you'd be wrong thinking that American school method is used in China or Russia. And last but not least, it is absurd to teach one very specific school of realism for 4 years to people who is into this because they wanted to draw Kenshin/Naruto or whatever in the first place, and it's something that's managing to make thousands of students quit on a regular basis. It's specially ridiculous when manga schools in Japan start drawing manga and as you can see students are fine.
To be fair some of the animators come up as arrogant. Surely they were young, but getting upset because the director changed your scene is pretty egoistical, specially since the whole project revolves around youngsters LEARNING. It's funny, in retrospect, how Ursula VA was the one motivating them on the auditions. They are all a bunch of Akko's are not? Trust Chariot to cheer them up.
Sans Nom I don’t think they were upset about the changes, but more upset by the fact that they messed up. None of the animators really felt arrogant to me while they were working and they all seemed to look up to Yoshinari and accepted the fact that they had mistakes and revised their original drawings based on Yoshinari’s advise and corrections.
i just love how all of the animators look like they are dying inside. as a fellow animator, this is 100% true. sleepless nights, dreams of your animation and those people on the bus staring into space? yep, an animator trying to figure out the position of over 20 different characters in one shot
Digging into what it takes to produce art, made me appreciate comics / web comics and manga much more. Because for example: Where you usually go over a web comic panel in 3 seconds, the artist may have worked for like 2-6 hours on that particular image...
So Japan better backs to 30-40 animes each year. That may be better for the Production and animators. But that may not be the case for the recent anime industry.
i studied animation at university and after discovering just how miserable and exhausting and relentless the work was going to be, I went into concept art. Man, fuuuck this. I'm so impressed by animators that can work like this for a living, because I couldn't.
It was an outstanding making of! To think the marvelous first animation of Little Witch Academia was made by 9 animators (being 5 newcomers). I can feel all the passion and how great is the film's flow. My sincere thanks to all the Trigger staff!
The best part is at 51:53 when the narrator (voice actor of the cool teacher) gives the 5 young key animators a little speech on how she hopes they continue on with their lives. It's really beautiful to see these artist go through the ringer in this OVA. It really is a TOP example of how to do anime right. Watching this documentary, I bet these artists got the equivalent training of being key animators for 3 years on various shows from just 6 months on one 24 min special. Their work and perseverance led to this incredible fantasy to turn into a feature length OVA and a two season series afterwards. I imagine that anyone bothering to read this comment has already seen it all, but if you haven't, it's truly astounding how good the animation is in each evolution of this fantasy story. The series runs at about 90% of the quality of the first OVA, but even that is still at least double the quality of the average anime released in 2017, and that holds true through to today. That just speaks to how incredibly well animated and coloured this one OVA is. The second feature length OVA also seems to be at the same super high level of animation, but it's been a few years since I've seen it in its entirety. Full disclosure, I run a very small animation night once a month where I showcase a different work of animation and watch it together online with friends. We hang out a bit before and discuss the movie afterwards and it's fun. About 75% of the films I showcase are from Japan, but there are incredible works from Ireland, France, Spain, America and elsewhere that shine in the 25%. This is the first time I ever mention this community outside of my friend group, but respond here and hit me up if you want to enjoy the beauty of animation with us. I'm located in eastern Canada (location is important, because my friends from western Canada and the UK are +3 hours and -6 hours away respectively, haha). Dang, this documentary is cool. I'm watching it while doing research before I show the October, Halloween edition, of Animation Night. Cheers, friendos.
Hello... I would really like to join such an event! I've been trying to expand my own animation knowledge and find communities, so it is very nice to hear you guys also touch upon works outside of Japan. I'm in EST timezone, which I think is the same as eastern Canada
I would like to join :D I have such a fire like love for animation. Not sure how to describe how much I love it because it's not easy to describe. I guess it's passion? I want to be able to work like this. Many may see it as "depressing or miserable" which, that is a part of it. But they're doing what they love and that's why they keep going. I want to work on Japanese anime as well. Creatively fulfilling animation in general. My family advise me not to, but if there is a will, there's a way.
I remember when I watched the LWA short films I was shocked by how good the animation quality was. These people really put blood sweat and tears into this project and it shows. I really hope they're proud of their work!
21:18 a nine-hour job for something that appears for only 5 seconds. wow, the level of dedication is unreal!! and that's only a static background. animating must take a hell of a lot more time.
Wow, This was amazing! I've been so ignorant about certain scenes from animation that I thought were average and had no idea about the magic that goes on behind the screen and all the grueling effort that gets put into it... I'm so glad you were able to upload this video, very informative and entertaining! It makes me really appreciate the anime industry and all the little cogs that turn together to produce a piece of art! :)
Sakamoto seems clinically depressed by the end of the project. In the scene where they rummage through his trashcan he almost looks like he's crying. I hope he ended up doing better.
Despite being pretty depressing because of the environment, pay and tireless hours, this documentary is very interesting. as someone wanting to get into animation myself, I really enjoy watching the process (even though it feels like the magic is stripped from what's made, when you realize all of your favorite shows were made in the same office with the same bright LEDs under the same conditions)
Going back on this is pretty cool as most of the new animators that were followed in this Documentary now have extensive portfolios with many of them taking on senior roles such as Character Designer, CAD and Episode Director in different shows. I believe one or two of them were in senior roles for episodes of the Cyberpunk Edgerunners show
After watching this I also went to check out their other works and whether they stuck it out after this (and by extension whether this initiative worked in terms of helping the new talent get integrated into the industry) and if they participated in the following entries in the LWA franchise, and I was actually very pleasantly surprised on all counts! A few of them had a hand in making some of my favorite shows of all time too, even if it was only for like one or two episodes, which was really cool to see! This program was responsible for birthing not only LWA, but also Death Parade in this same year, and it appears to not be the only project that got turned into a full series after that, so it seems like it's generally a really good program in terms of creating interesting anime as well!
I never actually noticed it before but at 7:54, you could see Diana in the audience (or who appears to be Diana) which confirms that she's also a Chariot fan.
Immense amount of respect for all involved in creating anime. From the animators, art directors, PM's, composers, camera directors.. Its insane how much work goes into creating these masterpieces. Working endless ours to ensure the final product is immaculate for so little pay - Trainee animators at least.
Seems like the program worked. They all have continued to work in the anime industry. Some also worked on director Yoshinari’s latest hit project Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
im jealous of these people. they get to spend all their time hanging out with other creatives and get to talk art with them casually. all friends ive ever had have always been consumers and gamers. i cant seem to find any creative friends or environments :/
That poor guy is a rookie and he got the opening sequence to do, which includes transformations, fireworks, stage dance and various poses. No wonder he's almost killing himself at the ending of the process. Also 51:55 - DOKI DOKI NO WAKU WAKU
i watched the whole thing , anime is not the same thing for me anymore and i discoverd that i truly like animation , i mean i'm dying for animation ,but i just have a little potential at drawing. i will work hard , because they're professionnal and they work more than anyone . also i always though that animation needs a tablet , but with this "making of" i knew that i was wrong, before the tablet there's a pencil and a paper. i learned a lot with this making of , thank you so much.
I always come back to this when I'm feeling burnt out or lack of inspiration from my own work. Animation is brutal and amazing. Though I don't appreciate the constants in japan. I appreciate the team effort and skills they have.
I know the feeling, being the one with most experience, you're working AND training the new hires at the same time, this guy is training ALL 5 of them on top of his work load
I wish I had the courage to do animation, but I knew for awhile that the work was going to be tough. I settled studying comic arts and illustrations, but would love to still learn more about animating. Good for them! :)
A lot of people view it like that, but if you ask an animator that has worked on these, it's sort of the reason why they're able to create such amazing animation. Because they work insanely hard. It's not really a job that anyone is willing to take. But these people love what they do. I wish they were paid well.
59:25 with the wastepaper part the amout of presssure he get into it and the worst of it his pride plays a big part like a perfectionnist i wanna slap him those "trash paper" i would give money to buy it he just don't know how much valuable this is now today
Wow I was in a deep depression Now I'm so chill and happy Finally I understand how great my life was till now Anyway feel sad for them they really look tired But I hoped somehow one of them find his way to make his dream manga or anime because they really know how to draw
This might interest you. Henry Thurlow is an American that works in a Japanese animation studio. It's a Buzzfeed article, so take it for what it's worth, but it has links to the Reddit AMA he did, his Tumblr, etc.: www.buzzfeed.com/danmeth/this-american-is-one-of-the-only-non-japanese-working-in-ani?.sr0O1NeyN#.aqEoJ5eQ5 He said the following on the Reddit AMA concerning the puzzling bit on wage that was in the Buzzfeed article (the dollar amounts are US dollar equivalents of his Japanese wage): The “as low as $100 a month” in the Buzzfeed article referred to my first couple months at Nakamura-pro. After that it was about $300 a month, until I came to Pierrot, which has been around $1000 a month.
I've uploaded my first anime two days ago. It's highly detailed, almost real life, took over a month to make(with a lot of holidays and artblock😅) But the scenes were less. It's 14 minutes long. That was just the pilot episode of the series. Now I am just trying to learn more for better future episodes... Btw, it's First Indian Anime-ish Web Series. "Kalakriti Studios: The Amateur Days"