Kowabon Episode 1 Discussion

Lockensocke said:
Her running around the corner had crappy cgi backgrounds which moves in a different speed than her and the whole scene doesn’t look realistically because a person doesn’t move with the same constant speed, after the feet hit the ground you become shortly slower, because of friction and then you accelerate. They faked it on her because she bounces, but you can see that on the background, that’s why the whole scene looks fake. Also the angle in which she runs around the corner looks slightly fake. Also what happened to the guy with the green shirt, he suddenly is torn out of the picture.
Then we come to lightning. This is the worst part. Despite having multiple light sources (cars, stars, light reflection on the surface of the water, street lights, etc.) she has hard edged shadows on her even though only slight edge shadows should appear. And her shadows only consist of 3 different colors (ok, many works only have 3 layers). Also you see that she does not project any shadow on the ground and the shadows projected for example from the pillar changes the direction from second 2 to second 5.

stuntddude said:

You're stupid if you think anyone could take this seriously. Are you actually complaining that a character is not visibly lit by the moonlight bouncing off the water tens of meters below them? This is hand-drawn animation, not physically based 3D ray traced rendering. She's lit correctly by the street lights and the soft ambient light from the sky and city, which are the only two sources that matter in the scene (since headlights don't reach her past the bushes).

Bouncing a character is not "faking it", it's an application of basic animation principles. The camera is moving smoothly at a constant speed, but she's not - she's running on two feet, so each step causes her to bounce slightly in frame. As for "crappy cgi backgrounds" (by the way - yes, it moves at a different speed, that's parallax for you), I can immediately tell you're the kind of person who will complain about absolutely any use of CG in anime no matter how well it's done.

TheBigGuy said:
They really messed this up. Using rotoscoping is a bad idea ( didn't they learn from Aku no Hana? ) and 3 minutes per episode isn't enough to tell a good horror story ( same mistake Pupa made ). And as for the webcam, I thought,oh god, it's Paranormal Activity all over again.
To summarize: they combined the worst from Aku no Hana and Pupa with the boringness of Paranormal Activity.

jakov said:


Rotoscope makes Aku no Hana (one of) best Anime I've ever seen! So TheBigGuy, you're totally off with your critique! You know - animators are using different styles, and many people thinks, me included, that this is good, not bad! Some likes it, some don't - if you're among latter just don't watch Anime made in rotoscope technique!!! It's simple as that!