| 1. Webgen: Popular term to refer to mostly young digital animators whom joined the industry late and drawing on an digital devices. They gain attention by gifs and fanmade animation. 2. Impact frames : stylized drawings hidden within sequences to give extra impact. This is how the transition looks   Source: https://sakugabooru.com/post/show/216609 4. Sakuga : Drawn pictures, in the west it's refered to very good animation sequence. Has multiple variations of it like sakuga action https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/206713 sakuga character acting https://sakugabooru.com/post/show/291217 sakuga effects https://sakugabooru.com/post/show/291514 and more. 5. Series composition: Key role given to the main writer, they meet with the director (whom has higher position than them) during pre production in order to draft the concept of the series, major events, and how to pace all of it. 6. Color Designer: The person whom decide to decide and establish show's color palette, each episode has their own color coordinator, supervising and suplying painters with the model paritcular outing requires, they may take it themselves if they are tones that weren't defined by the color designer. For example, that's how they decided to use the color palette for jojo bizarre adventure anime which is very famous for multiple color palette changes,  7. Art Director: Person in charge of the background art. They drew many artboards in which when aproved by the series director, they serve as a refrence for the backgrounds throught the series. Coordination within the art department is a must setting and color designers must work together with them in order to create coherent world. Background art example:  8. Outsorcing: Process of subcontracting part of the work to other studios, partially outscorsed to handle things like key animation, coloring, backgrounds, but most anime has instances of full outsorcing in which entire episode is produced entirely by different studio and staff. 9. Layouts: The drawings where animations are born, they are expanded usually from simple visual ideas from storyboard in to actual skeleton of the animation e.g this is how the layout of shin samurai yaiba scene looks source: https://sakugabooru.com/post/show/291579  10. 2nd key animation: It's clean up role process appearing when the work of key animator is very rough, unpolished or flat. Ranges from tyding up to drawing secondary elements in which key animator couldn't afford to draw. 11. Production assistant: Lowest ranking producer and it's still very essential part to the enviroment. They check and carrying materials, and contacts many artists in order to get the episode finished. 12. Photography: The marriage of elements produced by different departments into a finished picture, involves filtering to make it more harmonius. For example : Pre  post Pre  Post  13. Chief Animation Directors: Credit usually associated with character designer, however as of late messy projects multiple chief ADs have increasead in number, even more than the regular animation directors, their job is to ensure how the characters look. Consistency is their goal. 14. In betweens: Filling the gaps left by the key animators and completing the animation. The genga is traced and fully cleaned up if it hadn't been then the missing frames are drawn following notes for timing and spacing. 15. Key animation: these artists draws importants moments within the animation, defining the motion without completing the cut. Animation industry of Japan is very well known for giving freedoom to these key animators how they want to do it with their own style. 16. Series director: Person in charge of the production basically heart and soul of the project, serves as both creative decision-maker and final supervision. 17. FX: effects animation, water/firebeam so on and so forth. 18. Animation Direction: artists supervising the quality and the consistency of animation as a whole. They may correct cuts in which deviates from the too much if they decide so, but usually their job is to ensure motion is up to par while not looking too rough. Multiple animation directors roles exists e.g, mecha, effects, creatures etc. 19. Episode direction: creative but also coordinative task as it supervises many departments and artists involved in the production of an episode. Aproving animation layouts alongside animation director, overseeing the work of the photography team, art department, cg staff etc. 20. Storyboard: Bluepring of animation, series of simple drawings serves as anime's visual script, drawn on special sheet with fields for the animation cut number, notes for the staff and the matching lines of dialogue. This is how the storyboard usually looks source: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/290142  21. Sound director: Person whom oversees all audio aspects of an anime series. Sources : https://blog.sakugabooru.com/glossary/ |
jacobPOLYesterday, 11:30 AM
| Very useful anime industry terminology to know. |
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@tchitchouan I recommend website https://blog.sakugabooru.com/ in which discuss anime behind the scenes, how they are created and has a lot of interviews with the staff of the anime.
Also I recommend sakugabooru in which it is perfect webstite to study animation, multiple variations of it and also studying animator's animation style pattern, in order to find the anime on sakugabooru do _insert anime name_ sakugabooru on google and this is how the website looks https://sakugabooru.com/post?tags=one_piece
Also I recommend sakugabooru in which it is perfect webstite to study animation, multiple variations of it and also studying animator's animation style pattern, in order to find the anime on sakugabooru do _insert anime name_ sakugabooru on google and this is how the website looks https://sakugabooru.com/post?tags=one_piece
| @jacobPOL Thanks, i'll check them out. |
| That's very useful and interesting information. |
| Imagine how boring this world would be without Japan - a comment at youtube |
| Sound director is undermentioned. |
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| I've been watching Shirobako for the first time recently, so this post is very appreciated. |
| Wow, I will admit I only skimmed a little bit through this. But you posted some fascinating stuff here. My brain, my brain is on fire I think! @_@ |
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jacobPOL said: Sound director: Person whom oversees all audio aspects of an anime series. Objectively a very important role. The soundscape of any piece of media can completely alter how it feels. Neat thread, by the way! I really like seeing storyboards. I made some gifs from a behind the scenes video from Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash, it's a genuinely beautiful anime, really neat to see this sort of thing.   |
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| Nice forum. Was #12 for the bird guy from op example supposed to be the term "compositing"?? |
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jacobPOL said:
Sound director: Person whom oversees all audio aspects of an anime series.
Sound director: Person whom oversees all audio aspects of an anime series.
Objectively a very important role. The soundscape of any piece of media can completely alter how it feels.
Neat thread, by the way! I really like seeing storyboards. I made some gifs from a behind the scenes video from Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash, it's a genuinely beautiful anime, really neat to see this sort of thing.
@CC Since you like storyboards, here are the storyboards of the higly prodigy Megumi Ishitani, these storyboards like these are very uncomonon and she's doing like these at the age of 30 and having very fresh career as an director.    Sources: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/159193 https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/181649 https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/159194 https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/218014 |
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