Favourite Animator's Expo shorts so far?
This reminds me to catch up! I haven't watched in a couple weeks. The ones I liked best:
Me! Me! Me!: polemics aside, it's one of the most well-conceived shorts in the collection. An ingenious core idea of otaku being consumed by their objects of lust conceived through a spectacle of vibrant colors, webgen animation, shocking imagery and a catchy song
20 min Walk...: the Tom and Jerry spin on Kafka is neat, but the main draw is definitely the incredible animation by legendary guys like Ohira, Okiura, Inoue and Honda
Tomorrow from There: Akemi Hayashi is one of my favorite up-and-coming directors in the industry. Her particular talent in presenting simple stories in emotionally powerful and sincere ways, and this short is a good showcase of that, by presenting the female protagonist's emotional journey entirely through the visuals. Chieko Nakamura's backgrounds are excellent too
Kanon: a really weird one, but the highly eccentric concept, nonstop narration and rough visuals made for an interesting watch
Sex and Violence with Machspeed: one of my favorite Imaishi things. He can be uneven, but when at his most unrestrained his stuff is really energetic, irreverent and fun. Great use of Kanada-style limited animation
I can Friday by Day!: I loved this one! Hilarious and out-there coming of age story with gorgeous visuals; in other words, Gainax is back. Give us more Tsurumaki, please!
Either way, I'd say pretty much all of the shorts are worth watching at least once. The only ones I actively disliked were Evangelion: Another Impact (Anno pls stop) and Boys Invent Great Hero (neither tokusatsu nor Amemiya's animation are my kind of thing at all)
Me! Me! Me!: polemics aside, it's one of the most well-conceived shorts in the collection. An ingenious core idea of otaku being consumed by their objects of lust conceived through a spectacle of vibrant colors, webgen animation, shocking imagery and a catchy song
20 min Walk...: the Tom and Jerry spin on Kafka is neat, but the main draw is definitely the incredible animation by legendary guys like Ohira, Okiura, Inoue and Honda
Tomorrow from There: Akemi Hayashi is one of my favorite up-and-coming directors in the industry. Her particular talent in presenting simple stories in emotionally powerful and sincere ways, and this short is a good showcase of that, by presenting the female protagonist's emotional journey entirely through the visuals. Chieko Nakamura's backgrounds are excellent too
Kanon: a really weird one, but the highly eccentric concept, nonstop narration and rough visuals made for an interesting watch
Sex and Violence with Machspeed: one of my favorite Imaishi things. He can be uneven, but when at his most unrestrained his stuff is really energetic, irreverent and fun. Great use of Kanada-style limited animation
I can Friday by Day!: I loved this one! Hilarious and out-there coming of age story with gorgeous visuals; in other words, Gainax is back. Give us more Tsurumaki, please!
Either way, I'd say pretty much all of the shorts are worth watching at least once. The only ones I actively disliked were Evangelion: Another Impact (Anno pls stop) and Boys Invent Great Hero (neither tokusatsu nor Amemiya's animation are my kind of thing at all)
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DDK